Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Genlock Devices
Message-ID: <1608.AA1608@heimat>
Date: 27 Jul 88 02:03:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <3235@crash.cts.com>, steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:

>Are any of the Amiga compatible genlock devices able to do 
>rudimentary "chroma-key" effects?  
> 
>(I.E. The local weatherman standing in front of the huge digatal
>weather map) 
> 
>I would think the commodore genlock is doing pretty much the 
>same thing when overlaying the graphics onto the composite 
>signal, but then again I've been known to think strange 
>things before.
> 
  Well sort of - how about your local weatherman standing BEHIND the map :-)

  If you stick a video imgage into an Amiga genlock, it will replace the ZERO
  color (background - normally blue). I know the Commodore genlocks 1300 & 2300
  both work this way.


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