SFXB in new video files shocker!
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 5:30 pm
As you may have gathered from my post earlier this week with the Brian May clip, I've now got my hands on a clever box of tricks which converts VHS into DV and feeds it into a firewire port.The upshot of that technobabble is that I can finally start fleshing out some of the existing entries in Other 80s Stuff with video files of their intros.Because the space on SFXB is finite, I've gone for WMV format. This keeps the size down but does make for slightly blotchier playback in fast moving scenes, I'm afraid.The other knock on effect is that I'll shorly be able to create some new pages using screengrabs where I haven't previously been able to. So you can expect to see some new content over the next few weeks, featuring blokes like these.So I'll now be splitting my time between writing those new pages and working on the 3D side of things, as time allows... Oh, and somewhere down the line, if people would be interested, I'll probably sling together a CD of higher quality intro videos suitable for nostalgia fests. It's just not really doable to put even short VCD quality MPEGs up on the site. I haven't gotten around to playing with DivX yet, but hopefully most machines will play WMV files without falling over, so...