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<br><div><div>On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:37 PM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><div style="font-size: 13px; ">There is the old favorite TBC that is all forgiving and allows for unique control. It is the most beautiful system ever devised. Requires the use of two pieces of equipment and some care.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "> </div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Take an under scanned black and white monitor and shoot it with a camera. Then you have all sorts of control via knobs on the monitor and the camera. The monitor acts as a beautiful sponge. If you have a fast time constant in the monitor, then you do not see any flagging. Use a dark room to get rid of reflections.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "> </div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">I have done that in the past and it works. </div><div style="font-size: 13px; "> </div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Chris Hill</div></font></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Same idea behind the slow-scan to NTSC frame rate converter for the moon shots, with an added disc recorder to repeat frames as needed.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I used the same "shoot a monitor" technique when working in a 3/4" suite that lacked a second TBC for A-B roll.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We had some color composite Commodore computer monitors that we used for general purposes around the facility. No underscan, but had good pictures for video or computer signals.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I put one of those in a dark room, put tape over the camera tally light and with bars on the screen adjusted framing, zoom and focus as needed to get the image size needed with minimum Moiré. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>With a properly chipped 3-Saticon camera, I found that I usually needed to reduce the brightness, contrast and saturation on the monitor but got a very nice picture I could shade from the CCU if needed. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Like horror movie SFX, it worked well if you didn't keep full-screen stuff up longer than needed to get through the transition and to the next cut. Picture-in-picture shots worked better, and I'd put the monitor in a box wipe to eliminate any curved edges of the monitor.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ah, the olden days when chewing gum and bailing wire were still useable.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ted</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>