Were C64's used in editing video like the Amigas - also need Amiga keyboard?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > Were C64's used in editing video like the Amigas - also need Amiga
> > keyboard?
> 
> I am pretty sure people recorded graphical output from early Micros as 
> some sorta of poor mans character generator/title generator. Probalbly 
> couldn't overlay without a very expensive genlock though. Not sure if 
> there were deck control solutions for doing assemble editing based on time 
> and serial deck control for C64?

I never saw deck controllers, though it wouldn't have been difficult to 
homebrew one. When we used a C64 to do some titling for a school project,
we just directly recorded the output to the VCR. I do believe there were
some genlock products around but I never used one.

> The Newtek toaster and other add-on are in a whole different 
> league versus what the C64 could do.
> 
> There were crude capture devices also. Maybe ComputerEyes existed for C64?

It did; I have one on the shelf. However, I get much better quality taking
a frame on the Mac and dithering it, tbh, so I hardly use it anymore. CE was
a very slow means of capturing frames and a VCR with wobbly tracking on
pause didn't help the quality any.

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