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#HELLO
Message #232
HI Jeff, Welcome to the AmigaArts Forum. Looks like we're kinda close to each other (big emphasis on the kinda) as I'm in the Anaheim area. Are you into MIDI? Hope you enjoy it here. We've got a great bunch of folks. Regards, Allen
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Music-X Update
Message #231
Mike, This isn't the 'Totally New Version', is it? You had previously said something about an update AND a new and improved Music-X. Are they two different products, one in the same, a figment of my MIDI imagine, … ? 🙂 Thanks… Regards, Allen
Jeff: VRLI is Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc. We currently market Distant Suns and Vista. Clint
Do you have a MIDI keyboard set up, or would you prefer keying in melodies from the QWERTY keyboard? THol() { cout
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Message #73
Thanx for the 'Hi' By the way, what is (VRLI) I'm new on this service, and am still learning my way around. JEFF
#music
Message #71
Yes, that's what I bought my Amiga for. To write songs. I'm a great lyricist, but I can't play all that well. I figure that if I can learn to read and write music on my comp., then I'll have control of the finished product. It's hard to try to…
All high scan rate monitors (EGA, VGA, Mac II) are designed to leave a black border around the image. Television derived displays (CGA and Amiga) use overscan which extends the image beyond the bezel of the monitor. Flickerfixer displays the entire amiga image within the visible region of 31.5 KHz…
Both monitors are being used with flicker fixer. The Zenith ZCM-1490 is a single frequency VGA monitor. It has better brightness and contrast than conventional monitors. The screen is perfectly flat. It is heavier than other monitors and has a fan. Cables can be ordered from Redmond Cable (206) 882-2009.…
Director vs. TV*Show
Message #4594
Anyone care to compare The Director and TV*Show. I'm looking for something that is fairly easy to use to create slideshow type segments to add to home videos (some genlocked and some not). VideoSeg in vidtitler would be great if it supported HAM. Thanks, Steve
Slideshow
Message #4592
Is there a slideshow program comparable to Videoseg (In Videotitler) that will display HAM images. Showiz is close but seems to go from image to black to image rather than from image to image in its effects. Steve
Thanks for the quick answer! I've seen the Multisync II which does leave a border. That IS annoying. The Multisync II does not allow you to set the horizontal width which would probably do the job. If you can adjust the height one should be able to adjust the width,…
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Music Videos
Message #4166
Check into Lights,camera,action by Aegis. They can provide the synch you are looking for with Sonix scores. Shalom
We have the Magnovox Professional Monitor (8CM738 or something). It does a nice job with the flickerFixer as compared to a 1080 with no deinter- lacing. I don't have much of a basis for comparison with other monitors however. One thing, maybe someone can comment on this, apparently MultiSync moni-…
#Flicker Fixer
Message #4155
I haven't been around for a couple of months. So I might have missed what I'm looking for. Does any of you folks out there has a Flicker Fixer? I'm planning to buy one but would like to hear from you about any experience with FF and monitors. Anybody tried…
What the Octree unit apparently does is this: Using a decent 4 head VCR (so they can get seamless edits), they record a frame for several seconds along with an SMPTE time code. Then they render the next frame, rewind the tape to several seconds BEFORE the frame they just…
Steve, to record to a standard VCR, wouldn't you require large amounts of memory so you can dump it as a live action shot. Is there some way around this?
If I remember correctly from Octree's presentation at a user meeting a while back, the package is not only the 3D rendering software, but also a high quality VCR and a hardware adapter so that you can record frame by frame DIRECTLY to the VCR. Next best thing to buying…
I uploaded at least one version of QRT, and everything I received was uploaded. I think the executable is in one file and everything else may be in the source. And it is possible that the source is in the C Programming library. You might try there.
#QRT
Message #4046
After downloading the "Quick Ray Tracer" from DL 9 I noticed that the archive seems to be missing the Users reference guide. Could someone who has this upload it?
Octree's Caligari 3D
Message #4028
Caligari is here, but who is going to shell out $1995.00 for another 3D product? Even if you are a professional, you have products like Video-Scape 3d for around $130. So who is going to buy this stuff?
Very often, companies don't show the actual circuit board, because they don't want their competitors studying how it works. I've seen the real Toaster boards, up close, and have heard very detailed explanations of how it works. So it is a real thing, it's just not being sold yet. That's…
That's probably for the same reason they look that way under HAMGIF. The display program looks at the file, says "Hey! The horizontal resolution is more than 320… Obviously it needs to be displayed in a 640 horizontal mode", and *poof*, it comes out horizontally squeezed… A number of IBM…
The overscan images I have converted to GIF have always come out horizontally 'squeezed: on the IBM side. Hmm…… I'll do some more today and re-check.
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#GIF pictures
Message #3392
AMGIF doesn't handle the overscan? I've done several overscan images to GIF with no trouble whatsoever. Now, HAMGIF, the *display* program, doesn't know about overscan resolutions and messes up the aspect ratio quite badly when displaying a GIF encoded overscan image, but the image has always encoded correctly to my…
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GIF pictures
Message #3391
Umph… That *is* a problem, isn't it. I've heard vague rumors that someone on the IBM side of things was going to develop a GIF utility which could read Amiga HAM files, but as far as I know, it doesn't exist as yet. Probably your best bet right now is…
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DigiView and VCR
Message #3385
Hello, I have to reply on the Toaster. I was at Chicago ami-expo (Drove from NJ) and was disapointed to see nothing but a Cardboard Box with wires coming out of it connected to a Camera and a monitor. They had a looping effect that was pre-programmed (I guess) and…
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#No Room at the Inn.
Message #3374
I've got just under 15MB of stuff we used at siggraph. How about I send a set of Quarterback disks intead. That much uploading will have to wait a couple of years until I have nothing else to do except collect my social security checks. Or i will keep dribbling…
Well, I don't have answers, but I do have some suggestions… First, assuming a television set displays the CMI output correctly, and it's only the video tape itself which is coming out wrong, you should make sure that the video plays in *interlace* mode. Standard VCRs generally do not work…
Jim, Wishful thinking, yeah. Perhaps, with these new Digital decks – they should enc rporate such an output connection. Actually, I would imaging it would be fairly simple to hook up such an output to a Digital deck – mainly due to the fact that it uses RAM to store…
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#DigiView and VCR
Message #3228
Just for grins I tried digitizing a VCR still frame using the usual Panasonic BW camera pointed at an Amdek color 300 monitor attached to the VCR. It didn't turn out too bad compared to the original VCR freeze frame. My VCR does not have the digital freeze, so I…
A2000 and VCR's
Message #3217
I'm having trouble getting a CMI VI2000RF board to work properly with my VCR and A2000. I'm trying to record a DeLuxe Video. I have a cable running from the composite output on the CMI video board to the Video In port on the back of my VCR. While I'm…
GIF on AMIGA 2000
Message #3057
Sorry, I don't know Lynne….if any other Hawaiian Video nuts are out there give us a call at CAD Services, (808) 732-2237…. we publish a free newsletter with quite a bit of video and other Amiga/computer graphics topics…
#3003-
graphic scr dump?
Message #3012
I do think I'm going for grabbit! Ron
On HBO about three nights ago, they were having technical difficulties, so they displayed the typical "Please stand by" message. That message screen was being generated by an Amiga. The Amiga generates all of the graphics _and_ sounds for the game show "Lingo", which was hosted by Mike Reagan (there'll…
Yes, there are genlocks available, ranging from home use to near-network quality. Price for one of the best is about $780, and there are more in the pipeline. Hardware ranges from the decent to the really good stuff. There are some embelishments available tht reach true professional level. Drop a…
#AMIGA 2000
Message #2921
Hello. I am a recent refugee from the HP Forum. I am in the cable TV business and am AMAZED at what I saw an Amiga Computer do in my friendly neighborhood computer store with graphics. I thought before I parted with my hard earned (are they ever earned any…
It seems that there are a lot of Amiga vidiots out on the islands. You don;t happen to know Lynne Balvin? —Mike
Sure! I'd be happy to send you a copy of the files, contact me at CAD Services, (808) 732-2237, or by mail…2916 Date Street, Ste. 10E, Honolulu, HI 96816…
Paul, As publishers of Photon Paint, we would be interested in seeing some of the images you transferred from the TARGA board. If you don't care to upload them here, perhaps we could send you a disk to send back to us. —Mike Berro/MicroIllusions
Nick, Sounds like a frame-grabber is the way to go. There are a few out now, so shop around, and ask opinions about them in this forum. —Mike
Steve, I believe SaveIFF chokes on 'oversized' GIF graphics, where the bitmap is a wee bit larger or smaller than standard. I guess it expects things to be 'normal' and bollixes the end of the file, or mislocates the color map. Those display utilities that handle odd-sized graphics will handle…
I'm pretty new at this sysopping business, Nick. But I did teach for an awfully long time, and usually found that the most obvious things were the most likely to have been overlooked. Hope everything works well.
Sounds like SaveIFF is pretty flakey… Anyone know of a better PD screen grabber? –>Steve Bennett
Thanks for the information, Mike. The effect I am trying for is to introduce the subjects of a video by freezing a frame with their faces prominent and genlocking their names underneath. I guess to do this properly I am going to have to spring for a frame-grabber of some…
Paul, If you're using a null-modem look into Aterm7.3, over in 'Tech's lib 4. If you can get the IBM side onto 3.5 disks, or have a 5.25 drive on the Amiga, there is a commercial program, Dos-2-Dos, that will do the proper translation and copying. Doug
#GIF on AMIGA 2000
Message #2229
Hey I got it working, many thanks to Bill Eastburn and Seven Bennett…Save IFF worked but for some reason loading it into Digipaint changed the pallete. When I tried the same drawing in Photon Paint, it worked like a charm…Now I can capture pictures on my TARGA and pass it…
The problem is that the video rate in pause is no longer 29.97 because the heads are running at the same rate but the tape is stopped. My VHS home VHS machine (NEC-5000) has a digital freeze, which works great. You will need either a digital freeze (which is what…
Steve, It's probably SAVEIFF's doing. It will occasionally choke on GIF pictures, either screwing up the palette, or producing a guru-making picture. Tell the man that PixMate used in conjuction with NextScreen (NXTSCR.ARC, tools, 'Tech) will work 100% if he shuffles the screens around until it grabs the right one.…
Mike, Guess I overlooked the obvious regarding Preferences! I use The Director and since it boots to a cli the idea of using Preferences didnt occurr to me. BTW, another thing that is driving me crazy is the inability of my genlock to lock on to the signal of an…
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#Video Centering Blues
Message #2175
Betty, Surely your experiences as a sysop have taught you never to ASSUME anything! Actually I guess this obvious solution did not occurr to me because I use The Director from the cli. I will copy Preferences over to my working Director disk, run it and adjust the screen centering…
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