Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvca!charles From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Which digitizer should I buy? Message-ID: <5660028@hpcvca.HP.COM> Date: 11 Jan 89 01:57:57 GMT References: <24526@sgi.SGI.COM> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon Lines: 38 > From an old article in Amiga > World, I think that the Live! digitizer is slightly preferred, both > for price and performance (plus, I know it should work with a 1000). > scott henry I bought a LIVE! for a discount from a store which was moving. Since I did not own a VCR or camera, I decided to hook it to the camera and VCRs owned by the company of a friend. These are professional instruments (The VCRs were rack mount Sonys) in excellent condition. The LIVE! could not sync to the VCR when the frame was stopped and synced poorly when the frame was not stopped. It did better with the camera. The picture was very jerky but recognizable as a picture. The software was worse. Most attempts to save a picture did not save anything but merely resulted in the modes changing to low resolution non-ham. The remaining attempts caused the Amiga to Guru. I called the company. They sent me a newer revision of the software. (The software is at home so I cannot tell you what version it is.) That improved the odds of successfully saving a picture considerably. A low resolution picture could then be saved about two-thirds of the time. In high resolution the odds were still poor. The sync was not improved (no suprise there). The software still Guru'ed, tho not as often. I was hoping to show off some of the capabilities of the Amiga to these video professionals. They could really use the power of video titling and editing. Instead they say exceptionally poor video capture and a computer which Guru'ed repeatedly. My Amiga was a totally stock (except for the PAL grounding modification) Amiga1000 with 512K RAM and one external 3.5 inch floppy. (I also tried it without the extra floppy.) Their hardware was poor. Their software just did not work. I will NEVER buy anything from them again. -- Charles Brown charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com Not representing my employer.