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From: eachus@largo.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Genlock or something.
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Date: 31 May 91 21:17:06 GMT
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In article <1991May31.141424.5268@rice.edu> adam@boreal.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:

   What's the best--that is, cheapest-- way to turn Mac II video output into
   an NTSC signal.

   If all you need is B/W, buy an Amiga, AMaxII, and a good GenLock.
For some purposes you won't need the genlock. (If you need color,
check on the latest release of AMaxII.  The Amiga is color, and it
should be possible to do Mac color, but the Mac ROMs I used didn't
support color...)  Since the Amiga output (even when running Mac
software) is already NTSC compatible, you are way ahead of the game,
and if you need to demo Mac software over a standard video system the
whole setup can cost less than $2000.

    Also, if money is no object, but video quality is, you can buy an
Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster from NewTek as a Mac peripheral (for
about $4000) which should give you a production quality image, but I
don't know how easy it is to pump the Mac images through the Toaster.

   Flame avoidance: This is a serious post, and yes this does work
very well especially for classroom type settings.  There are cases
where I would recommend Macs, but never in situations where you need a
quality NTSC signal.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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