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| carteerma |
| Posted: Sep 27 2002, 08:23 PM |
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There is a machine filmmakers use to transfer film frames into video files. A switch is in the film projector and it connects to a special mouse; when the film frame is in the projector gate and not moveing, the switch activates the mouse for one click; if the mouse pointer is over the proper area one frame of video is captured. VidCap works, Premiere works. It would be nice to have VirtualDub do it, too. |
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Sep 27 2002, 09:12 PM |
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That sounds awesome! But it would probably be a major pain for Avery Lee to implement something like that in VirtualDub, particularly since I suspect that very few people would actually use it. Question: is this a feature that you would use yourself? Maybe you could hook up with a fellow C++ programmer and hack something together.
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| carteerma |
| Posted: Sep 28 2002, 12:41 AM |
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Well, yes, I do do all that and would use it, too, as I am a filmmaker of sorts. Not a programer, however.
Thanks for the reply. |
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| Kippesoep |
| Posted: Oct 9 2002, 01:31 PM |
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Yeah, this feature is very nice in VidCap and I would use it a lot, too. The actual code would not be too difficult. I've been thinking about patching the functionality in myself, but since Avery Lee is working on VD2, putting too much effort into patching the VD1.4.x branch might seem like a waste of time. |
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| carteerma |
| Posted: Oct 9 2002, 03:42 PM |
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Actually, a lot of people may use it since Roger Evans makes a new film transfer machine called the WorkPrinter and Jeff Dodson has written a program just to capture the single frames the WorkPrinter puts out. It doesn't work with Win98se right now but he's working on a revision or so I heard. The Super 8mm Film making community supports them. Final productions do go onto CD disks and DVDs so VirtualDub may be used by them.
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| vidranger |
| Posted: Oct 26 2002, 05:58 PM |
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WorkPrinter Pro is no trivial hardware hack. It is a pro tool lovingly built by a film pro. See his website for clues:
http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_pro_s8.html
I am tracking this thread with great interest as I prefer using VD for film printing instead of dropping back to that pricey hack, Premiere 
so let's see a nice little VD plugin to allow stop motion capture via tricked out mouse clicks. Uh, I'd write it myself but I'm clueless, too, you see....
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| carteerma |
| Posted: Oct 27 2002, 02:34 AM |
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Ahhh, it would be nice to have spill over files for single frame Workprinter captures. I've been doing captures all day after assembling piles of small clips and reels onto one big one. 200 feet of the film has torn sproket holes. That bunch had to be fed into the workprinter backwards and upside down. IT WORKED! Premiere reversed it and flopped it right side up. I can capture about 3K worth of frames, 2500 is 1.4GB using ati yvu9. I sure could use an automatic sequential file maker. |
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