When you get it running then we can expect new FX on the channel from it then? Should be good to see, though you will have to get an old VCR to get the blank video plus sync for it to run properly.
hmm, for nice retro video feel? Somehow i think Sony Vegas on my PC might just be able to outperform this lump of 80s tech!
if i do get the touch screen controller working though i will make a demo of it's capabilities, i have already recorded the turn-on test patterns on my DVR so can burn that to DVD and then rip that on the PC to load into Vegas so i should be able to do it in pretty decent quality.
I also have a Hi8 video camera i can use as a source. I just need to sort a second source to do transitions. I dont believe it can do blends without the optional BIM (mixer) boards so i think crossfades are out but it can do overlays like page-turns, tumbles, slides, PiP, warps, waves & keying in addition to normal manipulation like colour, brightness, pan, scan, zoom, perspective, skew, borders. There are lots of options for manipulating the video timings too including an encryption option which looks to be similar to VideoCrypt.
The touch screen controller looks really quite complex after reading the user guides so i am looking forward to seeing it... hopefully i can source a copy of the system disks.
The P164 can run from either an internal or external timebase so i dont need to feed it with a separate sync thankfully
