Sun rasterfile animation to video on the cheap
FILLMORE at EMRCAN.bitnet
FILLMORE at EMRCAN.bitnet
Thu Jul 19 05:13:00 AEST 1990
I would like to take an informal poll of various animation techniques
being used the Sun community. We have an application running in Patran on
our Sun 3/60 color workstation. It will generate several hundred Sun
rasterfiles, and our goal is to transfer these images to S-VHS videotape.
Basically I think we need a Sun-compatible genlock to convert RGB to NTSC,
including the extra S-VHS output. We should be able to get a high-end
S-VHS VCR with single-frame capability. We could generate this animation
manually by hitting a key on the Sun keyboard to display the next image,
then hitting a button on the VCR, over and over. It would be nice to have
a little more sophistication by using the Sun serial port to control the
VCR.
Alternatively, is there a way to display a sequence of Sun rasterfiles
quickly enough to go directly to video tape without stopping the VCR? (On
our Sun using the screenload command in a loop is not quite fast enough)
Is anyone doing anything like this on the cheap? Does anyone have
recommendations for Sun-compatible genlocks? Any other comments? Please
include model numbers, prices and phone numbers if possible. I will
summarize the responses for the list.
Bob Fillmore, Systems Software & Communications BITNET: FILLMORE at EMRCAN
Computer Services Centre. BIX: bfillmore
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