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Suggestion for video scratching
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Suggestion for video scratching

Johnny 1 Move 12:51 PM - 22 December, 2007
After playing with it for about an hour it has occured to me that flares and so on don't really get represented well by the video.

For example (assuming scratch fader transition is on), if you're doing 3-clickers you should get 8 flashes of the video per beat whereas you only get 6 as the "fake click" you get when the records changes direction does not impact the transition effect, it only alters the direction. This means you do not get the rigid strobe effect in the video to match the sound of the scratch

In theory you could monitor play direction and put the fake click back in to the video, and maybe also monitor play speed so that if you're doing faderless scratches by stopping the record it would also cut the video.

This combined with this -> www.scratchlive.net would give a video representation that more matched the sound of various scratches

Even baby scratches would benefit from this treatment...
iKutZ 1:07 PM - 22 December, 2007
I like the sound of that actually. When the timecode (vinyl) changes direction there should be one frame (or short customisable timeperiod) dropped to black...

In fact you could that one step further and link the speed of vinyl and opacity(birghtness of video).e.g.

When the deck is playing at 50%speed or above the image is at 100% brightness
as the speed drops below 50% then the brightness drops right down to zero when the vinyl stops.

this would then work for any scratch with a "fake click" or turn on the scratch. Also tears would look cool and also deck kills and power kills...
Johnny 1 Move 1:09 PM - 22 December, 2007
Tone routines would look tres cool with that :-)
Johnny 1 Move 1:15 PM - 22 December, 2007
Oh, and with the scratch fader transition it should not drop to black on direction change, it should cut back to the other video.

It should go 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2

instead of Black - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - Black - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 2

where 1 is the video for the tunes you're scratching over and 2 is the video being scratched
iKutZ 1:18 PM - 22 December, 2007
Yeah... you could even elaborate on that further,

How about instead of brightness you can directly link timecode speed to hue wheel so as the speed changes it rotates through the colours where 100% is normal colour or 0-degress and then when you go upto +/-8 (or whatever boundry you set it goes through 360-degrees).

I suppose if there was a way toimplement that you could technically have any parameter for any video effect controlled by record speed