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From: Scott_Busse@mindlink.UUCP (Scott Busse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Single Frame recorders
Message-ID: <5487@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 91 05:52:13 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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>> John T. Grieggs writes:
>> "My gut feeling is that what I want to do is achievable, but whether
>>  is it easy or requires some extra hardware or horrible kludge, I
>>  don't know."
Unfortunately, I have found it to be quite tedious to do frame accurate
recording on a deck without a pre-roll function, and absolute frame accurate
editing capabilities. At one time I experimented with the Sony super-beta model
??-1000, which was pretty hot for a comsumer deck, but left me doing everything
manually. I went about recording a couple minutes of the info channel on cable
TV to get a second:tenth/second count on the tape, and then measured how many
frames the deck pre-rolled when I went from playback/jog/pause to record mode.
It turned out to be 9 frames, 8 time out of ten. From there I manually tried
assembling a single frame animation. It worked, but 2 times out of ten (on
average) I had to redo a frame. On top of that, if there isn't a great deal of
difference between the two adjacent images, it gets hard to tell just where the
next edit point is. Tough job. I don't recommend it :)
  What you may want to look into is something like the Future video
controllers, which I have heard are compatible with many consumer decks. I
don't have any solid info on that though, sorry.
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