You can probably see from the header info, I am
submitting this question through a couple of groups
to which I belong, so any of you who also belong to
any of these overlapping groups, I apologize in
advance for the length of the question and the
possible redundancy of the posting in your mail box.
I need to show the action which is happening on a web
page in an upcoming iMovieHD video project. At first I
thought I could just capture the action (using
subjective camera technique) with a program like Snapz
from my (main production machine) eMac 1.25 gig.
Unfortunately, unless I am doing something wrong, it
must be too processor intensive, since it produced
unacceptable spurts, freezes, and stutters in its
capture, which were unacceptable to watch and would be
a nightmare to clean up!
I then thought "old school!" If I could avoid the
flickering from the source and capture frame rate
differences, I could just shoot the screen of a
computer which was visiting the page. Since I don't
have a 5 leaf shutter in my camera and wouldn't know
where to find one or for that matter how to afford
such a camera, it dawned on me that the LCD screen of
my PowerBook 3400 would not have the flicker to
contend with. I thought I was home free!
The problem is that since the 3400 lives in the OS 8.6
world, and is forced to use IE 5.1 to view the page,
it too suffers from spurts and stops even with my high
speed cable modem connection speed. (While the
shuttering is better than Snapz, it would still be a
giant pain to edit out the dead spots.)
Finally My Question:
Does anyone know of a way that we can have the PB
3400c act as an additional screen and have it mirror
one of my faster machine like my 9600 which has a
Sonnet G4 card or my eMac, both of which do not suffer
the stutters?
Or for that matter, does anyone have a completely
different suggestion as to how to produce this shot?
Don Wakefield
DTPetc! (DeskTop Productions et cetera!)
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