Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #04702



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:05:19 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Contest videos, was Summer projects....


The frame rate would be comparable to:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/7667/walk5.avi
That's about the best my pathetic CPU can muster.

Also, I need somewhere to post these videos for the contest. I could open
multiple geo accounts but would prefer if someone could volunteer some temporary
web storage. Thanks

Chiu

Bob Shannon wrote:

> You bet thats what I've been doing!
>
> Say, it seems that my digital camera has much too low a frame rate to capture
> this innovative form of motion thing I've got going here.
>
> If I send you a NTSC VHS tape and you convert it into a digital format, what will
> the resulting frame rate be? If the video drops frames, this things movements look
>
> totally impossible and non-sensical, almost like clay-mation on heavy drugs.
>
> I dont think I can capture it with my USB camera, based on preliminary tests.
> But its cool enough already that I can easily borrow a VHS camcorder to make
> the videos. I noticed the mention of tapes on the contest page, so I thought I'd
> start asking now....
>
> Would it be best of everyone's videos had the same frame rates?

--
Chiu-Yuan Fang
chiumanfu@home.com
ICQ=5614919
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html

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