GeekdadX7
Active Hunter
Hi guys, I'm a long time lurker, but this is my first actual post.
I'm nearly finished with a rotj boba fett build (not totally screen accurate, but close enough for my deadline of halloween, I can make it better later).
I was in the process of trying to do the cheap DIY chest display from TK409, where you just use the blinking bicycle lights and transparent printouts for a cheap/ghetto looking chest display, and then last night at around 1am I stumbled upon something on youtube and had an idea, which I have nearly finished... and was wondering if anyone else has done anything like it or has any pointers?
I noticed that an extremely awesome person posted a 10 minute video, a close up (and cropped) of their LED Boba Fett chest display blinking through 10 minutes of sequence. I had an idea, which if it'd work, would look 1,000x better than the cheap "blinking light behind transparent printout" display.
I used a firefox add on to download the chest display video from youtube, put it into a cheap video editing program, rotated/resized it with the project settings.... and then copied and pasted that little 10 minute clip over and over and over in the program, to make it so that the 6 minute video of the chest display would play over and over and over for 6 hours.
I loaded it into itunes, put it on my oooooold iphone 4, charged the battery to 100%, and then pressed play on the video.
It is an extremely bright and clear (it is an mp4 video after all playing on an iphone) chest display video, that played for 6 hours straight and used 80% of the iphone 4's battery.
I will post a video of it later tonight if anyone is interested to see what the video looks like on the phone.... but my thought is that instead of having to pay $90 for a full on pro made digital display from tk409 or one of the other display builders..... that for the price of FREE, I have a 6 crystal clear video of the display going, where i can just velcro/attach the phone's screen to the back of the chest armor, so that the display lines up with the cuttouts in the armor.
Have other people done that before? If so, any success with it, or thoughts?
Here is a link to the video clip on youtube that I found:
When you put it into a video program and rotate the picture, and then it's shown on the small screen of an ipod, it comes out really bright and clear, not blurry like it shows on a large monitor.
I'm nearly finished with a rotj boba fett build (not totally screen accurate, but close enough for my deadline of halloween, I can make it better later).
I was in the process of trying to do the cheap DIY chest display from TK409, where you just use the blinking bicycle lights and transparent printouts for a cheap/ghetto looking chest display, and then last night at around 1am I stumbled upon something on youtube and had an idea, which I have nearly finished... and was wondering if anyone else has done anything like it or has any pointers?
I noticed that an extremely awesome person posted a 10 minute video, a close up (and cropped) of their LED Boba Fett chest display blinking through 10 minutes of sequence. I had an idea, which if it'd work, would look 1,000x better than the cheap "blinking light behind transparent printout" display.
I used a firefox add on to download the chest display video from youtube, put it into a cheap video editing program, rotated/resized it with the project settings.... and then copied and pasted that little 10 minute clip over and over and over in the program, to make it so that the 6 minute video of the chest display would play over and over and over for 6 hours.
I loaded it into itunes, put it on my oooooold iphone 4, charged the battery to 100%, and then pressed play on the video.
It is an extremely bright and clear (it is an mp4 video after all playing on an iphone) chest display video, that played for 6 hours straight and used 80% of the iphone 4's battery.
I will post a video of it later tonight if anyone is interested to see what the video looks like on the phone.... but my thought is that instead of having to pay $90 for a full on pro made digital display from tk409 or one of the other display builders..... that for the price of FREE, I have a 6 crystal clear video of the display going, where i can just velcro/attach the phone's screen to the back of the chest armor, so that the display lines up with the cuttouts in the armor.
Have other people done that before? If so, any success with it, or thoughts?
Here is a link to the video clip on youtube that I found:
When you put it into a video program and rotate the picture, and then it's shown on the small screen of an ipod, it comes out really bright and clear, not blurry like it shows on a large monitor.