Anapan wrote:
Ohyeah, I've also successfully recorded video from a gameboy camera connected to a Super Gameboy, connected to a video capture card through s-video at original resolution and quality tho that took a lot of tweaking and was quite difficult.
Ok, Nathan needs to incorporate GB video in his next music video. Maybe a PXL-2000 too.
Anapan wrote:
Ohyeah, I've also successfully recorded video from a gameboy camera connected to a Super Gameboy, connected to a video capture card through s-video at original resolution and quality tho that took a lot of tweaking and was quite difficult.
Ok, Nathan needs to incorporate GB video in his next music video. Maybe a PXL-2000 too.
Heh, I was thinking the same thing about the NeoGeo music video, but sync and timing issues made me miss the deadline so it got put on the back shelf. I've been "chipping" away at it tho.
The PXL-2000 is something I would never expect to see mentioned here. I love that little guy. My oldest brother still uses his on professional shoots occasionally. You just cannot duplicate its look. Sadly a group started using it to make porn, so you find "pxl porn" about as often as you find actual uses of it.
If you havent seen the film Nadja, they use it for the vampires perspective:
That's that infrared video camera, right? I heard of some interesting uses of it, like seeing remote control signals to your tv and such. I wish I had a chance to play around with one.
Here's the setup I used for the gb camera recording.
Somewhere I have the settings I used to get the 1:1 recording of SNES pixels, the FPS the gameboy camera uses for screen updates and how to convert the slow motion video back into 30FPS realtime video.
I would be interested in knowing more about that setup Anapan. What is your capturing medium/capture card?
I am making what is pretty much an independent film in the near future and was looking for a unique way to portray a security camera and this is just perfect.
Anapan wrote:That's that infrared video camera, right?
The PXL 2000 is the Fisher Price toy camera that records on audio tapes. It records low res, B&W, and only 15 FPS. They're pretty pricey now and lots of them are modded to be better then they were new. I don't have one and I'm not one to make 'films' or whatnot, but I think they're pretty cool.
Anapan wrote:That's that infrared video camera, right? I heard of some interesting uses of it, like seeing remote control signals to your tv and such. I wish I had a chance to play around with one.
Here's the setup I used for the gb camera recording.
Somewhere I have the settings I used to get the 1:1 recording of SNES pixels, the FPS the gameboy camera uses for screen updates and how to convert the slow motion video back into 30FPS realtime video.
alright, wait. I'm lost now. WHAT were you filming? It looks like the camera is aimed at the laptop?
fastbilly1 wrote:I would be interested in knowing more about that setup Anapan. What is your capturing medium/capture card?
I am making what is pretty much an independent film in the near future and was looking for a unique way to portray a security camera and this is just perfect.
I can't find the piece of paper I wrote the exact settings on, but it'll turn up and I'll post them when I find it. I used Virtualdub's capture mode to record the footage into the HuffYUV lossless codec at at I think 9 FPS. The reason I used the laptop for video playback is because CRTs have visible v-blank even on the Gameboy Camera's imager (so I just used the TV to mirror the laptop's video since I had it covered to reduce outside light. I used the worst, cheapest capture card I have actually, a USB device from the Source by Circuit City called a Nexxtech Computer TV box. It was developed by Orbyx model no: 2516449. The difficult part was setting the capture size and cropping to include all the overscan and also take it out to leave all the pixels at 1:1. Those settings are critical because otherwise the pixels the SNES outputs are smeared over a larger area leaving a horizontally blurry picture. The last thing I did was compare the colors in a screenshot of the Super Gameboy 2 ROM to my output and adjusted the capture card's brightness, contrast and hue until they matched as well as the settings were able to do. I'll post more info as I remember or find it, or I may just recreate the entire setup to properly document how it was done.
