ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (03/14/87)
<<<<<<<<<<<<go ahead... eat my bits>>>>>>>>>>>> I just found out about a neat gadget! It's called a video control sequencer, or just a video sequencer. It allows you to record frame by frame on a VCR. On one end you plug in the video out from the Amiga (or any video signal) and on the other end the video in for a VCR. The Amiga controls the sequencer via the serial port. The computer can take it's time drawing a frame, and then it sends the go-ahead over the serial port. The sequencer will put the current picture coming over onto tape. When I first started using the sequencer I assumed it was a very expensive device, but I have just found out it was $400. That's not too bad considering that an Amiga ($1200) DW_Render (a few dollars or free depending on your morals and finances) the ray-tracer by Dave Wecker, a VCR ($250), and some blank tapes makes you into a computer graphics effects video lab. Right now I'm using the sequencer on an IBM PC, and it's potential is really wasted! I'd love to take it home for a weekend!!!! -Pete Theobald Disclaimer: Never mind... Fancy signature: ditto...
cjp@vax135.UUCP (03/16/87)
(sorry, my mailer can't find sunybcs) In article <2592@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes: >... a video sequencer. It allows you to record frame by frame on a VCR. >On one end you plug in the video out from the Amiga (or any video signal) >and on the other end the video in for a VCR. The Amiga controls the sequencer >via the serial port.... >expensive device, but I have just found out it was $400. That's not too bad You've been using this device? I was led to believe that only very expensive VCRs would allow single-frame recording with decent quality. Questions: How stable is the resulting video image with respect to waver, noise bars, etc, when played back at normal speed? What technology (VHS, Beta, etc) and make and model VCR are you using? How does the video sequencer interface with the VCR controls for record, stop, etc? What do you get inside this $400 box? Who sells it? Thanks, Charles Poirier
spencer@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) (03/18/87)
In article <1806@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes: >You've been using this device? I was led to believe that only very >expensive VCRs would allow single-frame recording with decent quality. >Questions: How stable is the resulting video image with respect to waver, >noise bars, etc, when played back at normal speed? What technology >(VHS, Beta, etc) and make and model VCR are you using? How does the >video sequencer interface with the VCR controls for record, stop, etc? >What do you get inside this $400 box? Who sells it? > > Thanks, > Charles Poirier I haven't seen this, but I would be interested in it. The guys at Aegis are still doing it by hand. They had some new stuff from that Alan Hastings 3D animation package. He is using an 8mm VCR (stepping up from 8mm film) to capture the stuff. It does about 4 frames at a time, but it is clean. When he played it through he rewound it and played it at double speed and it looked really smooth. My BetaMax(s) do double speed play back clearer than normal speed, so this may be the way to play back stuff recorded from this kind of animation package in the future. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (04/04/87)
<<<<<<<suicidal line goes here>>>>>>>>>
I just got this from Selden E. Ball, Jr. He called BCD associates
about the video sequence controller. Bad news $$$$$$$$:
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Pete,
I just called BCD Associates. They're very friendly.
Unfortunately, the list price for the "Videolink" is $1295.
It does NOT work with the Panasonic AG-1950, either. Sigh.
(If you would post this for me, I'd appreciate it:
my outgoing link to Usenet isn't what it might be.)
Selden E. Ball, Jr.
Cornell University NYNEX: +1-607-255-0688
Laboratory of Nuclear Studies BITNET: SEB@CRNLNS
Wilson Synchrotron Lab ARPA: SEB%CRNLNS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Judd Falls & Dryden Road PHYSnet/HEPnet/SPAN:
Ithaca, NY, USA 14853 LNS61::SEB = 44283::SEB (node 43.251)
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-Pete Theobald
Peter Theobald
SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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