Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!jgary From: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Digitizing with colour camera Keywords: picture digitize Message-ID: <11020@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 2 Feb 89 20:07:38 GMT References: <4290@enea.se> Reply-To: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 37 In article <4290@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes: >Is this a good buy? Does anyone have any experience with it or any other >digitizer using a colour video camera? How is the quality compared to >Digiview? Any faster? > >All info will be welcomed I use a LIVE! on my 1000 that works fine with a color camera. The quality is not as good as digiview, although if you are very careful you can get some stuff that looks about as good as the early Digiview stuff. It captures something like 4 HAM frames/second and has some post-processing steps to improve quality of individual pictures. It doesn't capture HAM in interlace, but you can capture 32 colors or b/w in interlace. 32 color and b/w work faster (something like 15 frames/second in b/w -- don't quote me) and can capture successive frames (limited by total memory, i.e. chip+fast) and save them in their own 'anim like' format called riff. They include a riff playback program (freely distributable) and a program to break up and reconstruct riff files (so you can touch up individual frames). The 500 version is the same as the 1000 version (I think), but the 2000 version is supposed to have some changes to the hardware to support some special effects and dual cameras (imagine real time 3-d!), but I don't know if it is available yet. I am quite happy with it. No color wheels, can use a VCR as input, etc., but you don't get the quality of digi-view or overscan (maybe overscan on the 2000?). Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with A-Squared (makers of LIVE!) other than that of a satisfied customer. That should be obvious from the nebulous references to details in the above message. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James Gary jgary@ms.uky.edu | You Klingon sons, you've killed| | University of Kentucky | my bastard! -Kames Jirk | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+