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#Video Centering Blues

    23-Aug-88 17:16:55
Fm: Mike Berro 76004,2001
To: Nick Moore 75236,3036
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 Perfect Vision has built-in, but not DigiView), or pointing a camera at the screen will sort of work. Again, since the pause rate is different from the camera rate, you will get a thin white line rolling (slowly) through the monitor image. If you are just lining up the Amiga graphics with the video, that should work OK. —Mike