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Offline wawrzon

Re: Recommended setup for amateur video art project?
« on: December 15, 2008, 06:57:10 PM »
lol. lets say that is an ambicious project. well, since to my knowledge none ever built super8 (or any other celuloid film) digitizer for amiga and last time i cared it was still a proffesional task to transfer film to video, this would be most difficult part. amigas were widely used for linetesting animations but this is a task that needs just a table you put your cell drawings on with a video camera mounted atop feeding a simple digitizer. but then you would have to make a photoprint of every frame you want to use, what istn exactly practical nor easy.
what concerns non linear editing of video material on amiga im just putting together a vlabmotion-system meant to digitaze my analogue videos. im still unsure if it pays at all, but do not have appropriate pc for my old av-master card anymore. i have par dsp card running in another machine but this is not a flexible solution for editing videos, and still there is digital broadcaster (very rare) and video toaster system (only ntsc) as alternative, but dont ask me anything about it
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Recommended setup for amateur video art project?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2008, 09:19:35 PM »
i did some sort od video editing using my olde trusty a1200 i still own along the others in the beginning to mid 90ies. this was possible with 030, later 060 card and a simple digitizer the name of i do not recall anymore. this was drawn sequences, raytracing and also some hand edited video footage, mostly taken out of existing movies. the resolution in question was mostly half of pal, 256 colors or ham8 either 368x283 or 368x576 in interlace (using ssa animation technique like in clarissa). all that was fed back to the studio hi8 deck via amiga chipset at circa 12fps if i recall right.
well that is not much, but pretty much none i knew was able to do any such videoediting at the time, except that the videomixer and the hi8 deck in the academy of arts i was using the studio could do some fancy wipes and subtiteling, but that was it.
with all that mjpg boards like vlabmotion video capture in high quality is not a problem. ive already tried the dce par and it has better capabilities than avmaster that i got 98 for the pc. the problem is to edit the video, since amiga lacks nonlinear software and well working 24bit painting package except for tvpaint3.6 or maybe photogenics.

edit: well, when i put my vlab machine together i will be able to tell more.