How to capture video
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The goal of this page is to help describe different methods of capturing video to some kind of medium. If you see something that isn't on here, feel free to add it! Initial info is from this post on the scanlines forum.
Stand-alone
Sometimes you don't want to have a computer involved while recording.
VHS
- Takes composite input
- Machines are currently pretty much free to get started with
- Records to VHS tapes
- Tapes are cheap
S-VHS
- Takes composite / svid input
- Records to S-VHS and VHS tapes
- demo of vhs vs shvs
Rescan
The art of pointing a camera at a screen
- This is a playlist trying out rescanning at different resolutions (480,720,1080,4k)
this video discusses some of the points you’ll need to address when rescanning a CRT
- Things of Note – set camera to 1/60 (NTSC) / 1/50 (PAL) shutter speed – turn off lights in room and/or utilize/make a monitor hood – adjust back light on monitor if possible otherwise adjust brightness/iso until a desirable image is found. – on my camera in a dark room an iso of 100/200 is necessary for rescanning
Cameras used for rescan:
I’m using a mevo plus (only because the place I work for bought one and it isn’t getting used currently) I would not really recommend this camera unless you understand how it works as it is weird… that being said a newer version has been released so this version is fairly cheap on ebay now.
Black Magic hyperdeck shuttle 2
Black magic hyperdeck shuttle 2
- Takes SDI / HDMI input
- Rechargeable
- Records to SSDs
- demo of LZX system
Details:
In order to get a useable input into the hyperdeck shuttle from the LZX visual cortex component output use the Extron 300a to get the video into the YUV colorspace.
AV > microSD
- Composite input
- Composite + HDMI outputs (only one at a time)
- saves as .avi
- [demo with raspberry pi synth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEjp-XkEkXs&