glenn bristol

absolutely amazing.. beautiful.. w00t! makes me want to actually do something serious with all these silly time-lapses i've been collecting ;)

an idea: get yourself on MySpace.com , a little-big community of "Friends" and acquaintances, but also a place for lots of bands trying to make a break in the scene. listen to their music, grab a track and make a video for them, or ask if they'd like one. I'm sure most of them will help you as much as they can in getting equipment, they'll help you get a camera, etc, but if you're willing to do the work, then you've got a large, willing and needy audience of people who need music vids, and a huge audience of (mostly) young people on MySpace who will see it... often times bands already have video material, they just dont have anybody to put them together. just an idea. there's a few other sites like this with start-up musicians/bands who would love to get a video going... if you wanna get yourself known, and get your feet wet, this might be the easiest way to go... and give you something to send out on DVD/CD to other video producers to show them what you can do... just thoughts.

ouch! :blink: maybe i'll rethink this all a bit... :unsure: so are there any other options i should/could be looking into?? all i need is DVD quality, i.e. 720x576...

big thanks to both of you! i've already started shopping for a cheap dv/d8 cam off of ebay right now, something to play with :D as for resolution, i don't necessarily need digital camera quality, anything better than NTSC/PAL is usually fine for most of my projects... what time-lapse requires faster than 4 seconds? well.. for one the clouds around here tend to move INCREDIBLY fast, @ 5s intervals the end result is usually very choppy. more importantly are things like insects and people (at events like parties or juggling/artist camps) where the action is fast enough that every 1-3s would be more suitable. every 5-7s loses a lot of whats happening as between frames people have literally come and left the frame, it's very difficult to watch a time-lapsed movie when people are already gone before you knew they were there... granted i do play with the movies and sync them up to music with a lot of back-and-forth between frames to give the audience a chance to follow whats going on... .ehm if you wanna know what i'm trying to explain, there are some of my more interesting examples @ glenneroo.org ...have a look at any of the following and maybe you'll understand what i'm blabbering about :P - Festival of Fiery Arts, Friday chill-out - fire people, happy people, v1 - UNFINISHED - Day-time chill-out @ Waldviertel regular filming and cutting out frames is also an option i've considered, but then i have less control and i don't have individual images anymore. i'd have to somehow splice it all into bits and pieces to work with.. not to mention i don't think it'd be very pratical (or possible or cost-efficient) for, say, 4-72 hour projects which tend to be what i do most of...

that's sorta what i thought, but it never hurts to ask...? :blink: i guess i'm just tryin to find a cheap way to merge the two worlds to get the best of both... digital cameras can only take pictures and send them over the usb cable so fast, i.e. SLOW @ about 4s between shots for 1024x768, 6s for 1600x1200, etc., the "movie mode" function is nothing, output via video cable is always t.v. quality, however, a security cam might be the way to go... i should have also prolly posted this elsewhere than the super8 forum... ooops sorry! :huh:

so, feel free to laugh good and hearty, however after some serious googling i still haven't answered my question, and that doesn't happen often :P anyhoo, i've been time-lapsing all sorts of stuff recently using a canon digital cam + some software i whipped together using their SDK, but i dont really wanna keep buying digicams to put in different locations, thus i'm looking into Super8, mostly because apparently everybody who's ever done time-lapse has done it at one point in time or another with S8... i assume for a good reason :D my question is.. can i somehow hook up a S8 cam to a computer via some cable and record frames this way without having to use a cassette or anything else? just, say, a cable and write/use a prog that captures frames via a tv-tuner card, for instance? has anyone ever thought about this? is it even possible? are there better ways to go about this than what i'm proposing? i'm trying to avoid spending 400-1500 on a DV/cam, developing film, buying rolls of film, etc... (everything digital so i can work with it, i usually don't need more than DVD quality, i.e. 720x576) any advice or "hints" where i should be looking are greatly appreciated!!! btw, if anybody'd like to see what i've put together so far, feel free to take a gander over @ www.glenneroo.org :)