the organs; the terrain

In Oh What War, the first thing that we are preparing is an anachronistic/unreliable surveillance system. Mostly the system shows horizons. I have been using horizon images from No Man's Land. There were initially four horizons representing the four geographical directions. The horizons can be characterized by the following attributes:

1)The dead tree

2)desolation

3) Gas pipes

4) barbed wire

Hal said in an email to me:

But one idea that I know some VJ's use and I've toyed with is to use
multiple scan converters zoomed in on areas of a single high resolution
RGB output. (say 1280x1024 will give you 4 standard def image areas)
(that's basicaly how the Matrox device works, but at higher RGB resolutions)
But my scan converters are not 'optimal' for that kind of setup.

I said to Hal in an email:

At first I think the multiple zooms idea won't give me enough control
at this experimental stage of the process.... But after thinking, I like the idea,
especially since we are dealing with horizon imagery and movies could
exist in some very wide format and the monitors could be zoomed in on
various parts. I like the idea that the horizon is one wide clip that
contains all the various terrains...

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Scan Converters

I have some T-View Gold and T-View Micro scan converters, they only zoom into a 320x240 area of the screen. I've got it on my wish list to find some with better zoom functions. I also find that the T-View converters cut the contrast of the signal, mostly by boosting the black up to a gray that I don't really like.

So far none of the specs on scan converters are very specific about what zoom features they have, but quarter screen zoom is pretty common.

The best listings that include user reviews for scan converters that I have found are on http://www.tigerdirect.com
and I have found a few that seem promising.

KWorld PCTV1600
and GrandTec Ultimate XP which has another
review here of an older version.

Hal Eagar
DPI Director

Hal Eagar | Tue, 04/01/2008 - 19:18

Scan Converters

What other device could we use to zoom? Of course we could zoom in Isadora with one movie player and various projectors, however that is still 4 video cards. I like the idea of zooming in the computer on a large jpg. I certainly don't want a washed out image and am worried about the difficulty in controlling the scan converters, which, in my experience are hard to switch gracefully.

Zbigniew
DPI Resident

Mallory Catlett... | Tue, 04/01/2008 - 21:31