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From: tn0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Edgar Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Slides to Video
Message-ID: <Ubsz3qG00WBKA1=6Ns@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 22:43:02 GMT
Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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A Laser Disc I'm working on is going to include many (~3000) still
images from slides.  We have been using a slide-to-video unit on loan
from the mnfg and they want it back now.  We would buy it (I can't
remember the name of it just now) but it only only has 320 lines of
horizontal resolution. For a LD, and for potential use with a S-VHS or
3/4" video system, 320 lines would be a serious limiting factor in final
quality.

Question: Has anyone out there converted slides to video tape themselves
(i.e. not sent it to a production house or service bureau to be done). 
What sort of equipment did you use?  How long did it take to do X-number
of slides?  How was the quality (problems w/ contrast, etc)?

Thanks in advance.
-Tom Nichols
tn0o@andrew.cmu.edu