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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comments on Perfect Vision?
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Date: 3 Feb 88 19:40:20 GMT
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In article <296NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes:
>Initially, I will be needing a way to digitise still objects, but
>eventually would like to be able to digitise a series of frames from
>a VCR. I know that Live! is meant for this, and it is amazing. But
>the picture quality just isn't good enough for my needs (closed system
>video).

Arthur Abrams was demoing the latest version of the Live software at 
FAUG last night, and my subjective opinion was that they had improved
the picture quality by an order of magnitude. They have also included
a lot of the slider controls that Digi-View is famous for and as a kicker
they can start Deluxe Paint, and digitize into DPaint's spare screen.
There is a new menu option 'swap to dpaint' which will stop the Live!
program so that you can push the screen back and pull Dpaint to the front.
After doing so you can play with the image all you want. Seems like 
you might want to check with them again. Of course they are more expensive
($295 + Camera) but they are the only ones I know of who can do sequential
frames from a running video tape.


--Chuck McManis
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