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#117328From: NEIL GOLDSMITHApr 3, 1988 9:31 PM
I am interested in doing home video productions. I am seriously looking into a digitier and possibly a genlock. Out of both these products which product is top in its class? Using a low price and godd quality for guidelines.I hear Digi-view, for a digitizer, and Amigen for a genlock are two top products for each. Also i have a question about a digitizer. Can 1 picture created by a digitizer be displayed in another digitized picture? Let me make this more clear. could I use a digitized picture of someones head and display it on another digitized picture of someones body? Or would I need to buy a helping video program such as the director, the butcher, etc.? Thanks alot
#117472From: ViacomApr 4, 1988 7:00 PM
Digi-View makes nice pictures from a good monochrome camera… it takes 3 passes for color. For each pass you place a red, green or blue filter in the optical path to separate the primary color components. Digitizing takes several seconds, depending on rez modes, etc. The Live! digitizer is a "real-time" unit which can grab a frame of video on the fly. The Live! unit costs more than DigiView, though….. On the picture compositing you speak of… if they don't have to move, you can save both digitized pics to disk and pull them into your favorite paint program to cut & paste the body parts (brrr!) together….. j
#117472From: ViacomApr 4, 1988 7:00 PM
Digi-View makes nice pictures from a good monochrome camera… it takes 3 passes for color. For each pass you place a red, green or blue filter in the optical path to separate the primary color components. Digitizing takes several seconds, depending on rez modes, etc. The Live! digitizer is a "real-time" unit which can grab a frame of video on the fly. The Live! unit costs more than DigiView, though….. On the picture compositing you speak of… if they don't have to move, you can save both digitized pics to disk and pull them into your favorite paint program to cut & paste the body parts (brrr!) together….. j
#117824From: GreG Tsadilas/SYSOPApr 7, 1988 1:45 PM
Neil, Digi-View is great for digitizing static images. It takes several seconds to digitize something so real time digitizing is out. Mimetics has had some problems with their Amigen Genlock, but thay have/are working it out. Digital Creations' SuperGen is better than the Amigen from what I understand, but it's price is rather high. You can mix and match images with no problem, providing you have a Paint package to do it with.
#117824From: GreG Tsadilas/SYSOPApr 7, 1988 1:45 PM
Neil, Digi-View is great for digitizing static images. It takes several seconds to digitize something so real time digitizing is out. Mimetics has had some problems with their Amigen Genlock, but thay have/are working it out. Digital Creations' SuperGen is better than the Amigen from what I understand, but it's price is rather high. You can mix and match images with no problem, providing you have a Paint package to do it with.