Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders Summary: Recording Animations Message-ID: <469@tlvx.UUCP> Date: 1 Apr 91 06:02:30 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida Lines: 49 In article , yamanaka@cv.sony.co.jp (Brian Yamanaka) writes: ..... > Currently single frame recording is seen as a fad. Video tape > technology may not be the best solution, and will be replaced by > digital recording directly to hard disk (using some sort of > compression). By storing the animation to disk it is easier to edit > with guaranteed accuracy. Of course the final animation would be then > recorded to video for distribution. > If I create animations of several seconds or more in length, how easy would it be to record them as one long animation? I've seen that VCR's with the jog-shuttles are coming down in price; I ask the salesmen how it works for editing, and they don't seem to clear on the specifics. :-) I mean, they explain that it's for frame-accuracy "for use in editing," but what good is that accuracy if you can't record? Could you record them, but there'd be some sort of artifact inbetween the segments? I'm afraid someone will have to go into a bit of detail on how you would edit (with 2 decks?). (Currently I have a cheapo VHS VCR without much capability.) I would like to get a new VCR one of these days anyway (in order to get the Stereo HI-FI), and might as well try to get something that would be good for this sort of thing, if at all possible. (I know, just wait until we have better compression and can simply play the whole thing from the hard drive at once! Wait, I need to get a hard drive.... :-) ) > Of course this is strictly my own opinion (and would probably surprise > my employers). Why would it surprise them? > Personally I would love a deck which could do > "animation preview" and I will keep this in mind when discussing such > issues. I wish I could promise more than that, but I want to keep my job. > .... > Best regards, > Brian > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS // Amiga! ..uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop, unf7!tlvx!sysop@bikini.cis.ufl.edu \X/ Yeah!