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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
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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
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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
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