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- We're posting the following announcement/update for the information
- of fellow QuickTime devlopers. We'd welcome your responses and would
- like to open a discussion on low-cost QuickTime...
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- MR Shot1 LC Video Digitiser Info Announcement/Update December 1991
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- by Robin & Sue Frost, Frost Software Consultancy (AppleLink HOL0350)
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- The MR Shot1/LC from Display Research Laboratory in Hong Kong is a high
- performance video digitiser for the Mac LC, for both QuickTime movie recording
- and "Still Image" DTP/Presentation use.
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- Frost Software Consultancy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands have teamed up with
- DRL to provide bundled software support for the excellent MR Shot1.
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- MR Shot1/LC will display "live" motion video onscreen up to about 256 x 192, in
- 8-bit specially rendered colour or greyscale. Even half size video at about
- 350 x 250 is acceptable for many applications, such as video disk stills or
- slow-moving video.
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- Grabbing is realtime, 25 or 30 fps for images of scale 3-4 or below. Scaling
- factors of 1 to 8 are available.
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- It can grab 16-bit and 24-color images to memory, at up to full PAL/NTSC
- resolution.
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- A totally unique feature of MR Shot1 is its specially rendered 8-bit
- display/grab mode. There is innovative DRL-designed custom silicon on the board
- which does special dithering in time and space so the result looks like 16-bit
- video to the eye.
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- This makes MR Shot1 ideal for low-cost info kiosk, training, CNN watching and
- other motion video display applications using an 8-bit display depth.
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- When grabbing still images it can grab up to full resolution PAL/NTSC, in
- greyscale, 8-bit, 16-bit or 24-bit.
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- The card is shipping currently with FSC bundled software support for
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- • still image grabbing FKEY + application
- • HyperCard/SuperCard motion video display and image grabbing XCMD
- • a PICS recording application (prior to the QuickTime launch only).
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- • QuickTime support is being readied for the QT launch at MacWorld (see below).
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- The board has three inputs: one S-Video and the other two Composite, and works
- with either NTSC or PAL, autosensing each video input so you can actually mix
- n'match video standards (!). A World-Standard digitiser card.
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- QuickTime Update
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- FSC now have a prototyped QuickTime application which will record greyscale,
- 8-bit and, most importantly, 16-bit colour movies which are perfectly matched
- to the Video compressor. This will be completed ready for the QuickTime launch.
-
- Recording at 172 x 144 (scale 4) or smaller we are grabbing to DISK at around
- 10 frames per second. This is the same digitising speed as reported for a Mac
- IIfx with Rasterops 364 @ 160 x 120 by MacWeek magazine ! FSC are very pleased
- with the results, particularly as these were achieved using a standard 40MB LC
- internal drive.
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- Grabbing to memory MR Shot1 can achieve real time rates.
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- Due to the excellent video quality (all video processing is digitial) the
- movies compress very well with the roadpizza Video compressor achieving 4 - 5
- to 1 even for these small images.
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- The combination of MR Shot1 and Adobe's Premiere QuickTime video editing
- software is a great match - enabling a low-cost QuickTime movie making solution
- based on the Mac LC.
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- Mok Siu-Cheung, CEO of Display Research Laboratory will also be attending the
- Pacific Market Forum at MacWorld in January. DRL are the only manuafacturer of
- Macintosh add-on products in the Far East.
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- Distribution enquiries are still be welcomed worldwide, please contact Mok
- Siu-Cheung at DRL.
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- For more info contact :
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- Mok Siu-Cheung
- Display Research Laboratory, Hong Kong
- tel: +852-526-0008 fax: +852-877-8810
- AppleLink: FEP0010 e-mail/Internet: FEP0010@applelink@apple.com
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- Robin/Sue Frost
- Frost Software Consultancy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- tel: +31-20-6464107 fax: +31-20-6464213
- AppleLink HOL0350 Compuserve 100015,254
- e-mail/Internet: HOL0350@applelink@apple.com
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- Author: HOL0350
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- Repsoted
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- Author: TONI.T
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