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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Video Digitizers
Message-ID: <5132@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 18:52:41 GMT
Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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Can anyone tell me what frame grabbers and/or digitizers exist for the
Amiga?  How much do they cost?  How fast can they digitize a video 
signal as a monochrome 640 x 400 frame?  Monochrome 320 x 200?  Color?  
Most importantly - can they be used with a genlock, and can the 
digitizing function be incorporated into a user program?

The group I work in likes to show videos, and we would like to have the 
ability to overlay graphics on the video signal as well as do spiffy 
titles, so an Amiga with genlock is one way to go.  Another way is to 
buy $10,000 worth of Time Base Correctors and Video Mixers - so the 
Amiga even looks cost-effective.  A video mixer can do split screens, 
which would be nice, but an Amiga can (I hope, and this is what I'm
asking) grab a video frame, threshold it to 1 bit plane and overlay it 
on incoming video.  This is why I'm looking for a frame grabber or 
digitizer that works with a genlock and can be controlled by an 
application program.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
		Action by HAVOC		(shf@Solar.Stanford.EDU)