Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!celia!neil From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders Message-ID: <981@celia.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 91 18:38:08 GMT References: <469@tlvx.UUCP> <14124@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood Lines: 42 In article <14124@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ignatz@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60189000) writes: > >pencil test system. Here's the scoop -- I have an amiga 500 which Ive >been playing around with for computer animation. Im wondering--can anyone >tell me a way to connect a video digitizer to it, which could digitize >each drawing (from paper via video camera) and store it in the computer >in such a way that I can flip say 30 pages? I do not need color, or sharp >resolution (low res would be fine) because this is just pencil testing >and only the motion is important. Being that Im not the most knoweledgable >person when it comes to the Amiga Im asking that some of you Amiga >genuises help me out. You have several alternatives. I use Digiview to scan in animation drawings. Get the Panasonic 1410 camera to go with. I have a borrowed color Hitatchi camera and I don't get good scans. Get a copy stand with good lights. If you do this, you will get images that will require little cleanup. If you are doing tests only, use lo-res, because you will need all the memory you can get on your 500. Digiview has a function that will output in 16color black and white. If you get good scans you could go lower, but I have found that I get an antialiased line with the 16 color mode. Next, I use Dpaint III. I set up the number of frames I want in DPaint III and then read a scanned frame into each frame. Set the rate to what you want, 24 or 30 fps and bingo! Animation. I often cleanup and color my tests on the machine. The next thing I want to do, is see how I can use these animations with DCTV. I think you could turn them into high quality animations in DCTV Paint and turn them into 24 bit animations. The nice thing about DCTV is it resides outside the Amiga and uses the memory of the Amiga for program, I think. I have heard that it is sluggish on stock Amigas, excluding the A3000. But mostly, I want to use it to enhance the quality of my animations before I shoot them to film. Good luck. neil -- Only 3188 shopping days left till the next millenium! Neil F. Richmond INTERNET: celia!neil@usc.edu Rhythm & Hues Inc. UUCP: ...{ames,hplabs}!lll-tis!celia!neil)