A question about film production?

[emorej]

I am filming a movie with Video 8 and I am filming a computer screen. What techniques can be used to make the computer screen clear on camera instead of being jumpy.

[Mark Jury]

um, none really.

[Greco]

There really is no way to get the "jumps" out. You can help it a little with a high quality camera, but I can't promise results. A computer uses a different video scan. The jumps you see are really progressive scan lines.

[cash]

If you have a video card you can either just superimpose an image onto the screen, or you can turn on the TV output mode and recored the computer screen onto video and just edit so its what your charcters see.

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[RedRaven]

Following on from the last reply, if you have a capture card you could disconnect your PC monitor and put a small television in its place, and take the out-put from your capture card and feed it into the TV. That way you could get a "live" image from the PC onto the screen, and you would be able to film it with a video camera (as TV screens are different to monitors).

[stop_thief]

Just make the room completely dark and fool around with all the little buttons on the computer monitor and your camera's exposure level and/or shutter speed until it looks right.