I’ve been playing around with timelapse stuff for awhile now..Here’s a quick short I put together with some testing I did today.

Watch in HD – Looks much better!

Images combined via Quicktime Pro and vid put together in Vegas Pro.

First scene is an image every 8 seconds over 50 minutes
Second scene is every 15 seconds over an hour.
These were both done with an interval timer. Both from my balcony.

Last scene was every 20 seconds, with camera connected to a laptop running Canon’s EOS Utility over a 1hr30min period. This was done in Easter down in Rye. Unfortunately I re-sized the images prior so quality is poorer. Shame the clouds came through otherwise the stars would have come through nicely.

Put together another short video.

Still haven’t painted it, have put speaker grilles on and also put in some LED lights for the top marquee and moves section. These give a nice ambient light if you want to play in the dark at the moment.

Used some Contact for the front of the CP, just to stop sweat and crap soaking into the bare MDF. Contact is the stuff you used to use in school to cover your books and stuff with.

Planning to try vinyl wrap to cover the cab..have to do some testing first and see how it goes. Here’s some updated photos.

Sarah bought me a 24″ Vewlix clone arcade cabinet..since i’m going to Japan on Monday I whacked it together unpainted at the moment..and don’t mind it.

It has a paewang revolution dual PCB, and a few other bits and pieces.

The BACK/Turbo button is linked together as well, saves having another button on the CP.

First game/Test (Excuse the the crappy sped up video..handbrake screwed me on the compression and yeah..oops..cbf redoing it.)

Few pics..

More soon!

I picked up a Asus VE246H 24″ LCD Monitor today and was interested in seeing what the whole “Input Lag” thing was about…now, I decided to post this just FYI – I didn’t do any indepth reading on the topic, I just figured well..you connect a CRT, plug in a LCD – and snap a photo…so if theres something not done to standard..too bad!

My current setup is an Xbox 360 connected to a Denon amp via HDMI, and then from the Denon out to my Panasonic TH-42PX8A Plasma via HDMI.

Photos were taken on a Canon 40D, 50mm 1.8 @ 1/1600 on H burst mode. (6.5fps)

All test compared to a Dell 17″ CRT monitor (its numbers on the left).

Only milliseconds displayed from the stopwatch at Flatpanels.dk

Asus VE246H input lag test results (Standard mode, via DVI)
033 – 033
183 – 183
350 – 350
483 – 500 *17ms
666 – 666

2nd run (Standard mode, via HDMI)
217 – 217
384 – 384
517 – 517
684 – 684
834 – 851 *17ms
001 – 001

Panasonic TH-42PX8A input lag test results (Denon Amp HDMI Passthrough)

250 – 266 * 16ms

517 – 534 * 17ms
034 – 051 * 17ms
217 – 217
351 – 367 * 16ms
517 – 534 * 17ms
667 – 684 * 17ms
834 – 851 * 17ms
984 – 001 * 17ms
166 – 166

Dell E207WFPc input lag test results (DVI)
283 – 283
133 – 150 * 17ms
300 – 283 *17ms
450 – 450
600 – 600

Can post photos somewhere if people really want to see the results for themselves. Makes me wonder how out of 3 different devices they are all always 16-17ms out (when they are) – Could the camera’s people are using to take photos be a factor?

At some tourney’s I have played on LCDs and have definitely felt a slight difference..IE move just doesn’t come out…and same thing happened when I connected up the LCD for a little. I guess input lag does have a slight slight difference, but its all what you’re used to. There’s an obvious between the plasma setup I play on and the directly connected LCD screens @ tourneys, etc. Will see how I adjust to LCD in the next few weeks.

Installed a program called Dropbox yesterday.

If you have a few computers/devices (I.e Desktop PC, Laptop, iPad/Phone, etc) and want an easy way to backup and share files/photos between these then you should get this program.

It will setup a folder on each of your computers and then whatever you put in it – will be synced and available through all your other devices with Dropbox installed – and online too.

The service is free, but only for a maximum of 2GB of data. If you sign up via this link then we’ll both get an extra 250mb of space.

Very easy to setup. The iPad functionality is pretty cool..its easy for me to drop a bookmark into the dropbox folder and then be able to visit it on the iPad.

You can put photos in it and easily share them online via a link.

For me, since I have all these devices everywhere and need an easy way to share between them – this saves me emailing or copying between. Also, if your PCs are all on the same network (i.e at home) – Its smart enough to not send things out through the internet, and then re-download it on the PC..it will use your local network to do all transfers.

Awesome.