DVD to cine-film conversion?
OK this might sound a bit daft, but if we could convert DVD or MPEG (or whatever) on to cine-film then we could use a relatively cheap projector. Perhaps of use to the handcar?
This is related to Cefn’s home-made projector posting.
Now, this may be a false economy (and I haven’t found anywhere that’ll do this), but I think it could be rather interesting. What do you think?
Cheers,
Dave
Comments
michal on 04 January 2006
I’m not sure but film material is quite expensive, isn’t it? Another obivous disadvantage is that you can’t modify what you “burn”... Nevertheless, I’ve found this discussion of an idea to convert by simply pointing a camera to a LCD screen
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=001297
“video to cine” search reveals a few companies that apparently offer such services.
cefn on 05 January 2006
Mate that’s the best idea I’ve heard in a good while. I’ve bought and been learning about my basic stamp and I suspect it would be possible to write an algorithm which runs with infrared beams or sonar to detect the movement of the people, and control the speed of the cine projector, all with a 9v battery and a PIC. No PC in sight. Nice. Some worries like Michal about the cost of transferring. But even if we faked it, I love the feeling of the flashing projector screen - the clicking - the whole thing.
andrew on 30 August 2006
It sounds like you want an old Polaroid Film Recorder,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_recorder
I’ve seen them for buttons on eBay. Pretty sure you can use normal 35mm slide film. You’d just need a fair bit of it and patience. Or perhaps you could use normal cine stock and recalibrate the thing.
I came across these when researching old computer graphics printing devices - I wanted to see if I could get that primitive but beautiful aesthetic associated with old comp graphics illustrations. Never did get round to doing anything….
Andrew
dave on 07 September 2006
Thanks for the lead!
I’ve seen frames from William Fetter and W. Bernhart’s Atboftb Carrier Landing (1964), where computer printing technology exceeded computer graphics, so they plotted each frame and then filmed it. It’d be fun to to try that!
Dave