The camera resolution is actually 2560 x 1944 so obviously it will scale down to 640 x 480 and look good (in terms of line quality/sharpness) but how does the aspect ratio look ? Does it automatically put in the 'black bars' at top and bottom of image or on sides to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio ? Or does the camera adapt to whatever aspect ratio the user sets in TVP, so 4:3 or 16:9 is used depending on whether the project size is set to 1280 x 720 (16:9) or something like 1600 x 1200 (4:3).

pencil test for quick upload to a website or YouTube at 640 x 480. How does it manage with different aspect ratios in TVPaint ? I think if it captures at high-resolution (2560 x 1944) then with adequate lighting on the drawings and then running the Scan Cleaner FX on the captured images it could be good enough quality to color the captured images, yes ? Even with slow refresh rate you mention I bet it is still faster than scanning on a flatbed scanner. Thank you for the report ! I think I will add this to the list of recommended camera/capture devices for my students. You will probably need additional light (the one available is not powerful enough), but once again, the Scan-Cleaner will be your friend if you plan to do animation. I leaveįabrice wrote:ok, we got the material and tested it. PS : there is no peg bar with it, you have to find one. I'm going to take it with me when demo-ing TVPaint.

I think it's a good tool to use TVPaint and paper. It's hard to set the height of the lens, but I don't think it's a real problem. You will probably need additionnal light (the one available is not powerful enough), but once again, the Scan-Cleaner will be your friend if you plan to do animation. The refresh rate is not really good in Hi-Res, but usable for line-testing or I should say image grabing purpose. The max resolution is 2560 x 1944 so it's actually higher than HD. (in addition, if you use the TVPaint Scan-Cleaner after line testing, it's pretty good, since 95% of the pixels are removed, and you keep the black lines.) The lens doesn't have a perfect quality to get the colors exactly, but if you work in black and white for line testing, it's goog enough. It's basically a webcam so you don't need to install anything, plug the USB cable and use it ! On Linux, we need to do a few changes in the software, so you will need TVPaint Animation 10. There is no driver CD and it's actually working fine on TVPaint Animation 9.5 on MAC and PC.

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