steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) (06/06/88)
I'm looking for any kind of VCR (preferably VHS) that will allow me to record one frame of video at a time. I am wanting to make a movie of ray traced images, and I dont have 15 million megs of ram to use 'Movie' with.. I heard that the new version of VideoScape has an option for controlling a VCR through the serial port for recording animations to video tape, but thats all I know.. I can spend up to a maximum of about 700 dollars.. Any help? Thanks UUCP: ....!crash!pro-charlotte!steelie | Pro-Charlotte - (704) 567-0029 ARPA: crash!pro-charlotte!steelie@nosc.mil| 300/1200/2400 baud 24 hrs/day INET: steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com | Log in as "register"
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (06/07/88)
In article <3077@crash.cts.com> (Jim Howard) writes: >I'm looking for any kind of VCR (preferably VHS) that will allow me >to record one frame of video at a time ... I can spend up >to a maximum of about 700 dollars.. Any help? Sorry to burst your hopes but it cannot be done. Period. The cheapest single frame capable VCR I have ever seen was a used Beta 1" deck that was $3,500 and needed a digital timebase corrector before it would work with external video. However, there is an alternative. And that is a regular deck with "Flying Erase Heads". These let you splice/edit together short segments without the jitter and tearing normally associated with VCR's. All of the current CamCorders use these. Using one of these machines you can build up a movie 5 - 10 seconds at a time (depending on your RAM capacity). With the some custom software it should be possible to keep a "Movie" partition on the hard disk that can be read and played back in real time. Depending on it's size you could conceivably produce scenes of several minutes of length (using Videscape 3D). If someone would send me the *source* to a PlayANIM type program I would be able to put it in fairly easily. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (06/08/88)
In article <3077@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes: >I'm looking for any kind of VCR (preferably VHS) that will allow me >to record one frame of video at a time. NFW. Standard VHS format can't handle frame-accurate video insert. You'll have to go with S-VHS or three-quarter inch. I have heard rumors that the new 8mm editing deck from Sony will be able to do it. So far, I have been unable to verify this. My attempts at getting frame-accurate video insert on the new 8mm Sony deck were unsuccessful. A Sony rep suggested that if I hooked up their external editing control panel, that it may work, but I don't have much faith. >I heard that the new version of VideoScape >has an option for controlling a VCR through the serial port for recording >animations to video tape, This is true. VideoScape can control external VCR's or, if you're lucky, videodisk recorders. However, the thing VideoScape talks to has to be intelligent enough to do frame-accurate video insert, which generally require a VCR controller interface. Allen Hastings or Stuart Ferguson (Happy Birthday!) may be able to provide more details. >I can spend up to a maximum of about 700 dollars.. Any help? > Sorry, but the minimum buy-in for known working equipment is about $5000 (S-VHS deck). You might be able to fake it by getting a 14 MHz 68020 instead, and playing ANIM scenes directly out of RAM onto videotape in real time, but that will cost you a minimum of $800 or so. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape ihnp4!pacbell -\ \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: dual ---> !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Hmm, you're right. Air is made up of suspended meat loaf." -- Josh Siegel