Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!virginia!kesmai!dca From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Will the Amiga survive? Part II Message-ID: <227@kesmai.COM> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:05:09 GMT References: <434@accsys.UUCP> Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 23 In article <434@accsys.UUCP>, wizard@accsys.UUCP (Christoph Brand) writes: > To produce a nice image without disturbing jaggies, you have to work in > hi-res/interlace. Now...have you ever tried to put a nice hi-res title onto > video? It works, but you still see the flickering if you use both a > professional genlock and videorecorder. Do you think the customers like > flickering titles? Maybe in the US it's not so bad, because you work with > 60 Hz, but in Europe.... > > What I want to say is that I don't see what you could use the Amiga for in > business. Raytracing animations are great, but who wants them, still > pictures is no good on Amiga and with Desktop Presentation you've got > problems with the flickering. One point that needs to be made here is that my understanding is that the flickering is intrinsic to the NTSC or PAL systems. No matter how much money you spend the video signals in these systems are still interlaced and thus still have the potential for flicker. Period. A more expensive system could allow you to use more colors than the Amiga hi-res allows to give a smoother contrast gradation and thus less flicker but a color title that isn't carefully contrast controlled will flicker just as badly on the most expensive workstation as it does on the Amiga when it gets transferred to video. David Albrecht