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From: steve@bambi.UUCP (Steve Miller)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: Question: Single frame recording
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 13:53:18 EST
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>>>>I would like to know what hardware is (minimally) required
>>>>to record one frame at a time on 3/4" tape.  

>>> Unfortunately, 3/4" machines were not designed for single frame editing.

>1"C machine... sits on the tape for the next
>frame.  None of this shuttling the tape back and forth.  A true single frame
>recorder, which is what I believe the original poster wanted.

To clarify:  A pre-roll is OK with me.  The manual with the Sony BVU-820
(a professional 3/4" machine, weighing in at about $18,000) says that
its built-in editting controller is good to +/- 1 frame.  In practice,
it has worked to zero frame reliably, though I haven't seen any animation
produced this way; just sequences of single frame edits.  Also, though
it is able to accept time code as an option, these edits were done
with the editting controller just counting frames.  What I'm hoping for
is that someone will tell me they've been able to do this for under
$10,000.

		-Steve Miller ihnp4!bambi!steve