marquet@bohra.cpg.oz (John Marquet) (03/02/90)
I need information on boards for the IBM PC or PS/2 worlds that will allow me to grab a video frame, digitise it, edit it, and then re-write the digitised frame back in analogue form onto a video recorder. The target application is to edit (many times) a master CAV videodisc onto an analogue WORM videodisc, deleting old material and adding new frames from a video sources like tape and camera. I am manager for a project that maintains an `electronic reference' of (currently) 23,000 stills of dysmorphic children on videodisc. The product is widely used. The disc is at version 2 - we edited it off line using a SMPTE master tape, but this is a very expensive process, and I'd like to get as much of the work as possible onto a desk top. The generic master is a 1" PAL SMPTE tape. We replicate the CAV discs in PAL and NTSC formats. We have driver software for Pioneer, Sony and Phillips players, but so far nothing for WORM videodisc recorders. Are there any packages around that solve the problem I've described, or is there an opportunity here (again)? John Marquet Computer Power 613 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004 Phone: +61 3 520 5348 Fax: +61 3 520 5322 Australia - one of the few remaining paradises on earth ...