jean@pogo.hasler (06/11/90)
Situation: I am very new with Amiga. I have an A500 with 2 diskette drives but not yet the 512K expansion! I have already some experience with Deluxe Paint, Digipaint and Photon Paint (unfortunately without animation) and evidently with all the Software coming from the News (for instance Cshell and VLT + Messydos for my PC). On the other hand I have a Canon Hi8 and a SONY televisor (with RGB on SCART) (both PAL). I have not yet copied my Hi8 tapes on my VHS VCR for evident reason: I will buy soon a S-VHS VCR (prices going down every day!!). Genlocks are too expensive for me. I just would like to add at the beginning of each video sequence a title prepared on the Amiga (eventually with some animation) using frames from the video itself or from other pictures. I think Digiview can do it (or partially). I don't know DigiView (4.0) at all expect the fact that we can digitize pictures in 3 steps (RBG parts(?) with filters). Questions: 1) What is the memory requirements for Digiview? 2) Has DigiView a video interface? RGB? If this is the case I probably need a S-VHS to RGB converter. References? Or what else? Cheap frame grabber? 3) Can I get pictures from my Canon Hi8 or VCR by pausing? 4) Do I need a S-VHS digital freeze for better Quality? The new S-VHS VCR in pause are very stable. 5) Do I need a RBG to S-VHS converter to transfer my pictures from Amiga to the VCR? 6) If 2 and 5 are true, do you know some cheap RBG-SVHS (both directions) converter? I only know one from Philips for S-VHS to RGB (<200$). 7) The picture mode on Amiga for such a transfer seems to be "Interlace". Is it true? Thanks a lot in advance. J-B.Boichat ASCOM Hasler AG Switzerland