Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!grads.cs.ubc.ca!blee From: blee@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Bernard Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Capturing animation to videotape or film Message-ID: <3771@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 88 20:56:30 GMT Sender: nobody@ubc-cs.UUCP Reply-To: blee@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Bernard Lee) Distribution: na Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 20 Does anyone have experience in videotaping or filming frame by frame computer animation? The software I am working on is a totally custom program to scroll computer music notation across the screen, used on the piece 'illuminated manuscripts' written by William O. Smith premered last year in U of Washington. We used the Amiga in low res mode (320 x 200) and the genlock to put it to both VHS and 3/4 inch videotapes. The result was not very satisfatory. And 320 x 200 is the maximum resolution which I could get it going 30 frames per second in real time. And the musicians are crying for higher resolution. So in order to improve, I could only think of doing it frame by frame. Are there any hardware for the Amiga to control a VCR or a motion picture camera frame by frame? Or are there any of those services available? Any experience or information about getting a hardcopy out of a computer would be greatly appreciated. Bernard Lee blee@grads.cs.ubc.ca