RE: Any Video Loopers?

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 12:34 AM -0800 3/15/99, Stevaum@aol.com wrote:
>
>It would be possible to do video looping today, if you:
>       - could locate two 1/2" reel-to-reel video machines in excellent
>working
>          condition; as well as some 1/2" reel-to-reel video tapes
>       - could customize existing equipment to your specifications
>       - had access to some commercial(1" or 2") video machines (which
>I've never
>          had the opportunity to try) (this was suggested to me by Bob 
>Henry)

wouldn't it be much easier to do all of this digitally?

>It's hard to literarily describe what unsynced video looks like, but it's 
>an
>unstable, horizontally scanning, messed up image (i don't know if that
>description does you any good?)!

I would think that a decent monitor would recover the sync pretty quickly
after it crossed that cut point... Probably wouldn't be too much different
than a tv encountering some brief interference.....

kim

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