After the test cards, what?
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:36 pm
I have just joined this forum, becoming interested in NBTV and have looked at all the great apparatus built by members and shown on the Loughboro' archives of photos on the NBTVA web site. Also many other sites on the web.
As I have already mentioned on the forum of, The British Heritage Television Project, my concern is that after looking at test cards etc what next?
I would like to be able to transfer, say, Laurel and Hardy films to NBTV.
The problem here is that if one uses, say, a 625/32 line converter, this is a 'catch all' image system, whereas NBTV requires big close ups of just part of the whole image.
So, I wonder if any NBTVA member has investigated ways of projecting 8/super8/16mm film and using a NBTV camera to go in close to capture the essential big close ups?
Are there lack of lighting problems I wonder?
My first thoughts were that one could either directly adjust the film projector speed right down to sync with NBTV or use, say, the film sprocket holes to trigger a single frame take on a slightly modified NBTV camera (to o/p a single NBTV frame on being triggered).
This could then be then recorded into a PC, the blank film 'pull down' time being removed later? This seems a relatively simple way without getting involved in yet more equipment.
In both these cases big close ups of Laurel and Hardy could be obtained onto the NBTV camera.......or Arnold Schwarzenegger if that is your preference !
Albert.
As I have already mentioned on the forum of, The British Heritage Television Project, my concern is that after looking at test cards etc what next?
I would like to be able to transfer, say, Laurel and Hardy films to NBTV.
The problem here is that if one uses, say, a 625/32 line converter, this is a 'catch all' image system, whereas NBTV requires big close ups of just part of the whole image.
So, I wonder if any NBTVA member has investigated ways of projecting 8/super8/16mm film and using a NBTV camera to go in close to capture the essential big close ups?
Are there lack of lighting problems I wonder?
My first thoughts were that one could either directly adjust the film projector speed right down to sync with NBTV or use, say, the film sprocket holes to trigger a single frame take on a slightly modified NBTV camera (to o/p a single NBTV frame on being triggered).
This could then be then recorded into a PC, the blank film 'pull down' time being removed later? This seems a relatively simple way without getting involved in yet more equipment.
In both these cases big close ups of Laurel and Hardy could be obtained onto the NBTV camera.......or Arnold Schwarzenegger if that is your preference !
Albert.