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- Irlam Instruments News
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- 1. All our scanning hardware and software (and
- everything else except Moving i-Mage which relies
- on A400/A5000 style video expansion or genlock
- connector) works on Risc PC and takes advantage of
- true colour modes.
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- 2. New software for 24 bit Logitech Colour hand
- scanner now features direct scanning to disc and
- real-time preview in colour. This allows you to
- scan without large amounts of main memory free
- and to see exactly what you are scanning. Also:
- - Powerful colour map controls allow the response
- curves for each colour component to be adjusted
- and alterations previewed in real-time. This is
- useful for adjusting colour balance for printing
- and special effects.
- - 32 bit sprite format, plus 24 bit Clear and
- industry standard TIFF and JPEG files.
- - Expansion card supplied for A5000, A400 and
- RISC PC.
- - Brightness, Gamma correction and Sharpness
- controls.
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- 3. ProI-Mage now supports the new A4 Colour
- flat-bed SCSI scanner from Canon the IX-4015.
- This has an optical resolution of 400dpi and
- interpolates up to 800 dpi in colour and 1200 dpi
- monochrome/256 greyscales. This scanner has a
- very small footprint. We have a bundle which
- includes Scanner, ProI-Mage and leads
- for only £699 ex VAT.
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- 4. We are shortly releasing a new real-time video
- digitiser '24i16' which builds on the skills
- we have developed for various products including
- the Acorn Replay DIY kit. The new digitiser is 24
- bit and can capture up to 768 pixels by 288 lines
- as standard (a complete TV field). It also
- supports up to 1Mbyte of VRAM which allows full
- frame images up to 768 by 576 to be grabbed in
- real-time. Inputs can be PAL or S-Video from
- studio, off-air or domestic sources including
- VCRs, Camcorders and Still video cameras.
- Contrast, brightness, saturation and hue are
- software adjustable.
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- This card has not only a high-quality video
- digitiser but also boasts a 16 bit stereo sound
- sampler which can record direct-to-disc from 5KHz
- up to CD (44.1KHz) and DAT (48KHz) rates. 16 bit
- Samples can also be played back through the card.
- Raw (i.e unfiltered) audio from the built-in VIDC
- sound system can be fed to the card and filtered
- to give improved sound quality and this may also
- be mixed with the 16 bit system using independant
- volume controls.
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- Of course, this card grabs video and audio in
- real-time simultaneously to disc so that Replay
- movies can be captured. Video is scaled and
- filtered in hardware using state-of-the-art
- devices so that the images are properly
- anti-aliased. The size of the images in the movie
- and their frame rate is adjustable by the user
- along with audio sample rate and format. So for
- the first time it is possible for the user to
- grab movies of different sizes other than the
- so-called standard 160 pixel by 128 line
- resolution.
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- 24i16 will be available when you read this and
- costs £359 excluding VAT.
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