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From: spencer@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: video controller
Message-ID: <2836@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 19:29:04 EST
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Keywords: frame by frame, video, single frame, ray tracing

In article <1806@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
>You've been using this device?  I was led to believe that only very
>expensive VCRs would allow single-frame recording with decent quality.
>Questions: How stable is the resulting video image with respect to waver,
>noise bars, etc, when played back at normal speed?  What technology
>(VHS, Beta, etc) and make and model VCR are you using?  How does the
>video sequencer interface with the VCR controls for record, stop, etc?
>What do you get inside this $400 box?  Who sells it?
>
>	Thanks,
>	Charles Poirier

I haven't seen this, but I would be interested in it.  The guys at Aegis
are still doing it by hand.  They had some new stuff from that Alan
Hastings 3D animation package. He is using an 8mm VCR (stepping up from
8mm film) to capture the stuff.  It does about 4 frames at a time, but
it is clean.  When he played it through he rewound it and played it at
double speed and it looked really smooth.  My BetaMax(s) do double
speed play back clearer than normal speed, so this may be the way to
play back stuff recorded from this kind of animation package in the
future.

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