The Time-Lapse VCR
Added 2019-02-01 00:01:57 +0000 UTCAlright, spoilers are over!
This was a surprising adventure in more ways than one. Thank you for making it possible!
This won't go public until Saturday at the very earliest. It depends on how other scheduling things go, but it will likely go out to the World Wide Web on Sunday afternoon or something like that. Possible even Monday.
I still have a few things to do, like captions (which will require a lot of editing this time) but please enjoy!
Comments
Your satire has lately been on-point. Great work!
Kyle Anderson
2019-02-03 00:44:10 +0000 UTCGreat work Alec! I ran two similar machines in the 1990s – one with a "quad" for a homeowners association and one with a new "9-way" for a bowling center.
Dave Pursley
2019-02-02 13:00:30 +0000 UTCI am like Peter Griffin in absolute awe of your video editing kung-fu, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
2019-02-02 10:12:05 +0000 UTCThis was fantastic <3 Spoilers just got me excited to see the final video. I'm still left wondering, though - what drives the tape when it's stepping? It seems to take the pinch-roller off the tape when it starts stepping, so how does that work, it can't possibly be rim-driving the tape! I'm still dying to know that ;)
Matt Falcon
2019-02-02 05:32:36 +0000 UTCExactly!! That rocks the boat.
Chris Blair
2019-02-02 04:42:52 +0000 UTCNice last frame!
Sam Blakey
2019-02-01 23:24:05 +0000 UTCLove the Cosmos shots - I had noticed the tapes in the background and glad they're seeing use.
2019-02-01 06:49:15 +0000 UTCI read in some online article (I forget where or who) about why old computers were usually beige in color. The German government had regulations regarding office equipment that mandated they be in some sort of neutral color, possibly to prevent eyestrain. Since manufacturers didn't want to make differently colored equipment for each market, they just followed the German standard and made all of them beige. Since your featured VCR is for business and not entertainment, Sony probably thought it should be in a "business" color.
Mark Hesse
2019-02-01 04:30:52 +0000 UTCLove the extra production work on this video!
Linh Pham
2019-02-01 03:19:50 +0000 UTCThis was so interesting, I always assumed they were just normal VCRs with marked up prices.
2019-02-01 02:36:56 +0000 UTCThe look is "boring", i think during that time period it definitely didn't have commercial appeal but looking back it that beige and bright color buttons gives it such a nice retro appeal.
Kajico
2019-02-01 01:43:24 +0000 UTCThis video has extraordinarily good technical presentation. I love how the video *is* the demonstration of what you're talking about. You've done that in several of your past videos, but this one takes it to a new height.
Matt Whitlock
2019-02-01 01:38:48 +0000 UTCI'm really happy you simulated the loss of frame sync when you were demonstrating the multi-camera switching.
William Gray
2019-02-01 01:28:01 +0000 UTCI got the shirt here! <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/flemishdog/works/10491601-betamax?p=classic-tee&rbs=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.redbubble.com/people/flemishdog/works/10491601-betamax?p=classic-tee&rbs=</a> I follow the creator of it on Twitter and when they shared it I had to have it that instant! There are tons of great things on RedBubble and I think that if I were to start selling merch I might use them. That's a long way off, though!
Technology Connections
2019-02-01 00:51:02 +0000 UTCAlec, I think our definitions of "magic" are very, very different here, haha! But then I was also wondering what the "exciting new changes coming soon" were for a couple seconds, so...
Kevin Kostka
2019-02-01 00:45:53 +0000 UTCI want that shirt!!! - where did you get it? - also, you could mention that when people did pause the tape and get the snow effect, they were also grinding away the oxide on the tape itself, and you would eventually ruin that portion of the tape if you persist at that, so you never want to have it that way for an extended time, like more than a couple of seconds! :-o
Bill Basch
2019-02-01 00:41:07 +0000 UTCWhoa, nice shirt!
toasterking
2019-02-01 00:18:36 +0000 UTC
