Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Mac ][ for recording ani's on videotape Keywords: Rado watches with diamond dials Message-ID: <3363@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 16 Apr 88 07:09:25 GMT Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca. Lines: 44 (geezus, an article not about geometry or newusers) In article <4366@husc6.harvard.edu> olson@endor.UUCP (Eric K. Olson) writes: >In a recent article Leo Bols writes: >>[ Article originally appeared on comp.graphics. ] >>In article <1022@luth.luth.se> Lars-Gunnar Taube writes: >>>There are some guys here that have made animations with >>>VideoWorks, and they want to do a rock video of it. >>>Is it possible to extract video from the MacII (Apple card) >>>and record it on a VHS recorder? If so, how? >>> >> Sell off the Mac-II, and use the money to buy yourselves a killer >>Amiga system [...] Translation: The Mac ][ was a poor choice. No hardware assist for animation. Won't output directly to videotape. >Getting a Mac II to output interlaced at NTSC frame rates is purely a >software problem; I have sent source in C and a Pascal-like language and >a binary to the person who asked originally. The output is still RGB >(or G only + control panel set to b&w == b&w composite), so you'll need >something to convert RGB to Composite Color. > >The signal is overscanned and good enough to record on a VCR. Translation: They can mess around with it and if they spend as much on another hardware gadget as it would cost to buy the cheapest amiga they might be able to put it onto videotape. > >Note that VideoWorks is a Macintosh product: given that they want to tape >something that is already done, telling them to use the Amiga isn't much help. > Ok, but you were warned. If you're gonna do a lot of this stuff you just might find you're trying to use a typewriter to make pie charts..... -- 4 out of 5 net.goddesses recommend richard for the prevention of tooth decay. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard