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- PEGGER 2.0 Changes August 25, 1994
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- Known incompatabilty between PEGGER and other programs
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- DPS Personal Animation Recorder
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- 12-16-93
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- As of version 1.36 of the PAR software, all known problems
- between PEGGER and the PAR have been fixed.
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- 9-28-93
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- Notes on: The Personal Animation Recorder by
- Digital Processing Systems, Inc.
- and interfacing PEGGER, version 1.2
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- refer: Greg Heifner
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- Several problems and work arounds have been discovered in the operation of
- PEGGER and the Personal Animation Recorder (PAR). Sadly, we could not
- obtain a unit from Digital prior to our release of PEGGER. Only recently I
- personaly purchased one for my own use, after hearing from many pleased
- users of both PEGGER and the PAR.
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- The quality of the PAR is superb and PEGGER greatly enhances it's use. As
- a result we will be learning all we can about the PAR in order to
- potentialy solve the existing problems.
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- The PAR in it's simplest form is a digital hard disk based video recording
- deck. Individual framestores or IFF 24 files are sent to the PAR for
- processing into an animation file or a series of stills. These images are
- stored and played back through the use of a high speed IDE drive that is
- accessed through the PAR software/hardware. Idealy, PEGGER would be used
- to "SNOOP" your directory of stored sequential animation files that are in
- JPEG form. As the PAR file handling software requested the image, PEGGER
- would decompress the file and hand it off to the PAR. Unfortunatly, as
- best we can tell now, the PAR file handling software doesn't support
- several DOS calls needed by PEGGER to handle the files successfully. Not
- all is lost. It is just the PAR file handling software that seems to be
- trouble for us. If you use a file system utility (such as DirMaster,
- DirOpus or PEGGER's batch decompress (DJPEG) window, you'll see that the
- volume "DDR:" is available to you when PAR is running in the background.
- The best way to use PAR is to set up PAR for the animation or still process
- and then just copy the files you need to the proper directory (Project), in
- the volume "DDR:" and the files will be decompressed by snoop, then fed
- directly to the PAR. Or you can just DJPEG the batch to "DDR:" and
- everything will also work smoothly. The conflict is between PEGGER and the
- PAR's file handling utility. When the PAR file handler is active, several
- functions within PEGGER stop operating for some, as of yet, unknown reason.
- None of these symptoms have any "lethal" properties to your system.
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- Here is the best proceedure I have found to single frame record an animation
- from a sequence of JPEG images;
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- 1) Launch the PAR system.
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- 2) Set up the project, filter and anim or still frame functions of PAR.
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- 3) Setup the PAR "Projects" window to highlite the proper project
- (directory) for the incoming frames.
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- 4) Hold left "Amiga" "M" to switch screens to the workbench.
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- 5) Start PEGGER and set up snoop to decompress as IFF24 the directory of
- your JPEG files you wish to process.
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- 6) Start a directory utility such as DirOpus.
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- 7) Copy the needed sequential JPEG files to volume "DDR:"
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- 8) You will see the frames as they are processed on the video output of the
- PAR. When the copy is complete, hit "Amiga" "M" again to switch to the PAR
- screen. The PAR requester should say "DONE." Hit OK and follow the PAR
- requests to name the finished animation file. You're done.
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- Alternate method two involves not using the snoop function of PEGGER
- and just using the batch decompress PEGGER module (DJPEG). The "TO" volume
- would be "DDR:.
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- All the function of the PAR file system work just fine while PEGGER is
- running, it's PEGGER that doesn't like what's going on with the PAR file
- handling system. We will talk to Digital's programer and try to solve the
- problem soon. Although, you may prefer the above methods, as programs like
- DirOpus and DirMaster are much more complete file transfer programs than
- the PAR system is ever likly to be.
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- Deluxe Paint AGA
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- We have discovered a few problems when using Pegger with Deluxe Paint
- AGA which could cause users several headaches. First, there
- appears to be a bug in Deluxe Paint AGA which occurs when trying to
- load a 24-bit IFF image. DPaint will ask you if you want to change
- the screen format to that of the file (X-Resolution x Y-Resolution x
- 24-bit). If the user chooses "yes" on this option, it is assumed that
- the screen format will be one of the AA HAM resolution modes that
- would be closest to the actual resolution of the 24-bit image.
- Unfortunately, DPaint instead opens up a 256 color screen that
- is nearest to the actual image resolution and loads the image as a
- 256-color dithered version of the original 24-bit image; not the HAM8
- image that the user expects! The only way to work around this problem
- is to respond "no" to the 24-bit question that Deluxe Paint asks the
- user. This, of course, assumes that the user has chosen one of
- the AA-HAM modes (using 64 colors) when starting Deluxe Paint AGA. The
- AA-HAM modes using 64 colors are HAM8 modes and the images saved in
- this format are of the type that Pegger is capable of compressing
- (either manually or through the SNOOP process).
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- Secondly, HAM8 resolution IFF images are normally saved with a 64
- color palette. However, Deluxe Paint AGA saves these images out with
- a 256 color palette. This is incorrect for the IFF standard and we
- have had to make Pegger aware of this problem with Deluxe Paint AGA in
- order to correctly compress the HAM8 images. Hopefully, Electronic
- Arts will solve these inconsistencies with Deluxe Paint AGA in the
- future but fortunately for now, we have been able to establish simple
- workarounds for them.
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- Video Toaster - Toaster Paint
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- Toaster Paint can not load IFF 24 images through PEGGER's SNOOP.
- If you try to do this, the image loaded into Toaster Paint will be
- all black. There are two ways around this bug in Toaster Paint.
- First, you could setup PEGGER to SNOOP for Toaster Frame Stores,
- Toaster Paint can load a Frame Store using PEGGER's SNOOP. The
- other option is to set the SNOOP_CRIPPLE tooltype in PEGGER's
- icon to YES. Refer to your PEGGER manual for more information
- on the SNOOP_CRIPPLE tooltype.
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