#SMPT/Time Code
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Mike, I just reread an earlier maeesage of yours about Time code and the
AMIGA. You were mentioning that "Time Code Window Display for the AMIGA now
supports overscan for doing WINDOE DUBS". I do mostly video with my AMIGA
(public access CATV, school volunteer work, etc…) and your comment got me
going: what were you actually talking about?? I gor to fantasize: perhaps it
would be possible to run live video through the AMIGA (via GENLOCK for
example) and have it appear in a window (instead of the whole screen)!! In
fact my DeluxeVideo 1.2 manual alludes to the possibility to somewhat
"window" either AMIGA's output or the video signal going thru GENLOCK.
Thanks for your comments – Roger
Roger,
Sorry. A "Window Dub" is where time code is super-imposed onto the live
video in a window (i.e. usually surrounded wit black to make the numbers easy
to read). It is easy to create a "window" on the Amiga, and have the video
appear only in that area (it is what the genlock does), but it is NOT
possible to "shrink" or otherwise manipulate the external video without first
digitizing it.
There is at least one real-time digitizer available for the Amiga,
"Live!". I don't know if they have the software for what you want yet, but
it is doable. Remember though, whenever you digitize any video image, you
get some degradation of picture quality, and the results on the Ami are (so
far) obvious compared to live video. Of course, you also get some neat
effects like false coloring, pixelizing, etc.
—Mike
Mike, thank you for your reply. I realized in fact that as I was asking my
question, I was addressing an altogether different subject. BTW it soes seem
that NEWTEKS Toaster hardware/software configuration will offer capabilities
superior to the current offerings of, say, LIVE! (which I have – it is indeed
exciting to see & play with digitized live video: it is possible to do
weatherman-in-front-ofweather-map effects, etc…) or DigiView, but with the
assistance of more hardware (like the Toaster) it should be possible to
further manipulate live & digitized video… Or am I wrong??
Roger
Roger,
I don't know enough about the Toaster to say. Perhaps someone else here
has more info on it. —Mike
Roger, for information on the Video Toaster I suggest you all NewTek. They
would be able to supply you will up to date info. I saw the Toaster in
action as a two channel ADO. It was maniplulating live video, rotating it,
shrinking it, flipping it, etc. The images were proessed by the Toaster
itself, I assume the Amiga was only telling it what effect to produce. The
results were fantastic to say the least. The image was somewhat pixelized,
but I was told that it was a minor problem in that proto-type. The
pixelization aside, the image was the image you'd get straight from a video
camera.
GreG