From: bdonison@bigbird.UVic.CA (Only AMIGA!)
Subject: Re: emulating PIP with...
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 17:58:03 GMT

In article <pl159410.714254092@academ01> pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez) writes:
>Lee.Bosch@f601.n105.z1.therose.pdx.com (Lee Bosch) writes:
>
>>OA>I thought that I could use DPaint to make up the slides and then
>>OA>place them ontop of the video. Are there any other nifty ways of
>>OA>doing it?  I want to use some interesting fades/wipes as well for the
>>OA>border pictures.
>
>>  Without some fancy hardware, you CANNOT do fades.  Genlocking
>>requires that a particular color register (zero) be overridden by the
>>video image.  You cannot place any color other than zero on the areas
>>that you want to peek through nor can you do anything to shade that
>>area (aside from dithering in an animated or still image).
>
>The 'fancy hardware', specifically, is either a Video Toaster ($2000) or 
>a SuperGen Genlock ($300) ... the SuperGen can be software-controlled,
>like the VT, but it is limited to fading video and graphics. A slideshow
>can be automated using amigavision (or some oter authoring software) by
>calling up your graphics via keypresses (or mouse clicks) and have the 
>SuperGen fade up your particular graphic(s) on top of incoming video 
>(just like CNN) :) To do this you need the authjoring software to be able 
>to execute DOS commands, and compile the software included with the 
>supergen. Mail me if you need more info!
>
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Thanx for the info.  The SuperGen sounds like a cost effective solution,
but what sort of time would be involved to get the setup to work using
AmigaVision?  If it is too complicated I just might suggest that the
faculty get a video toaster to replace the JVC editing equipment and AmiGen
and the OLD 1000.

There was a multimedia demo here at the University of Victoria, and I saw
some neet stuff done with the Toaster.  Now to sell the idea to my prof!

BTW.  I'm also demoing a few items for my Education prof. AV, DPaint IV,
AM III.  Hopefully they will expand their Amiga section from a 500 and
1000 to some power Amiga systems.  Wish me luck!

Brad...

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