Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!svax!siegel From: siegel@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: WORM drives as animation output devices Message-ID: <1853@svax.cs.cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 11:23:43 EST Article-I.D.: svax.1853 Posted: Sat Dec 5 11:23:43 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 06:20:28 EST References: <17231@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: siegel@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 24 Keywords: videodisk animation single-frame recording In article <17231@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes: > > Anyone trying to use a WORM drive as a buffering medium for the creation >of video one frame at a time? Ideally, one would like to create CD-V disks >frame by frame, something which should not be fundamentally impossible. >Next best would be to use a WORM disk as a buffering device for the >digital accumulation of frames to be played back later at high speed by >a suitable play program, at which time, of course, one could record the >output on videotape. > > John Nagle Sure. Sony makes a video disk recorder and player which do exactly this. I've used them to record a movie one frame at a time over a period of several days. Very nice. You can roll forward or back at nearly any useful speed, and the single frame can be manually and computer controlled. High quality too. Unfortunately it cost $$$! 20k is a good starting price. -- Alex Siegel Computer Science at Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 siegel@svax.cs.cornell.edu (ARPAnet) siegel@CRNLCS (BITNET) {uw-beaver,ihnp4,decvax,vax135}!cornell!siegel (UUCP)