Filmshooting

Video Fred - have you ever projected the results of your work on the big screen? I'd love to know if the processing holds up the same when blown up 100x or so... I have not seen it on the big screen yet. My source is 1024x768. I resize it to standard PAL. I do this because those files are smaller i...

Do you recall if any of this footage was shot with a Bolex H8? Yes, the Egypt and old 1950's footage was shot with a Bolex. The 1970's Maroc film was made with top equipment: Beaulieu camera and Schneider lens. The 1960's Agfa film was made with a very simple Agfa Movex camera. Have you had any luc...

Mr Blackstock wrote: I have tried using virtualdub, but have been unable to master the programming side of it

Avisynth basics:
http://www.avisynth.org

Here's the thread of my filmscript:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144271

Fred.

Thank you all for the compliments. :oops: I'm still using Avisynth for post processing but I have improved my scripts a lot. The script is removing nearly all dirt spots now. This is because nearly all my transfer work is with old films. I also have a script that leaves the grain as it is. About the...

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Here are some stills from different filmstocks, you can use them for whatever you want.
But I would appreciate it if you mention the source. ;)

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/med ... 1298449764

Fred.

I believe the Bolex anamorphic system utilized a 1.5x compression/squeeze factor. Would you guess the stock being a European version of Kodachrome II? Yes, according to the original author it was European Kodachrome and the used lens was an Iscomorphot. He still owns this lens, I have made an adapt...

I have not heard one person online say that they have successfully achieved widescreen Super 8 and thier methods they have used. A little digital magic can help a lot here. 1958 regular-8 anamorphic footage: http://www.vimeo.com/2823934 This is an older version. In the new version all dirt spots ar...

Fred--after looking at your original comment in the context of the thread, I think I might have misinterpreted your intent. You weren't really saying that a film had to have a story to be good, but that a film made in whatever medium would be good if it had a decent story, correct? Yes, this is wha...

carllooper wrote: Indeed the artist can effectively say nothing while the work does the opposite. In these circumstances the silence of the artist isn't the message. it is simply the silence required for the real message to be heard.

Of cource! Silence can be very powerful.

Fred.

What about films that are not necessarily about "story?" There's always a story. The artist always wants to bring a message. If there is no message, then the message is that the artist has nothing to say. :wink: And the Pet Sounds analogy doesn't fly--we're not talking about the inherent ...

Yes - there can be many reasons why film might be preferred over digital, but all else being equal, greater dynamic range wouldn't be one of them. This is 2010. New technology gets better and better. A good artist will still make good pictures, no matter the medium. Good use of DOF is very very imp...

But in other works, grain can be regarded as just noise. It is not there because the filmmaker necessarily wants it there. It is there due to various limits imposed on the filmmaker. One makes do with the limits. It is not necessarily about particularly enjoying those limits but working within them...

SR is not an illusion of definition as such. It is the reconstruction of actual emperical information - information that was distributed across a number of frames - but otherwise difficult to see in any one single frame. This is exactly what I'm doing with my Avisynth filmscript. By averaging sever...

Check on the works of member videofred http://www.super-8.be before reinventing the wheel. It has all be done. @aj: Not "all" has been done yet, not even by Freddy :) But both Frank and Christoph are working with better machine vision camera's then mine :) Frank has even made custom acqui...