Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Video Products Message-ID: <8841@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 7 Apr 88 01:36:58 GMT References: <4834@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <8379@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2566@polya.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 28 Keywords: desktop video reviews perfect vision Digi-View sounds like a neat product, and it certainly produces some very nice pictures. I like the fact that the resolution is 21 bits per pixel -- that's a neat feature. As I understand it however it takes a fair bit of time (>1 second?) to do each pass at the color wheel and that there are 3 (or 4) passes on the color wheel to make a picture. I would really prefer to be able to digitize frames on the fly, which leads one to Live. But Live doesn't work on my 2000 (I assume there'll be a version eventually which'll live on the bus). Also I don't know what sort of resolution Live has. I know that it doesn't do a very good job of freezing frames -- I've seen examples at the local store where they were digitizing frames from Predator and the moving bushes came out fairly blurry. Perfect Vision does no better -- color digitizing has to be done in >1 passes and doesn't have enough resolution. The Toaster will probably do exactly what I want but I can't afford $800-$1000 for it. Is DigiView my only choice? -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- I don't have a Blue bone in my body!