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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Quality of image conversion
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.181312.17107@unocal.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:13:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.154824.17492@cbfsb.cb.att.com> nqn@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (nam.q.nguyen) writes:
- >Folks,
- >A friend of mine is doing experiments transferring computer images to
- >VHS video cassettes. He experiences a loss of image quality after the
- >transfer. Hardware is a 486 PC with SVGA monitor. Software used to
- >generate the image is: Animation and Autodesk Animator (version 1.0 and
- >2.0). What are ways to improve the quality of this process?
-
- There will be a loss due to information constraints.
- The amount of information you are specifying in VGA is something like
- 640 x 480 x 60 x 8 = 1.47 gigabits per second.
- The fundamental law of information says you have to have an analog encoding
- scheme of twice that rate to fully capture that information.
- However standard TV broadcast signal is 3.5 megahertz and VHS 1-1.5 megahertz
- of signal, so you are getting 0.1% of the orginal information.
- Fortunately, very few monitors can display more than a 100 megahetz of info
- a second- some information is blurred. Furthermore, the human eye is fairly
- forgiving and can be fooled into an illusion of color and motion at a 1 meghertz
- rate. As you have observed, the eye can cetainly tell the difference between
- a 10+ megahertz monitor and VHS tape. Most people can tell the difference
- between broadcast and videotape rates.
-
- More directly answering your question, you are probably not even getting the
- best 1.5 megahetz of your images onto VHS. A direct RGB to NTSC convertor
- helps. Some more expensive PC boards, those used for video, have these.
- If you can get access to super-VHS (3 MHz) or HDTV (10 MHz) video recording
- that will help too.
-