Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!headgw!cvgw!yamanaka From: yamanaka@cv.sony.co.jp (Brian Yamanaka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 04:31:51 GMT Sender: news@cv.sony.co.jp (Usenet News System) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Organization: Sony Corporation, Consumer Video Group Lines: 34 In article <5256@mindlink.UUCP> Ken_Cooper@mindlink.UUCP (Ken Cooper) writes: | |Brian YAMANAKA writes: | |(Personally I'm waiting for digital recording to become available on the |Amiga) | |--------- | |So this means D1 or D2 format (or somesuch), which then puts us back to |thorough-bred prices :) I'm not talking about D1 or D2 but direct recording to hard disk as shown by Super Mac at MacWorld. This method uses high speed hard drives and JPEG compression to get full-motion video at 24 fps. Of course this isn't 30 fps, but 24 fps is what the motion picture industry uses. Having the video stored on hard disk allows editing to be done at the frame level digitally withou generation loss. For single frame animation this seems to be the best answer. JPEG hardware is not that difficult to make and as hard drive capacities continue to grow and prices continue to fall, this may be just the answer. Of course then the Amiga would need 24 bit color capability (which is already becoming available) and a willing manufacturer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian YAMANAKA (aka The VISCA dude) |"I knew I should have made that Sony Corporation, Personal Video Group | left turn at Albuquerque." Email: yamanaka@cv.sony.co.jp | -Bugs Bunny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------