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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wanted: Single Frame Recording VCR
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Date: 6 Jun 88 20:33:55 GMT
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In article <3077@crash.cts.com> (Jim Howard) writes:
>I'm looking for any kind of VCR (preferably VHS) that will allow me 
>to record one frame of video at a time ...  I can spend up
>to a maximum of about 700 dollars.. Any help?

Sorry to burst your hopes but it cannot be done. Period. The cheapest
single frame capable VCR I have ever seen was a used Beta 1" deck that
was $3,500 and needed a digital timebase corrector before it would 
work with external video. However, there is an alternative. And that
is a regular deck with "Flying Erase Heads". These let you splice/edit
together short segments without the jitter and tearing normally associated
with VCR's. All of the current CamCorders use these. Using one of these
machines you can build up a movie 5 - 10 seconds at a time (depending on 
your RAM capacity). With the some custom software it should be possible
to keep a "Movie" partition on the hard disk that can be read and played
back in real time. Depending on it's size you could conceivably produce
scenes of several minutes of length (using Videscape 3D). If someone
would send me the *source* to a PlayANIM type program I would be able
to put it in fairly easily.


--Chuck McManis
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