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I am working on an action film and there is a desire to put a 3k moveable zenon on a crane to track a Huey helicopter at fairly close range, approx. 100'high...
The simplest idea would be to rent a heavy duty remote controlled camera head and put the light (or any non moving light) on it Lock it down and use the...
Marc Rosenthal
marc@...
Sep 2, 2005 6:47 pm
8123
... Yikes. May be able to rig up a GPS in the helo and another at the light and have a computer computer pointing direction on the fly, but creating ...
... Surplus auto-guided missile electronics? I'll bet you can get "only used once" pretty cheap. :) -- Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 219 Oak Wood...
... Interesting idea. A Huey is probably a pretty good IR target from the back, but I don't know how good it is from the front or side, and this is probably ...
... I think that's also the best idea. If you make a tape of the camera output for "possible inclusion in the movie", then you should be able to get a trained...
Try thinking along the lines of a camera jib with a remote head. Some of those will track from a tripod head's movements. So if you mount a small camera on the...
That brings up a minor note that DMX has lags in it. The lag is slight; but, if the motion is not predictable an operator might find the lag is just enough to...
I like the idea of the light being on a camera head controlled by a camera operator. I'm always amazed how well the camera operators for the PGA televised...
I'd love to watch them tracking a Huey being flown in an evasive manner to the limits of its capabilities. That might be a bit if a strain on the PGA camera...
There is already an off the shelf solution from Martin Lighting called Track Pod. Uses an operator and a tripod with or with out a handy cam on the tripod to...
Braham Ciddor
bciddor@...
Sep 3, 2005 7:56 am
8133
In message <EE1321E81480944797BCAA80B205B2F1307E1B@...>, Braham Ciddor <bciddor@...> writes ... Martin also used to do an...
... I'll bet ultrasonic doesn't work well outdoors with a working helicopter. :) -- Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 219 Oak Wood Way Los Gatos,...
I'm forwarding this email at the request of Rob Brown, from the SFX Users List. I thought since there is a significant number of users who deal with RS232 on...
Hello Richard, Could it be an inter character delay issue? What are SFX inter-character delay timing requirements? Some protocols have short response timeout...
... This appears to show that the wires are connected the right way around, so whether or not you have a null modem, the current setup is correct. I attempted...
If he needs to use the hand shake signals, DTR and RTS, for pacing the serial data, his serial USB dongle may be his problem. Most of the cheap ones on E-Bay...
... THAT I hadn't seen, the ones we sell are pretty much the basic unit but they work fine. One thing to remember with handshaking, Windows (and probably some...
... Oh, its true. The stuff based on FTDI chips seems to work correctly, but there are (or have been in the last few years) any number of the $9 kind of USB...
... In that case, I'll have to be careful to keep getting these better ones. Thanks for the heads-up. BTW, some pretty poor designs (like some Microchip...
In message <0aa001c5b0ef$968bbde0$1225a8c0@kittycat>, jdow <jdow@...> writes ... Elektor (a European electronics magazine) did an interesting article...
It is definitely the case that all USB serial port adapters are not created equal. One that a large number of people (including me) have found satisfactory...
Even though we make serial adapters using either the FTDI or Cygnal (now Silicon Laboratories) chips, I snapped up three HP laptops for trade show use last...
Doug Mobley
doug@...
Sep 4, 2005 10:43 am
8147
Hi, Most easy seems to be: Replace the parameter wheels by some device, which gives you more feeling. You can link this with midi to the lighting desk. What...
... I did a speed test on our DMX box once using USB 1.1 and a Pentium- III computer. It ran about 400K bits/second. Back a number of years ago, I did a USB...
Oh yes, I also see a lot of devices saying "High Speed USB 2.0" in bold print. In finer print you see "12Mb/s USB 2.0". Err guys, that's USB 1.1 ("Full...
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