This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#9594-
Zoetrope Deadhead Rif
Message #9640
MovieSetter is a really nifty product. It's main thrust is in its simple interface. I flagged the pan problem when I originally spoke with the designer of the program. He mentioned a couple of ways to get around it (such as using objects rather than a background for the backdrop),…
I've had a series 1 for about 2 years and use it constantly. There is some kind of conflict with the driver and DPAINT which I believe is DPAINT's fault since I've seen the same kinds of things happen with the Summagraphics drivers. Yes, I use the thing with Zoetrope,…
Hi Vic, thanks for calling/writing/whatever . I have deluxe paint II. The cut tool is used to cut a brush/etc from your screen. It always seems to hang up the Amiga if I use this, especially if I am too quick, when using the Kurta tablet. I have 1 1/2…
Zoetrope Deadhead Rif
Message #9420
A couple of S.F. Bay Areans have a cable new show called "Dead Head TV" that is cablecast nationwide to more than 20 cities. The show features thoughtful interviews with deadheads, up-to-date information about the band, reviews and highlights of recent tours, interviews with the band and "family" members, and…
VD- who? Frame Grab What? We'll just deal with it if and when it happens I guess. As we are more a development outfit than a marketeer the Optimum thing would be to sell it lock stock and barrell to someone else like we did with our Diamond Scan and…
Great, Stan! Have you any idea how many exhibitors there will be? I do hope this show will be a success, and that they will have more of the regional shows. Gee, I wish I could go! Thanks for the information. Now how do you plan to hide the VD-1…
It may never see the light of day but here is the 2350 PVA spec sheet with some obvious stuff removed for brevity: FUNCTION: Genlock. Real time freeze frame. Digitizing of images into Amiga pictures. Frame buffer. INPUTS: Two composite video RS-170A via phono jack. OUTPUTS: Composite video via phone…
Frame Grabber/Live 2000
Message #9360
I would be very interested in talking to anyone who has used : 1) Progressive Peripherals Frame Grabber, or 2) A-Squared System's LIVE-2000 to capture color images real time from a camcorder or VCR. So far on CIS, I have not seen even one message from someone who uses either…
I assume that like any other mag AW has to finalize a long time ahead of print date. CBM has 'previewed' the PVA, but it is not an announced product as far as I know. Yes, I would like to hear details of the preview, but no one knows that…
Betty – Another interesting application surfaced today! You may have seen on the news about a Colorado outfit that has come up with a way to detect minute crack in airline fuselages to predict structural failure. Well it seems they are using Lasers, the Amiga and our very own VD-1…
Ron, I don't know what AW's deadlines are like and I don't know what you consider a "definitive announcement" but I received a "Technology Preview" ("Premilinary – Subject to change without notice") in mid-December. It describes the A2350 PVA in substantial detail. The PVA sounds at least as real as…
But Stan, you can always charge the customers for the RAM. I'm glad your VD-1 is getting such good exposure. Keep us posted about things like these, so we can all see your products – and our computer – on the air. Betty
I for one hope the VD-1 does not stay underground….nothing out there does overscan and interlace without turning your plastic filter….Louis
Which version of DPaint do you have? and what do you mean by the 'cut' tool?
Michael, Your messages are reaching us in all-caps mode. Would you please use lower case? If you are typing with the caps lock on, just release it. If you are using both lower and upper case, but your message comes in upper case only, you need to change your settings…
Joel Tessler the artist who is doing the SuperBowl stuff is quite a good. artist and VERY creative. Of course now that our Vikings got the crap stomped out of them in SF last weekend, I won't fbe personally be going down to Miami, but Joel promised to send me…
AmigaWorld re V Toaster
Message #9270
In a quick scan of the February 89 preview of the Toaster, unless I understand correctly they've made a decision or two that personally I disagree with, unless of course I misunderstood what was said or the finished product is different from what is described. The article describes a single…
Stan, Thanks for the advance news about the 20/20 and SuperBowl. I usually find out that the Amiga has been shown on TV about a week after the fact. Since I almost never watch the set…. I'll be looking for the airings you mentioned, especially the one on 20/20. Betty
#8344-
Video Production/Amiga
Message #9250
JACK; THANKS FOR ANSWERING. I RECENTLY PURCHASED THE KURTA 12X12 TABLET FOR MY WIFE WHO IS A GRAPHIC ARTIST. MY QUESTION IS HOW CAN SHE USE THE TABLET WITH ANIM PROGRAMS SUCH AS VIDEOSCAPE 3D, ZOETROPE ETC. I HAVE NO EXP WITH THIS, NOR DOES SHE. WE'VE HAD OUR AMIGA…
We make a unit called the VD-1, It does indeed capture/freeze frame either a single field or a frame (both fields), and transfer it to the Amiga in HAM mode. We feel (obviously) that our unit yields the highest quality image you can get. Of course at $1000, it is…
#Image Capture Tools
Message #9227
I tried this message over in AmigaTech but haven't got a reply yet, so I'll try here also. I would especially appreciate opinions from anyone who has used this hardware. First, a Happy New Year to you all. I hope 1989 brings the best to you and yours. Second, I…
#8252-
#Video titling
Message #8285
Kurt, you might also want to check out the modification to the A1000's NTSC encoder Amazing Computing! published quite some time ago. It involved snipping out a resistor (I think!). I had my dealer perform the mod when I bought my A1000 in the summer of '87 and have an…
#8059-
Amiga2VCR
Message #8272
Excuse my butting in, but the Panasonic controller is the AG-A95 (list
#7680-
#SunRize Color Splitter
Message #7682
Give Roy a call at the Memory Location in Wellesley, MA. He had quite a few in stock yesterday when I was there. Price is $85. 1-617-237-6846. Also, check DL6 for TROI.ARC and DATA.ARC which I digitized direct from an 8mm freeze frame using DigiView connected to the SunRize.
SunRize Color Splitter
Message #7624
I've been experimenting around with a SunRize Industries "Color Splitter." Using the still frame of a Sony EV-S1 8mm VCR, I'm able to capture excellent color images via DigiView. Likewise when using it with my 8mm Sony video camera. The results with the latter are better than what I've been…
Do you have any more information about this device? I'd love one, and would think it would be more popular. I know lots of Amigaphiles (like me) who have 3-4 IR devices in the same room as our Amiga, and it would be *so* nerdy to be able to control…
They have an adapter (I think it hooks to a joystick port and the parallel port…) which can record and playback Infrared signals, and thus can be used to control any IR controllable device. Very nice idea.
Who is Interactive Microsystems? What sort of IR product do they have?
You betcha! The MediaPhile Programmer's Toolkit even has an ARexx interface!
Actually, this takes us off on a new tangent. Are you saying that Interactive Microsystems has a device that allows you to program your Amiga to emit infrared remote control signals?? What a concept! I can have my Amiga control the VCR, TV, etc via infrared!
#7296-
Amiga2VCR
Message #7309
If the single frame VCR can be controlled by an Infrared remote control, then you can get a little dohickey by Interactive Microsystems which can control it. You might need to do some programming to integrate it with whatever you have rendering images, though… –>Steve Bennett
#7135-
Video titling
Message #7218
A few unsolicited thoughts from someone who uses the Amiga for titling on videos, satellite feeds, etc. Having run through a ton of different products, I now use Aegis Videotitler with JDK Video Fonts for what I think is professional quality titling. I use TV*Show to manipulate 'supers', graphics over-the-shoulder…
Amiga/IBM Video
Message #6725
VIDEOMAKER magazine (the video camera user's magazine) has been quite favorable to the Amiga. I did not realize how much the Amiga was getting under the skin of the typical IBM user until I read this months's "Desktop Video" column. I will let the opening two paragraphs of that article…
#6007-
E.T. Pics
Message #6052
"Letterboxing" is a process used when transferring a wide screen film to videotape or laserdisc. By putting a blank border at the top and the bottom, more of the screen's width can be preserved in the conversion. (Normally, a scanning and panning technique which shows the most important section of…
Send me their phone number. I'm very willing to be taken care of. I'll take care of the kids, do the wash, the cleaning, the bills, the lawn, the garden, you name it, if I can just stay home. I don't wanna grow up, I don't want to wear a…
You really must find her soon! (Mrs. Syndesis that is) I'm only 36, (about 10 years older than you, I believe) and all the women I meet are divorcees that have become so liberated they believe women are very much superior to men!. You really must hurry!! 😉
I didn't know about the .titler file, but it sounds like you've got the solution. As for the icon, you try entering a new higher value for the stack, as shown by using the Info menu option from the Workbench. Try values from 10000 to 30000. Sorry – this is…
#2329-
Turbo-Silver 3.0
Message #2382
Other 3D programs on the Amiga use different schemes as well. This is one of the things I translate in InterChange. VideoScape and Sculpt and Forms in Flight have different coordinate schemes. PageRender coming up from Mindware also has cylindrical and spherical coordinates as well.
#2352-
Turbo-Silver 3.0
Message #2380
There was an interesting question posed on another network in recent weeks. Someone asked if they were acting legally when they decided to sell their old turbo Silver, now that they bought the Turbo Silver 3.0. (Did I ask this question already? 🙂 What do you guys think about this?
Dear Mr./Ms. Syndesis; Well, actually, I believe VideoTitler's references to df0: would have to be called soft-coded. VideoTitler gathers its path to look for things, as well as various other default settings, from a file in the devs directory which is called ".titler" . That file is a pure ASCII…
#5444-
Videotitler Icon
Message #5532
Yup, VideoTitler does reference DF0:, and it's hard-coded. I've never tried it, but I'm sure you could hot-patch the program with something like FileZap, changing the 'DF0:'s to 'VTR:' or something, then using ASSIGNs to set VTR: to the hard disk directory where you put the program.
Art – I'm sorry, but after seeing the evolution of Caligari over the last 2 years, (Actually Turbo Silver exists because we could not negotiate an agreement with either Roman or Eric Graham – So we just wrote our own!) I have very serious doubts of Octree being able to…
Yup, it's out now. Last tuesday night at the NYC Amuse meeting the author, Roman Ormandy from Octree, demoed Caligari. Old timers will remember his impressive demo tape almost two years ago of a 3-D rendering/animation package. Well, time moved on and Caligari never appeared. The tape, though amazing in…
Not sure; was listening in on a co on that other network (the one with the P :), and they were talking about it. The sysop Emailed me a demo, but, I think by now it's been deleted. –Eet–
I first saw a demo of the Caligari stuff back at Siggraph in 1986!!! So is it finally out?
#4435-
#Octree's Caligari 3D
Message #5043
I don't think Videoscape would have quite the quality of the other packages. I hear that the Animate 4D package costs nearly $500? I got a demo of Caligari from Plink that I intend to examine as soon as I can. Since you seem familiar with it, can you give…