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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: trekiej on November 13, 2012, 06:12:25 PM
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Has anyone connected a Genlock to any of these?
Thanks.
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If you can feed the sync signal to one FPGA I/O pin and "recompile" a new core that makes use of DCM to scynchronise the 4x video clock, it should be doable.
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So that you could work with analog video that isn't widely used in the US (or abroad) anymore?
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That was my concern...
Will SuperGen + and ChromaKey + be supported...
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Mainly curriosity, I feel digital is either expensive or lacking quality.
I guess you get what you pay for.
It would be nice to see how an external genlock would work if the mini-mig had an amiga rgb output to genlock with.
Basically I just do not know how to leave stuff alone.
B)
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Another curriosity, how could an Aros machine with a vga signal make an rgb signal?
Has anyone ever used a parallel port to make an rgb signal?
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So that you could work with analog video that isn't widely used in the US (or abroad) anymore?
Since when do Amigans worry about using something that isn't widely used? We wouldn't use Amigas if we did. ;-)
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Another curriosity, how could an Aros machine with a vga signal make an rgb signal?
Has anyone ever used a parallel port to make an rgb signal?
A lot of VGA cards can be programmed to output 15khz. To connect to an amiga monitor you might need to combine the H & V signals into composite sync.
It's not practical to use a parallel port to output rgb. You could probably do something, but the resolution and colour would be very limited. Timing would be difficult as you'd need to generate the sync as well, it's the type of thing you would do on an AVR chip not on a PC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2MMMTw3SY
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So that you could work with analog video that isn't widely used in the US (or abroad) anymore?
One good reason for that can be summed up in two words; Generation Loss.
Iggy is spot on. I see no good reasons to use analogue at all, digitize, manipulate, output, end, 'nuff said.
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DVI/HDMI/SDI input shouldn't be rocket science. Except perhaps a rocketport for Xilinx FPGA ;)
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One good reason for that can be summed up in two words; Generation Loss.
Iggy is spot on. I see no good reasons to use analogue at all, digitize, manipulate, output, end, 'nuff said.
Thank you!.
At last, someone who isn't into pain.
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One good reason for that can be summed up in two words; Generation Loss.
Iggy is spot on. I see no good reasons to use analogue at all, digitize, manipulate, output, end, 'nuff said.
On Amiga forum; users dismissing the use of outdated technology over "good reasons".
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On Amiga forum; users dismissing the use of outdated technology over "good reasons".
I agree it does seem ironic... But this isn't really about "outdated technology", as much as it is about simply getting data out of the analogue domain and into the digital domain.
For the sake of efficiency and manipulation we need to get things into the digital domain as soon as possible :)
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576i (or 480i in North America) is less expensive and higher quality than 720p or 1080i? In which universe do you live?
Mainly curriosity, I feel digital is either expensive or lacking quality.
I guess you get what you pay for.
It would be nice to see how an external genlock would work if the mini-mig had an amiga rgb output to genlock with.
Basically I just do not know how to leave stuff alone.
B)
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It sounds like we need a digital/analog input on these FPGA machines.
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576i (or 480i in North America) is less expensive and higher quality than 720p or 1080i? In which universe do you live?
My understanding of what he said is that for the same price analogue is better than digital, for digital to be better than analogue then you have to spend more money.
For live mixing you can probably pick up old analogue equipment cheaper than you can pick up new digital equipment. Part of that is that so few people want to do live mixing these days, because doing everything off line is cheaper while back in the day it was off line that was expensive. So old stuff is worthless and new stuff has to make a lot of money to recover the investment.
For off line then digital is better and so cheap that it's not worth considering analogue.
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Does anyone make an USB control panel or keyboard with the keys and knobs that some of the genlocks had?
Maybe something that looks like a stand alone camera switcher.