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From: dave@pluto.dss.com (Dave Monachello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: re: video digitizing
Keywords: video digitizing, xapshot, dctv
Message-ID: <4342@pluto.dss.com>
Date: 21 May 91 23:10:20 GMT
Organization: Datability Software Systems, New York, NY
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Hi,
 Alot of people have asked me about this. I'm not an expert in photography or
video but I think that the xapshot and dctv is a good low priced portable
digitizing solution. I can't seem to find the stats for the ccd res for the 
xapshot, but I know the sony mavica is higher and also works with dctv.
 
 The dctv slow scan digitizer will take any fairly stable composite video
input. The setup is simple just take the composit output from the xapshot 
adapter into the video in of the dctv and use the dctv scan function. 
dctv has some limited image processing software but it can save the image
in any standard amiga format, including iff24, so that it can be used 
elsewhere. DCTV can also output in their own format which produces a pretty
good NTSC image. The great trick is that these files can be animated using
standard amiga animation programs (but that a whole different topic).

	later,
		dave