Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wanted: Single Frame Recording VCR Message-ID: <55532@sun.uucp> Date: 6 Jun 88 20:33:55 GMT References: <3077@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 23 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 uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.