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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

2752.0. "Question for Digiview/VCR owners." by SHARE::DOYLE () Thu Jul 20 1989 13:52

     Question, I've got Digiview Gold, and a second-hand security camera.
                                            
     I recently tried to tape some live footage by hooking my camera
    to the rca "video" jack on the back of my VCR.
     I then tried to photograph the screen with digiview  set up, and
    the VCR on pause.
     The picture when paused, was distorted, almost like a scrambled
    signal from a unavailable cable station.
     I tried adjusting the tracking, but no success.
     We rented a video camera once, and the tape we made pauses fine.
     At 40 bucks a day, I'm hoping it's just some adjustment on the
    Camera I have to make.
    					Thanks;
    						Ed

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2752.1	Dpaint 3 anyone?	SHARE::DOYLE		`Thu Jul 20 1989 16:09`	5
	Buy the way, has anyone received Dpaint 3 yet? If so how is it. (still waiting for my upgrade)
2752.2	look at 2403 for DPIII	VCSESU::MOORE	Tom Moore MRO1-3/SL1 297-5224	`Thu Jul 20 1989 16:58`	7
	re .1 Take a look at note 2403.* -Tom-
2752.3		56504::PLOUFF	Glorious Blossoms -- Ah-ah-ah-choo!	`Thu Jul 20 1989 17:28`	13
	An answer to .0 from a video dilletante: Probably the industrial security camera has "random interlace" synchronization, meaning that horizontal and vertical sync are not tied to each other, and that all the extra pulses in the standard NTSC retrace interval are probably not present. Your television is good enough to stay synchronized to the camera's output. But I'll bet that the VCR and Digiview depend on a rock-solid V:H sync timing relationship to work properly. The VCR needs good sync to adjust its motor speeds to the recorded frame rate, and Digiview does since it scans over many video frames. Wes Plouff
2752.4	More Questions.	SHARE::DOYLE		`Fri Jul 21 1989 08:38`	20
	re .2 Thanks. re .3 I've read in earlier notes that there is a sync switch inside the "1410?" Panasonic security camera recomended for Digiview Gold. Is this switch common to most security cameras? On another note, in one of the earlier postings of Digi-View, 1481.2 to be exact, it was said that a reasonable image can be grabed straight from the VCR with the pause function. I've tried a straight hook-up (VCR to DIGIVIEW) and ended up with a mosaic pattern (scrambled color info?) for a picture. Could someone elaborate on this procedure. P.S. I know I can only grab B/W pics from the VCR with a straight hook-up. Thanks; ED
2752.5	er.. I mean Digi-Paint III, not Dpaint III.	SHARE::DOYLE		`Fri Jul 21 1989 08:56`	9
	re: .1,.2, Sorry about that, I meant Digi-paint III, not Deluxe-Paint III. (I got Dpaint III, one week after sending in for my upgrade, I sent in for Digi-Paint III, at the same time (back in the begining of May) and am still waiting. Ed
2752.6	The word from USENET	CSOA1::LEN	David M. Len	`Fri Jul 21 1989 09:31`	7
	The word from USENET, is that DigiPaint 3.0 should start being sent out on July 24. As I recall the note indicated that NewTek claims manual printing problems. I have seen the same confusion between Deluxe-Paint and Digi-Paint on USENET. Maybe if we consistently use Roman numerals for Deluxe and digits for Digi, we can keep the confusion to a minimum.