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From: gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Digitize vs Scan?
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 18:59:54 EDT
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> In article <55@mtunj.ATT.COM>, H. Moskovitz writes:
> One curiousity, for those of you who may have tried this with MacVision:
> I just recently received a very nice four-head VCR.  The feature of the
> four heads is that when I hit Pause, it does not shake and the image is still
> very good on the screen.  Anyone know what to expect when I feed the image
> to MacVision?  (Just so I know what to expect so I don't get too disappointed.)

You can actually digitize stuff off of video tape, but the frame that
you land on must be really steady and have no vertical or horizontal
jitter.

In general, video tape has too little resolution and horizontal stability
to be used for any quality digitizing.  I have had decent results with
the MacVision unit, but off-camera is much better (especially with a decent
camera)!

Since I have spent a lot of time digitizing non-flexible or non-flat
things, the Thunderscan is out of the question.

Gary