Video Request Forum

[Tysk]

oh oh oh oh oh oh I want to try my hand at that....!

[Alphageek]

It could be done in 3dsMax. But, it would be a huge project. The trees, and the ancillary buildings, and background hills really add to the realism. They used fog and motion blur, both nice effects.

Yous should note that we already have a fair bit of Avalon in a 3D model Yes, it's a big project, but it's something we'll need to do anyways.

[mman454]

How about a video showing how to safely use and make a Rubens Tube?

[Alaness]

I'd quite like to see a instructional video on making a full DIY camera rig

[Alphageek]

like what?

[SparkyProjects]

Camera 'rigs' come in many flavours.
Tripod mount
Studio style dolly with hydraulic rise and fall
Boom mount and crane mount (yes there's a difference)
'Steadicam' mount
Fig rig
Dolly
Spider (similar to dolly)
Cable rig


*Camera boom: simple boom mounted on a base to allow multi axis movement
*Camera crane: similar to a real life crane and like the boom in movement that can also be extended

Also bear in mind that DIY can only be for what materials you have at hand or can buy cheaply, one man's instruction may not be suitable for another, so really only a'general idea' can be shown if you intend to use what you have to hand with very little purchasing of new material.

For instance, i've built 2 booms, one from aluminium shelf support rails at about 10 feet, another from the strings of a ladder going to 25 feet (sectional)

[Alaness]

well I was thinking more along the lines of rails, matt box, shoulder mount, focus pulling wheal & focus whip. It would also be nice to see a DIY vibrating DoF adapter.

A decent video on this will be VERY popular on youtube

[sleepurrr]

I wouldn't mind a vid on DIY IC's. like how to make homebrew diodes and pnp npn transistors with crystals or other cheap or easy to find materials.
How to make a bridge rectifier and what it does.
How to make an amplifier.
How to make a Veriac?
We've got vids on beer bottle caps, but no pencil lead potentiometers and what they're good for. A project like adjusting sound on a speaker or something cooler.
An Old school homemade radio would be neat.
Home brew electroplating, or electric etching. Safety and how to.
One on sound and harmonics. and applications in circuits or music.

[Chriskarr]

I'd be happy to do a video on how to make a variac, given I have Mr. Boden's 'permission' and support in the matter. If I'm not going to be helping out, what's the point when I have a perfectly good variac?

I have a toroidal core, as well as a fair number of iron sheets (and a good deal of what would otherwise be 'scrap' magnet wire).

I could also do the homemade diodes video, granted they were to be Al-Oxide electrolytic rectifiers..

P.S. This video wouldn't be shot on my back porch but, instead, in a nice, white-floored, metal-walled building on a nice, white table.

[sleepurrr]

Sounds good. send me a link if it doesn't get on TGG channel , my youtube name is pi55hat (long short boring story)

How about a video that shows how three way switches work. Even after visiting this http://home.howstuffworks.com/three-way.htm I still don't understand.

Did this ever get answered? I love 3way switches. its endless the number of switches you can add once you know the concept. I wish i had some DPDT switches .

[rikere]

I've got one on DIY/Home Video type stuff, though I'm not even sure this would work DIY...

Back 2 years ago or so, we were looking for an easy chroma-key in my Junior High, unfortunately, the budget didn't have room for your typical approach... (I was student and this thing was just cool). We actually got a mirror and LED based chroma-key system. You hang a special backdrop up that to the naked eye is just shiny, reflective and cloth. On the camera we had a special LED ring, when the lights from the ring hit the screen, they reflected back in an almost perfect chroma-key...

I'm not sure if its something that can easily be done, but it would be cool to see something like it. Put a green light gel on a flashlight, shine it at a mirror and get a chroma-key from it... Just an idea, I remember when I saw it they had to about drag me away from our switcher computer and its kinda geeky/science...

Another thing, small, probably just a few minutes thing around lights/temperature and cause/effect. If you've ever had to change a high-heat light (stage/auditorium), its forbidden to touch the glass, if you touch it, probably within 20 minutes of use, the lightbulb will have a growth coming off wherever you touched it... It would be something different to disect and fairly quick...

Just some ideas...

[Cprossu]

Back 2 years ago or so, we were looking for an easy chroma-key in my Junior High, unfortunately, the budget didn't have room for your typical approach... (I was student and this thing was just cool). We actually got a mirror and LED based chroma-key system. You hang a special backdrop up that to the naked eye is just shiny, reflective and cloth. On the camera we had a special LED ring, when the lights from the ring hit the screen, they reflected back in an almost perfect chroma-key.

back 5 years ago, we painted one wall green, another wall blue, and lit the piss out of it.

[rikere]

Tried that... VT5 didn't wanna key it right, yet an old analog switcher did it just fine... I just thought it was an interesting way to produce a chromakey...

[Cprossu]

well we did sort of cheat-
We brought the panatone chart with us to a sherwin-williams and had them mix us a couple special batches

[Alphageek]

If you ever have to mix it in the future, for a standard greenscreen you want Pantone code 354. For a standard Bluescreen you want Pantone code 2735. Make sure they mix it on a FLAT MATTE base (Semi-gloss is standard and you'll want to kill yourself within an hour).