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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video Products
Message-ID: <26860@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 6 Apr 88 16:52:04 GMT
References: <4834@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <8379@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: desktop video reviews perfect vision
Summary: Digi-View v3.0, and other New-Tek news

In article <8379@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, doug@eris (Doug Merritt) writes:
> 
> BTW although a lot of work went into DigiView 2.0, and it produces much
> better quality images than 1.0 (or than LIVE!, of course), I am still
> quite disappointed in the lack of flexibility in fine tuning the results.
> They very obviously did not have an image processing expert work with
> them on this. To get really high quality results depends far more on
> how well you pick the subject matter, and how carefully you adjust
> lighting conditions, than it does on any software adjustments.
> Too bad...you can do a lot with 21 bits/pixel of image information.
> If you bother. Which they didn't. Other than relatively straightforward
> dithering, which is necessary but not sufficient.
> 
> All of which is to say that, if the Perfect Vision folks wanted to
> outdo DigiView, it would be relatively easy.

Last night at the FAUG meeting, Tim Jennison <I've probably misspelled his
name again>, New-Tek's President, announced that Digi-View v3.0 would be
released in "about two weeks".  Registered owners should receive upgrade
information via a newsletter that's coming out.

He did demo the new version, and said they had "tweaked" their algorithms
some.  Also, the new version will support overscan, and has a couple of
other new features/capabilities.

Not alot of time was spent on the New-Tek stuff, as the meeting was
running a bit late, and Max Toy was up next, so I really don't have any
more information, except that ...

The Video-Toaster should be available "in the summer", as should the long
awaited Digi-Adaptor (add-on box to let you do color digitization from a
VCR, etc).

Also mentioned was Digi-Paint 2.0.  Availability is ... you guessed it ...
this summer.

As a side note, if you're knowledgable about imaging-processing techniques,
you can always save the digitized images in RAW form, and then process them
with your own routines.  The RAW format is 24-bits/pixel, however only
21-bits/pixel are meaningful (7-bits/color).

/kim


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