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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.video
Subject: Re: Vsprite stuff
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 13:11:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 13:11:53 1987
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In article <1485@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>Speaking of sprites and preferences...
>
>How do you determine what 'correct' video centering is for video recording?
>The Amiga Preferences centering control allows you to adjust for individual
>monitors and TVs, but where is the right place for VCR's and television
>broadcasting? (any gurus from Tektronix out there?)  With a VCR you don't 
>want to adjust it for a specific TV, you want to put it where it is a best
>fit for 'average' TVs, or wherever the spec says (if it says).
>

Well, I learned the hard way about centering of the Amiga's video.

It turns out that I was preparing screen shots for use in my manual and
magazine ads when I came across a company that had a Polaroid Palette 
set up for use with an Amiga.  Great!  Actual high quality color output!

So, I went in carefully prepared and shot 20 slides over a couple of hours.
I returned a week later to pick them up and found that every one was off
center!

Arggggg....

So we played around with Preferences and found that exactly centering the
gadget in the rectangle exactly centered the image in the Palette.  After
shooting all 20 again, they came out fine.

All was well in the end!

	Gary