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From: dowdy@apple.UUCP (Tom Dowdy)
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Consumer-Grade Single-Frame VTR's
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 12:03:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 12:03:56 1987
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In article <180@cerebus.UUCP> ronc@cerebus.UUCP (sysadm) writes:
>Believe it or not, Macy's sells this animal.  According to their
>ad, it does not record single frame.  Rather, it records in 8 frame
>bursts and can be set to record one burst per 30 seconds.  (I
>don't know if this is "up to 30 seconds", or "30 or longer", it
>just said "30 seconds".
>
>It occurs to me that an eight frame burst is actually a better idea
>than single frame recording as it provides much more redundancy per
>"frame", and probably averages the noise caused by starting and stopping
>the tape over several frames.

Actually, an 8 frame burst would probably be perfectly acceptable
for what most people in this group have in mind: computer animation.
This assumes, of course, that noise is minimal.

After recording your 8 frame bursts, you could then see the results
of the animation (abit slow tho, and jerky) and after you were happy
with it, could redub it using a borrowed/rented tape editor...
(too expensive to buy, but very fun to play with, we used one to
take a copy of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" video and redub it
1 frame --> 30 frames, revealing the fact that during one of her
dance sequences her top falls down for about 3 frames)

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