Very good. Not long ago someone posted a video showcasing the HD capabilities of some new digital video camera, but I can't find it. Not a lot to go on I know, but any linkage for me?

Discovery channel's preditors discover their ad-hungry Killer Clips (a.k.a. "Animal faces of death") - a series of highly popular 30- to 40-second clips of animal takedowns featuring a.o. "cheetahs killing gazelles the same way they did (just to be on the safe side) 3000 years ago" - in their deep digitized video vaults..

>> ^filantropo:
amateur digital video for the masses.
take that, authorities without knowledge of the present-day technocratic-free-for-all society. Huuunnn (humping gesture)


choggie.

amateur digital video for the masses.

take that, authorities without knowledge of the present-day technocratic-free-for-all society. Huuunnn (humping gesture)

I think how good digital video looks depends a lot on who's shooting it -- if you look at, say, Zodiac, that looks very film-like and is in fact a damn good looking movie. On the other hand you have something like 21, which looks awful and cheap.

And I was skeptical about digital projection, but after seeing a few films projected that way I'm sold. It's always in perfect focus (I guess it's calibrated digitally, unlike a film projector, though I'm not sure about that), and of course there's no scratches or reel changes.

Hi and thanks for your kind replies.

I am working on a documentary film on those much maligned and misunderstood subjects of truth and reality.
It will look at the history and evolution of philosophy and science since the time of the ancient Greek philosophers.
While doing that I will make about 20 short videos on the central subjects of physics and philosophy. So I look forward to having them sifted and getting feedback.
My partner Karene works on the sexuality section of our philosophy site. We are going to make videos on our 18 main subject pages from the sex study she is doing. Should be completed over next 3 months.

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/sex/

And we have just spent $15,000 dollars on latest film quality digital video camera (plus accessories.). Looks really cool - but i don't get it till early January.

http://www.dvuser.co.uk/content.php?CID=171

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/film-screenplays/philosophy-movies-on-truth-reality.htm

Karene and I live on 650 acres of bush on the South West Coast of Australia - it is absolutely beautiful here - big Karri forests, Jarrah, peppermints, lovely coastal heath and mix of sandy white beaches, limestone cliffs and granite outcrops.
I love nature - and just hate the way humanity is destroying it! So that is my ultimate motive - to help save Nature as a way of saving humanity. And I believe that knowing the truth about things is the best foundation (yes, I am one of those odd natural philosophers - we spend our time reading thinking and writing on truth and reality).

This was going to be a short reply - became a bit of a polemic. Sorry. Tis meant kindly and with thanks,
Cosmic cheers,
Geoff Haselhurst

I've used a simple black and white 5,000 fps hi-speed digital video camera for a project. Needed a lot of light. Favorite thing I recorded for fun was spraying a stack of playing cards into the air, '52-card-pick-up' style; they all bounced off and redirected each other in the air as they were flying.

... flicking a lighter was really cool, too.

cross-dresser meg.. the actual copyright is the videographer and whoever made the digital video that got uploaded to the internets. The zoo can go pound sand, but possibly can sue you if they have rules about filming on their property.

The way I look at it, cellphones and lots of other gadgets have short lifetimes anyway, so why not use it for those devices. Or make the displays easily replaceable, through some kind of universal connection kinda like USB and make it compatible with lots of different devices... that way it could be used lots of different ways instead of just on one device, like to show someone your photos on your camera, or video cam, or portable digital video/music device... maybe even gaming devices too, although for that low resolution isn't going to work.

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Was this shot on digital video then? Didn't look like a film camera.

Here's something I REALLY don't understand. Why can't NASA place a REALLY good digital video camera on board, with internal memory that records the descent and or the touchdown site after the probe has landed? You know.. something with REAL colors, and at least 30FPS (I'm not even gonna say HD image quality, because that would be pushing it).
I know that the data transfers must be really slow between the probe and earth, so a video or picture takes a long time. But if the camera could have several gig's of internal memory (and let's face it... how big would a camera really be with the technology they must have access to?)
And records to the internal memory, and after it stops recording, it starts trasfering the data. Even if it takes days to download a 1gb video, I'm sure it would beat these really crappy images.
I know I'm being stupid... but does any of you know why something like that is never done?

I can't explain it . . . but they can:


<Protrude, Flow> uses magnetic fluid, sound, and moving images. Affected by the sounds and spectators' voices in the exhibition place, the three-dimensional patterns of magnetic fluid transform in various ways, and simultaneously its flowing movement and dynamic transformations are projected on the wide screen.

The magnetic fluid appears as a black fluid. It is made by dissolving ferro magnetic micro-powder in a solvent such as water or oil, and it remains strongly magnetic even in the fluid condition. Therefore, it is more flexibly transformable than iron sand and so it is possible to create more complicated three-dimensional organic patterns. That appear occasionally as pointed mountains or pliable organic shapes, sometimes as flowing particle streams.

The transformation of magnetic fluid is caused by the interaction with environmental sound. The sounds in the exhibition place (sounds created by artists, and voices of spectators) are caught by a microphone hanging from the ceiling, and then a computer converts the sound amplitude to electromagnetic voltage which determines the strength of the magnetic field. At the same time, the magnetic fluid changes its three-dimensional patterns sequentially. Each pattern appears synchronized to the environmental sound and the points of the shapes move correspondingly. As a result, magnetic fluid pulsates according to the sound. A digital video camera captures images of the moving magnetic fluid, and projects it on the screen.

I can't explain it . . . but they can:


<Protrude, Flow> uses magnetic fluid, sound, and moving images. Affected by the sounds and spectators' voices in the exhibition place, the three-dimensional patterns of magnetic fluid transform in various ways, and simultaneously its flowing movement and dynamic transformations are projected on the wide screen.

The magnetic fluid appears as a black fluid. It is made by dissolving ferro magnetic micro-powder in a solvent such as water or oil, and it remains strongly magnetic even in the fluid condition. Therefore, it is more flexibly transformable than iron sand and so it is possible to create more complicated three-dimensional organic patterns. That appear occasionally as pointed mountains or pliable organic shapes, sometimes as flowing particle streams.

The transformation of magnetic fluid is caused by the interaction with environmental sound. The sounds in the exhibition place (sounds created by artists, and voices of spectators) are caught by a microphone hanging from the ceiling, and then a computer converts the sound amplitude to electromagnetic voltage which determines the strength of the magnetic field. At the same time, the magnetic fluid changes its three-dimensional patterns sequentially. Each pattern appears synchronized to the environmental sound and the points of the shapes move correspondingly. As a result, magnetic fluid pulsates according to the sound. A digital video camera captures images of the moving magnetic fluid, and projects it on the screen.

Huh? Worst green screen? When this was made, it defined the state of the art in both green screen and music videos. Charlex, the company that made this, did a lot of work in this style including the opening for a number of seasons of Saturday Night Live. This was long before digital video editing, so they had to run a dozen analog 1" videotape machines at the same time to produce all these layers, and used a pair of the biggest video switchers made to key it all together.

Try to view things in context please. Yes, you could reproduce it on a home PC now (though it would still require a bit of rendering), but at the time it was an amazing achievement. It won "Video of the Year" over Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Herbie Hancock's "Rockit".

I hate the "comment" attachments that Grouper allows. It would be a great feature if the vid comments related to the primary video (i.e. demonstration of pinsetting in the 50s or clips from the Big Lebowski).

As it stands, it is a haven of nonsense for any dork with a digital video cam.