rolee@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Profess'nal Agitator) (04/13/91)
I just acquired a Framegrabber 256 video image digitizer from Progressive
Peripherals and am very impressed by what I have seen so far. However, it
doesn't quite fulfill my needs.
I bought it under the expectation that I would be able to digitize off of
videotape, in both color and b/w. The description I was given led me to
believe that I would be able to digitize moving images in b/w and freeze
frames in color, which, of course, is not what the FG 256 does.
I have a description of just the straight Framegrabber in my AC guide, and
it says it can digitize 4096 color images in 1/30 of a second, which is
close enough to real-time for my purposes. I have also been told that there
is a colorizing routine that comes with the FG 256 software.
Can anyone tell me what the differences are between the FG and FG 256? Is
the FG 256 more expensive because it has 24-bit conversion capability that
the original FG doesn't have? Is there a colorizing routine that I haven't
found yet? If so, how does it perform?
E-mail preferred. Thanx in advance,
Agitator
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