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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: How to get video signal from MacII?
Message-ID: <4366@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 88 13:25:14 GMT
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Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric K. Olson)
Organization: Lexington Software Design, Lexington, MA
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Keywords: video, macII, VHS

In a recent article Leo Bols writes:
>[ Article originally appeared on comp.graphics. ]
>In article <1022@luth.luth.se> Lars-Gunnar Taube <taube@luth.luth.se> 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 [...]

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.

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.

-Eric

	    "We're writing tomorrow's software yesterday."
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