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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

567.0. "Video Questions" by BUNSUP::LITTLE (Todd Little NJCD SWS 323-4475) Tue Jun 23 1987 02:13

    Can someone provide me a description of what a Genlock actually
    is capable of doing?  Does it allow such video editing capabilities
    as fades, wipes, horizontal/vertical scrolled titles, picture in
    picture or split frames, or frame by frame assembly?  Of the functions
    it performs, what is done in hardware and what is done in software,
    i.e. what else could I make it do given some additional programming.
    
    Also, the Digiview product sounds essentially like a frame grabber.
    Is it more than that and again, what features are hardware vs what
    whats done in software.
    
    -tl
    
    PS  Is "genlock" a generic term, or a term for a specific product?

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567.1 what it is HYSTER::DEARBORN Trouvez Mieux Tue Jun 23 1987 11:59 18

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567.1	what it is	HYSTER::DEARBORN	Trouvez Mieux	`Tue Jun 23 1987 11:59`	18
	the Amiga Genlock unit simply allows you to overlay computer graphics onto live or taped video. It also allows you to mix stereo sound from the Amiga with sound from another source. That's about it. Picture in picture??? you've got to be kidding. Of course you can do simple animated things or display still images within still images. Software packages will allow you to scroll or wipe titles, but not live video. You need a costly effects generator for that. Digi-view is a video digitizer. It can scan in color still images and then manipulate them. Paint packages can perform further manipulation and modification of the still images. You won't be able to get Genlock to do much more through programming. It is nothing more than a device to let you combine images created with the Amiga with images from another video source.

    the Amiga Genlock unit simply allows you to overlay computer graphics
    onto live or taped video.  It also allows you to mix stereo sound
    from the Amiga with sound from another source.  That's about it.
    
    Picture in picture??? you've got to be kidding.  Of course you can
    do simple animated things or display still images within still images.
    Software packages will allow you to scroll or wipe titles, but not
    live video.  You need a costly effects generator for that.
    
    Digi-view is a video digitizer.  It can scan in color still images
    and then manipulate them.  Paint packages can perform further
    manipulation and modification of the still images.
    
    You won't be able to get Genlock to do much more through programming.
    It is nothing more than a device to let you combine images created
    with the Amiga with images from another video source.