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From: NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digitizing with colour camera
Message-ID: <590NETOPRHM@NCSUVM>
Date: 3 Feb 89 05:37:11 GMT
References: <4290@enea.se>
Organization: North Carolina State University - Computing Center
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I'm using a Live for the 2000. While it will do color, I find HAM mode
to only useful for still shots, and even then it takes a fair amount of
fiddling in Pixmate to get presentably good results. It has an option
to accept an RGB inputs; I will be testing this in about a week or so.

Since you are talking a fair amount of money here, you very well may
want to look at Progressive Peripheral's framegrabber, which is
currently the best for one-shot image capture. Image quality is,
in many cases, equal or better than Digiview.

Of course, Commodore has been showing off it's Genlock/Framegrabber
board for the 2000, but has made no committment to production. I hope
they do come out with it. It would go a long way towards making the
2000 "THE Desktop Video Solution" (the 2500vi?). Some companies who
are used to dealing with video, but not computers, would feel a lot
more comfortable about buying a already configured "box" that could
handle their titling/animation needs, versus putting something together
themselves from several suppliers, and hoping it all works together.

--hal
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 Hal Meeks                 "I'm living in a condo,
 netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet     with Henry Thoreau"
 hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu        --Reagan Years, Part II