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From: baer@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren at Siggraph/JPL 3/12/91
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.181953.2955@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:19:53 GMT
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In article <8026@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>In article <61813@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>>In article <7989@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>>>So he took an S-VHS camera and himself into a dark room at his
>>>house and photographed himself eight times singing the song. The 
>>>frames from the camera were then digitized and mapped, in LightWave,
>>The method that comes to mind to me would be to play back the video on
>>a good industrial or better VCR capable of good quality single frame playback
>>and frame grab the images one at a time with the Toaster. This is very
>>tedious though.

> He framegrabbed his image from
>the S-VHS tape with the Toaster's software.
>Harv Laser                                      {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser
>"Park and lock it.  Not responsible."           People/Link: CBM*HARV

I don't think he digitized direct from the S-VHS tape.  If I understood
Allen Hasting's descripion (on a PLink conference), Todd recorded video
of him singing on S-VHS, then transfered that to his LaserDisc recorder.
He then hooked a cable from his Amiga to the LD player, and ran a routine
that advanced the disc by 1 frame (or maybe 2), and captured it in the
Toaster's buffer.  You could set up the whole process with AmigaVision
and AREXX.  But, I do believe that the laserdisc recorder/player played
an integral role in this process.  Otherwise is would have been VERY
difficult to automate it.  Had he done the process by hand, he would
likely have ended up in a room with rubber wallpaper :-).


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