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From: ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: video controller
Message-ID: <2592@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Mar-87 10:47:03 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2592
Posted: Sat Mar 14 10:47:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Mar-87 08:13:37 EST
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Reply-To: ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: frame by frame, video, single frame, ray tracing

<<<<<<<<<<<<go ahead... eat my bits>>>>>>>>>>>>


I just found out about a neat gadget! It's called a video control sequencer,
or just a video sequencer. It allows you to record frame by frame on a VCR.
On one end you plug in the video out from the Amiga (or any video signal)
and on the other end the video in for a VCR. The Amiga controls the sequencer
via the serial port.
	The computer can take it's time drawing a frame, and then it sends
the go-ahead over the serial port. The sequencer will put the current picture
coming over onto tape.
	When I first started using the sequencer I assumed it was a very
expensive device, but I have just found out it was $400. That's not too bad
considering that an Amiga ($1200) DW_Render (a few dollars or free depending
on your morals and finances) the ray-tracer by Dave Wecker, a VCR ($250), and
some blank tapes makes you into a computer graphics effects video lab.
	Right now I'm using the sequencer on an IBM PC, and it's potential
is really wasted! I'd love to take it home for a weekend!!!!

	-Pete Theobald

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