J O N A S H E I D E S M I T H

Jonas Heide Smith

Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communication,
The IT University of Copenhagen

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Last update
24-08-2004

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Infrequently updated musings vaguely inspired by my PhD project.

Monday, February 28, 2005

A frame in a frame

Are you a techie? I want to combine two video signals - one shows players in a couch, the other shows on-screen game action. And I want to do it with a minimum of post-recording hassle (I don't care so much about the complexity of the set-up).
Right now, what I'm going for is two cameras - and then synching the two signals in Premiere and showing both signals at once in the final movie (as shown in the illustration).
If anyone has better ideas I would just love to hear them.
posted by Jonas Heide Smith # 28.2.05

Comments:

I'm on the case Jonas - I've got an idea that might work, going to test it at work tonight

# posted by Mike Paget : 8:58 PM

Mike,

Wow (as in "cool", not the MMORPG time thief) - that's extremely useful.
I'll see if I can lay my sweaty hands on such a magic box and see if I can get a sensible setup up and running.
I experimented further with the evil Premiere sub-solution and it can potentially work, but the rendering of course is likely to be done only a few minutes before the sun burns out.
So thanks a lot - and yeah, do send me some Warcraft mail and Garrg will be by your side.

- Jonas

# posted by Jonas Heide Smith : 9:17 AM