| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 18 May 2001 at 09:38:25 |
| Subject: | Re: VCR to Amiga |
Hello storm
On 18-May-01, storm wrote:
> On 17-May-01, jack.thewlis@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Here's an easy one, but I haven't the foggiest!
>> I need to connect a vcr to my Amiga so I can grab a video frame as an
>> iff file. What hardware/software do I need? What connects where?
>
> A frame grabber like RT24, but to be honest it's hardly worth it imo,
> as the image is 640x480 (which is normal) but usually not too good,
> depending on your source material. It's also very hard to get the
> exact frame you want, unless you have a perfect pause on your vcr.
640x480 is the size for NTSC video frames. PAL frames are 750(approx)
by 576 (exactly).
The reason the width is approximate is that video is analog so there are
no pixels in the scan line.
The _best_ way to grab video frames is with a PAR card, which is Zorro
II hardware. With this, you can grab a few seconds of video (or hours
if you want), and then pick the exact frame. But the PAR was expensive
and may be hard to find.
Regards
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