Path: utzoo!utgpu!utorvm!ryerson!acps1072
Date: Wednesday, 15 May 1991 00:41:24 EST
From: ACPS1072@RYERSON <ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Message-ID: <91135.004124ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: video digitizing
References: <1991May7.155233.11899@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
 <12970@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>

More on the DigiView...

  To add to the said stuff about DigiView (for scanning pictures using
a black and white Camera, the color wheel, etc.)  You can also buy a
Color Splitter for about $250 CAN which splits the and composite color
signal into the R, G and B components.  This is useful if you want to
grab a picture from video (like a cartoon off videotape or laserdisc), the
only catch is that your video source has to have a good freeze frame option.
(ie.  you can't capture images while they are moving).

  Another problem is that most VCRs can only pause for a few minutes which
may not be enought time to digiview in the images (red, green, and blue)
depending on the resolution and scan rate you are working with.

As for programming in C....  Both DCTV and DigiView DO NOT come with
any programming documentation.  However you can make you own digitizer
if you have the time and skills...  check out the Amazing Computing
TECH magazines volume one, issues one and two - "the VidCell".  Issue one
has the actual article and issue two has the bug fixes for issue one.


Derek Lang<<<<<    |
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