[comp.sys.next] next dimension capabilities

mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) (06/19/91)

someone here is interested in making video tapes of animated graphics
-- basically they need to take a sequence of color postscript frames
and generate a video signal (presumably NTSC).  assuming they can't
generate the frames in real time, they'll need to pre-generate them,
compress & store them, & then replay them.  does a next dimension
have the right hardware to do this?  could a nextstation do it?
(i've been using mono cubes for a long time, but haven't looked in
to the color machines yet.)
                                             .mike.

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                                             .mike.

gmk@ucsc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) (06/19/91)

In article <mdixon.677267720@thelonius> mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon)  
writes:
> -- basically they need to take a sequence of color postscript frames
> and generate a video signal (presumably NTSC).  assuming they can't
> generate the frames in real time, they'll need to pre-generate them,
one thing you could do is transform the .ps files in .gif files and 
use the animator in ViewGif2


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