Filming tricks

[Seabreeze12]

Is it possible to fade and recreate a image with a super-8 video camera? A clear example would be like the Micheal Jaclson video where his face turns into other faces. Kinda like a lap dissolve.

[MovieStuff]

I think the bigger trick would be finding a "super 8 video camera" to attempt this with.

Roger

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[8th Man]

Roger's not takin' no guff from no one today.
Seabreeze, it's actually not an uncommon mistake to assume that super-8 is a video format, a lot of people do. It's a film format, not 8mm video.
As for doing dissolves, lots of cameras can do this with in-camera ddouble exposures, but it would be easier to do the effect with a computer editing system after transfering the film footafe to video.
Now at this point I'd like to see if they can make Micheal Jackson's face look human again.

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[8th Man]

Roger's not takin' no guff from no one today.
Seabreeze, it's actually not an uncommon mistake to assume that super-8 is a video format, a lot of people do. It's a film format, not 8mm video.
As for doing dissolves, lots of cameras can do this with in-camera double exposures, but it would be easier to do the effect with a computer editing system after transfering the film footage to video.
Now at this point I'd like to see if they can make Micheal Jackson's face look human again.

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[Matt Pacini]

This is not fading from one face to another.
It's Morphing.
See my response to your other post on this topic (by the way, don't start a new topic when you're really meaning to post again to the same one....)

Matt Pacini

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[#Pedro]

To answer the question, what?s possible with some S8 FILM cameras is a real LAP DISSOLVE. You fade a szene out while stopping the take up drive at the same time. Then you keep the shutter closed an rewind the film until start of the fade out comes into the gate again. Now you overlay a fade in and continue shooting the second szene. The result is a film, where on szene is developing itself out of the last one.
When doing it in-camera, the advantage is that the result keeps on film and can be projected.
Pedro

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[8th Man]

Yeah, he is talking about morphing, but I kinda assumed he was goig to attempt a similar effect with cross dissolves like the old Lon Chany wolfman transformation. These days it might actually be a nice thing to see the effect done sans the overused morphing technique.

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