Working on cutting together a full version of the luminance for Metamorphoses… I have 5 captures so far, but will need more. Lining them up with one of the full-color captures, at some points there are small gaps that will need to be filled in.
I’ve also found a lot of dropped frames in at least one of those captures, which complicates things further. Just one dropped frame will cause a capture to lose sync with another, and in some cases whole seconds were lost while recording. It got me wondering about just how complete my full-color captures are.
Fortunately, comparing the color captures didn’t take long, thanks to the “difference” blending mode in After Effects. If two frames are the same, they’ll appear black. Any differences will show in white. Out of 6 full-color captures, three appear to have no dropped frames
My VCR continues to be quite finicky… It seems like every time I go to use it, I have to take it apart to bend the grounding tabs back into place.
I wanted to get another capture of the tape this morning before work, but fixing the grounding would have been too much of a hassle. After work, I adjusted those tabs, but the VCR back together… and now it seems like the motor that tape’s reels isn’t working. This might have to be a weekend problem.
