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From: blee@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Bernard Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Capturing animation to videotape or film
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Date: 18 Aug 88 20:56:30 GMT
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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