Hi Zach, First off thank you for your detailed and inspiring response! It helps to know about the shutter. If you have time to answer them, I have several questions and would greatly appreciate your feedback either here or off-list to help me further conceptualize my project. I must to say that I haven't worked in Max yet and I'm a little lost on a few principles that your system is based on.
• The general interface/communication. From what I can glean the camera is initialized into a video mode, then motor advances the film one frame, the arduino /+ PWM controller power on the LEDs once and TC Controller captures this event as a single frame in a video? Lather, rinse, repeat... • It'd be helpful to see screencaps of the capture and frame sensor settings just to get an idea of what other control your system affords • At what bit depth are you capturing? • When the software checks the sprocket hole brightness do you use this to automatically configure the color space values? • Would something like the Blackmagic Ultrastudio Mini suffice in place of the Matrox? • Specs of the machine running this • LED specs • Motor specs • Important characteristics of the projector? I'd assume an easily removable gate, no Kodak worm gear BS, so on... • Amount of time to capture 100' of film (~20' for capture only?) • Could you theoretically implement a WFM or histogram into TC Controller? I don't want to belittle your efforts as I realize I may be asking the 'wrong' questions in certain cases here or that many of these points are why it takes time to successfully implement something such as this. I really applaud what you've been able to accomplish. So far I've approached it from a much different perspective in that I've retained the AC motors and just analyzed the mechanical characteristics to work with a nice piece of software that was written by someone else. I like that the JK allows me to switch formats, though the ability to do S16/optical tracks without buying another gate is very exciting. I'd never heard of AEO before so that's very helpful. Thanks, Chris
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