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- From: CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: Recording animations
- Message-ID: <9211122319.AA07871@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:08:35 GMT
- References: <spl@EDU.UCSD.ALEX>
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- On 11 Nov 92 14:26:30 GMT <spl@EDU.UCSD.ALEX> said:
- >In article <9211110425.AA25602@psi.rutgers.edu> CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- > writes:
- >Unlike the (optical) recorders
- >>mentioned below, quality is 'perfect' - unless you want 10 bit per
- >>pixel or HDTV spatial resolution.
- >
- >I'm not sure what the word 'perfect' means here. Certainly, the image
- >quality is better than just about anything else but 'perfect?'
- >... lines (with which I agree!) deleted
- >--
- >Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (619) 534-7968 -- spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu
-
- I meant 'perfect' (and put in quotes) in the sense that the image is
- exactly what it should be according to the CCIR-601 manual. We actually
- write to it in YUV over the parallel digital interface (a YUV
- framestore in the computer mirrors what's in the RGB framestore).
- The quotes were a short-hand for 'at least as good as an 8-bit
- video resolution picture can be'; also an ironic comment on
- Philips' CD line 'Perfect Music - for ever'.
-
- Certainly YUV creates odd effects with single pixels that are
- of significantly different colour to their background - their colours
- twinkle like coloured stars. This is, in general, only visible with
- still frames.
-
- I thought the non-square pixels were going to be a problem, but
- most people just don't notice. This experience came from inadvertently
- running programs I had forgotten to modify: unless the picture was
- actually clipped, no-one complained. It appears that no-one
- *expects* a circle to be circular on a TV, nor to be centred!
-
- Chris Osland
- Atlas Video Facility
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
-