Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #04816



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:45:15 +0800
Subject: Re: Contest videos, was Re: 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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