Step43: Scanning videos

28 Sep, 1989 | Demo

Digitalisation

I’ve met Christophe "Elric", one of Kreator friend. He had an amiga and one device for making capture from video source. I can not remember the name but it was surely something like «Digi view».

You have to send a composite signal to the cardwridge. That means it can only scan one color.

As it take time (few seconds) the image need to be static. It can not digitalise a video.

There were also a system with color filter if you were using a camera. We never used it as the input was a VCR.

Doing some scans

So we made some tests pluging a VCR recorder, or a camrecorder on Amiga.

This is a funny picture of Kreator (on the left), Elric (bottom right) and me on the back. What is more funny is that the scan of picture took some time, so we had to keep immobile for one minute, waiting for the scan to be finished..

Kreator strangling me.

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Our friends, the Care Bears («Bisounours» in french). I’ve made later a demo saying «japanese anime are bad», but it was never released and I liked japanese anime.

«Coluche», one of the best humorist in the 80′

«Les nuls», humorists of the 80′. Alain Chabat (on the back) and Bruno Carette (front). Bruno Carette died two years ago. From this session, we decided to create a «Tribute demo» to Bruno (see next article).

My mother gently organised the new year eve at home. So we made a video and scan some picture on the 1 January of 1992.

The people on the photos :

Winnie / JonnhyB (x2) /Winnie

Can not remember / Elric / Aces / Manhunter

Aces / Can not remember x2 / Oriens (me)

My mom / GLG

Cool demos that used scans

The Snowman by Modnoc, 1987 | Atari ST Demo

One of the first demo I’ve seen on Atari st was the «snowman»

Remastered version in 2009

I remember having that demo on Atari ST, the same year I discovered Dungeon master.

NewTek Demo Reel 1

This is also a classic of 1987.

Ackerlight – Space Bubbles #01 – Amiga Slideshow

Scan of Boris Vallejo. Video have been removed from Youtube for right problems. You can find infos here

Links

French article about Digi View Gold :http://obligement.free.fr/articles/digiview4.php

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.