Analogue-Digital Visual Effects [Under Construction]

I’ve organized specific visual effects into 6 main groups, each linked to pages with visual examples and details of the workflow to achieve the footage, many actually combining aspects among the 6 groups:

 

AUDIO-TRIGGERED VISUALS

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At present I offer three types of visuals triggered by audio (voice, music, sound effects, or different combinations): a vintage 1976 Atari Video Music generator which translates audio into iconic blocky, blazing colour forms; a vintage 1980s Showtime Video Ventures Video Colorizer which creates of pools of blossoming colours similar to solarized images, except in deeply saturated primary colours; and triggered waves & patterns filmed off the CRT monitors of analogue Oscilloscopes, Vectorscopes, and Waveform ‘scopes, using digital or analogue cameras, captured either to videotape or digitally as a ProRes or AVI file for subsequent compositing.

 

CRT FILMING

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Footage is sent to a variety of CRT monitors (large & medium colour, small B&W, and eenie-weeenie camera viewfinder) and filmed using digital or analogue cameras, captured either to videotape or digitally as a ProRes or AVI file for subsequent compositing.

 

GLITCHING, NOISE, DISTORTION, BLURRING, & FEEDBACK

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Instead of generic digital emulation, the real deal: running video through analogue processors, amplifiers, manually degrading signals, blurring footage with analogue filters, and re-filming footage off monitors using glitchy cameras with naturally degrading components.

 

TAPE BOUNCE-BACK

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Although some plugins will evoke ‘the VHS’ and ‘video tape look’, why settle for emulations when you can have your digital footage in whatever ratio bounced to videotape – VHS, SVHS, Digital8, Betacam SP – and back to digital as ProRes MOV or AVI files?

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TITLES / TEXT via ANALOGUE CHARACTER GENERATORS

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Every conceivable font is available for editing workstations, but if you need text, crawls, or corrupted characters via analogue processors and custom degradation stemming from primordial or semi-sophisticated analogue character generators from the 1980s and 1990s, no problem: I use vintage CG’s by Knox, Videonics, RCA, JVC, Scriptovision, and more, including blocky in-camera character generators.

 

VIDEO MIXING & SEG EFFECTS & FEEDBACK

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Drawing from a substantive collection of vintage prosumer and broadcast mixers and special effects generators, footage can be treated with classic mosaic, tinting / painting, negative, strobe, multi-screen effects, and more. Brands include Panasonic, Showtime Video Ventures, Shomi, and more.

 

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ADDITIONAL SERVICES

 

VIDEO CONVERSIONS (NTSC / PAL / SECAM) + DIGITAL TRANSFERS (BETAMAX, VHS,VHS-C, S-VHS, VIDEO 8, HI8, DIGITAL 8, MINIDV, BETACAM, U-MATIC) to DIGITAL FORMATS

 

TRANSFERRING ANALOGUE MEDIA (LPs + AUDIO CASSETTES) to CD + DIGITAL FORMATS

 

EDITING / MIXING / RESTORING (MUSIC + VOICE) for FILM + PODCASTS

 


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