FrameMachine
Company
Electronic Design, Germany |
Date
1992 |
Amiga
A3000, A4000 |
Interface
Zorro II, video slot |
Autoconfig ID
10676 / 1 |
realtime digitizer/framegrabber
- SVHS (Y/C) and FBAS (CVBS) inputs
- standard 23 pin male connector (compatible with the usual Amiga video connector) which is without the Prism24 add-on useless
- I2C-Bus connector
- supports both PAL and NTSC video standards
- supported resolutions: 720×570, 360×285, 240×192, 180×144, 120×96
- overscan is controllable by software
- 1 MB 30 ns Video Field RAM
- digitizer uses 4:1:1 video sampling, Prism24 uses 4:2:2
- digitized video can be read from the onboard video RAM as raw-data in double buffering mode
- the Xilinx chip performs realtime scaling of the video data and provides an interface for the Prism24 board
- revision 2 boards support AGA, the older ones not
- optional Denise adaptor for Amiga 2000
- VHI driver
optional Prism 24 () Digital Video Processor and Time Base Corrector module
- the Prism 24 activates the 23 pin video connector
- it can pass-through the digitized video or perform red, green, blue, colour, brightness and contrast adjustments to the output
- adds genlock capability to the FrameMachine, taking the Amiga’s video signal from the video slot
- the genlock features are:
- FrameMachine mode
- Amiga mode
- Amiga over FrameMachine Key mode
- FrameMachine over Amiga mode
- “B0-Keying” mode (color B0 is transparent)
- with FrameMachine’s realtime video features, it can do PIP (picture in picture) of real video and computer video on one screen
- combined with a standard external Amiga Genlock, there is also the possibility to do PIP of two real video sources together with an Amiga overlay
- AGA compatible Prism 24s have jumpers which allow the selection of the machine type
manuals
drivers & installation