Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a708
From: Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders
Message-ID: <4989@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:45:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Lines: 15

Too bad... Technically it shouldn't cost much to add single frame capability,
but they always seem to soak ya for it. Any video deck capable of a flying
erase head insert edit is accurate enough to splice in a frame of video, but
they all lack the timecode and timing electronics. (I have seen a timecode
reader chip that sells for 10 - 20 bucks..) I think the real problem is the
lack of a real market for a single frame deck.. you don't need single frame for
anything but animation, so why spend the extra bucks. To back up my claim that
it should be cheaper, my $1200.00 pentax 8 mm deck has an 'animation' mode that
allows me to do 4 frame assemble edits at every push of the record button. (8
fields) This is ok for mucking about with claymation, but this gives you only
30/4 = 7.5 frames a second, which looks fairly jerky. Not much farther to go to
cause the thing to do 2 field edits, mind you, you have to start dealing with
color frame problems......

Gord Wait