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Bits and Frames
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Welcome to Bits & Frames, a journey through computers, technology, film and video.
Editing video in a 486 with the FPS60
In my recent documentary about DVCAM I talked about the history of digital video and how it evolved from the analogical formats to the non-linear editing. But, how did we edit before DV?
Today I bring to you the FPS60, a video editing card by FAST multimedia released on the mid 90s and designed to work with computers as low as a 486.
So how was video editing when computers were far from actually being... editing capable?
Today I bring to you the FPS60, a video editing card by FAST multimedia released on the mid 90s and designed to work with computers as low as a 486.
So how was video editing when computers were far from actually being... editing capable?
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Mini project: DIY PC Frame
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On my last episode I fixed a Pentium motherboard and I basically mounted the parts directly on the table. This is not recommended for various reasons so given that I want to use this computer for some upcoming videos I thought that having some sort of frame would be great, but, why not just doing it myself?
Fixing a Pentium Motherboard
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For my next series of projects I would like to have a usable computer with ISA expansion slots. So in this video I am going to build a Pentium133 from a pile of parts and replace the Dallas chip that prevents the motherboard from working properly.
The format DVCAM. Short history of digital video.
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It was a lot of work to put together this short documentary about DVCAM. I hope you like it and consider to subscribe. DVCAM is a format developed by Sony and released in 1995. It is a variation of the DV format and it targets the lower end professional market. DVCAM along with DV or as many had known as mini-DV became standards for both amateurs and professionals. An affordable and versatile f...
Testing two MFM drives: Seagate ST-225
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On the 80s, memory was expensive and the first personal computers usually didn’t have a hard drive installed, however when they did, those things were big, heavy and unreliable, perhaps here it comes the name ‘hard drive’. On today’s episode we are going to test 2 Seagate ST-225 drives, that use the MFM interface.
Mini project: Burning discs under the Sun
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Today I want to present you a short video about CD and DVD-ROM, because there is something that I always found interesting about all recordable discs and are these alarming images and messages warning us what not to do, and in special the one warning about exposing the discs to the direct sunlight. But, how much sun is too much? Are my discs safe on the shelf getting a little of the sunset rays...
Pen Cameras
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In this video I am going to review 3 small digital cameras or ‘pen cameras’ from the early 2000’s This type of camera was a low cost option for capturing images on a moment when digital cameras were still quite expensive. The concept ‘pen’ comes from the odd shape they have, that makes them look like that 'neuralizer' device from the movie Men in Black. Designed more as a toy than as a camera, ...
Two 'Peculiar' CD & DVD drives - Pioneer A03 - Vertos 300 SSD
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Today I am going to review 2 drives that for some reasons I find quite interesting. First I am going to take a look at this old double speed Vertos CD-rom that I never managed to make it work in Windows 95 forcing me to but another drive. And second, we will explore the Pioneer A03 DVD recorder, one of the first DVD recorders and the one that made DVD authoring affordable.
JVC DR-M10 Video Recorder review. Records and plays simultaneously!
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Today I am going to review the JVC DR-M10 DVD video recorder. A device that I purchased on 2005 in order to save time while recording DVDs. On the early 2000s the process of DVD authoring was still quite time consuming. Many clients used to ask for copies of videos that my company recorded and that we had stored in tapes. When using VHS we could just simply copy the video from the master tape t...
Old TV Tuners for PC monitors.
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There was a time when watching TV in your computer was a cool thing. Today I will be examining 2 external TV tuners that, back in the days would allow you to watch live TV directly in your computer monitor. The first one is an analog tv tuner while the second one is a digital one, that I purchased years ago to replace the first one when broadcast TV became digital.
Mini Project: Restoring an old mouse
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If you have seen some of my previous videos, some months ago I did a complete restoration of my old 386 computer. But while doing it, I missed to have a mouse for playing some games. Thankfully I found this old Microsoft mouse, and today I am going to restore it.
NAPA CD, MP3 and VCD-Player
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This is the NAPA DAV311 a CD and MP3 player that i purchased in the early 2000. And one of the things that made me chose this model, was that it also was capable of playing video-cd disks. Probably not fancy today, but back then this was pretty cool, let’s take a look
Unboxing a full box of vintage computer components
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Today I have this heavy box packed with vintage computer components. It has been stored for a while so I am not sure what is inside. What treasures will it hide? Let’s take a look!
386 PC Restoration - Part 4
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On the lasts 3 episodes, I have been restoring my old 386 computer, performing a deep clean and replacing some damaged parts. Finally was the turn of the keyboard wich I hope will function again. I hope you enjoy the last episode of the 386 restoration project.
386 PC Restoration - Part 3 - Restoring the keyboard
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386 PC Restoration - Part 3 - Restoring the keyboard
386 PC Restoration - Part 2 - Cleaning and Retrobrighting
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386 PC Restoration - Part 2 - Cleaning and Retrobrighting
386 PC Restoration - Will it work after 20 years stored? - Part 1
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386 PC Restoration - Will it work after 20 years stored? - Part 1
Can you please share the drivers.
Nice. I have a film that can talk on using a USB when working with Windows XP and Windows 11.
Hi, I am restoring the very same computer and it would be really helpful if you could post information on the jumper function/settings. Thanks,
D-Vision had a similar offline editor. You would ingest your logged tapes with timecode, do your edit using half-rez proxies on a 486, export an EDL, and bring the EDL on a floppy along with your source tapes to a rented edit bay to execute on their gear.
Hi there, I've got the same computer (but the 20Mhz version), adn the battery pack was just missing: I can build a new one the way you did, but I wonder if , as I guess , it's connected to the connector marked J12 in the database (just beside the AT P1/P2) connector. In your video looks like it comes from there but it's not visible, what birngs another question: which side is the red cable at, near the J or near the 2 in the J12 connector? I hope you can help.
im restoring this exact computer right now . When you did the retro bright did you have to mask off the tandon logo or the turquoise color strip ? or did you just put the retro bright over those as well?
I used DVCAM from 1998-2011 It was a solid format.
its spposed to be OLD TV TUNER NOT U TRYING TO SELL SOMETHIUNG U WASTE MY TIME
Hi, I lost the manual several years ago. Is anyone could copy the pages and send me by email a pdf?
What does the menu for recorded DVD-Rs on this machine look like?
background music too loud
I love magnetic Tapes ❤❤❤ ❤ 🎉🎉🎉❤
From the time that memory was very expensive.
What software did you use to low level this hard drive, and where can i get a copy?👍
Several years ago, I lost the orginal handbook. Anyone has a copy ?
Great video...
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Nice work! There’s no telling how many times I’ve had to deal with my own design flaws, often scrapping entire projects after spending way too much time on them. Anyway, to reinforce the base I would flip the ends 90° and use two screws for each-or a corner bracket on each side of each end of the frame. Mounted that way they should allow for a sturdy card cage should you decide to add one.
Unfortunately I lost the manual!!! This capture card was my first video capture system!
Yea it needs to be plugged in for anything to show up on screen other than VCD, probably to save batteries.
I have the same! Yea always wonder about the batteries typo. Mine still plays video cd correctly but only when plugged in with the AC adaptor. Your disk is probably scratched. Oh, and by the way, it also plays CD+G mostly used for karaoke.
Just got the same card with the MPEG add-on. Can you share the drivers with me? :) (unfortunately, googling a card called Fast Multimedia FPS60 is not an easy task, I hardly found this video :D ). Also, unfortunately, I don't have the cable, but I could build it I guess. Is there any diagrams about the pinout?
I've got the driver of the Fps60, but not the Mpeg Encoder add-on drivers
@@lauraberetta9651 I found the drivers, I guess the same one as you. :D But the cable is still missing. I even asked Pinnacle if they have the pinout somewhere documented.
@@M3MB3Rrr have you the mpeg encoder drivers?
during the mid to late 90's and into the early 2000's, I used both DVCAM and DVCPRO (with cameras and VTR's). I loved both formats and I actually had the Matrox RT 2500 capture card lol !!! I loved it !! it was a no rendering, real time capture device that saved so much time !!!!! wow, those were the days man. if you did not live through the mid 90's to early 2000's in the video business, you haven't lived !!!!!! those of us who did, got the excitement of FIRST TIME switch over to giving clients DVD's as the final edited version rather than VHS. so many innovations in such a short period of time. WOW. - from linear editing to the jump to non linear computer editing was HUGE. I'm so thankful I was in the video business and got to experience the ride !
I had one of these when I was at Film School in the mid-90s, this was one of the first cheap cards that you could truly do non-linear editing on. My university didn't even have non-linear editing at the time, they had U-Matic and Betacam!! So when I got this and showed it to all my film school friends they all ordered one :) I was running mine on a Pentium 133. I remember one friend had a motherboard that refused to run it though, I spent ages trying to get it to work for him to no avail :(
you never forget your first one
My Tandon will not post. Just a countinous beep.
Please, could you upload the jumper settings and meanings page from the book!?
how to fix it?
Thank you! Excellent video!
wow i have st-225 one
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I have one of these. Unfortunately I have a fault in the logic board and can’t get it up to full speed. Project for later
i have a unit in south africa
Great vid bud!!
I really enjoyed this documentary and found it very accurate. Thanks! I agree, the DSR-PD150 is probably the best camera ever made and completely changed the broadcast industry.
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Hey, i'm looking exactly for the same computer case, what the name of yours? with vertical holes for isa riser
Thanks for this video! The ST225 was my very first contact with a hard disk on a PC-XT 8Mhz at work. I can still remember how impressed I was with its speed :)
All that work to solder cheap battery pack and still splicing old plug on to old wire. At that point why not just solder the original wire with plug to new battery pack?
I have exactly the same keyboard and it also needed restoration. The cabe got worn in the same way, and since I did not find a proper replacement I used ethernet cable and a new plug to fix it. I found those popup spring stands to be quite a challange to fit properly back in a case. And mine did not include worms :) Besides, it is good itea to use a brush (or burshed tip) while vacuming all the dirt inside.
I really wonder why you didn't address the corrosion caused by the leaked battery. Leaving all that gunk on the motherboard can still cause problems in the future.
True, battery acid will continue to eat away copper traces and one day that PC will not start.
I had one of these players back in 2002, but I sold it soon after when I discovered it had major design flaws. MP3 playback was REALLY BAD, because any music that had more mid to high frequency content, suffered from strange garbled artifacts. If the music was of genres that featured mainly bass frequencies, the design flaw never revealed itself. Also VideoCD playback was very unreliable and poor, e.g. you had to give it commercially produced discs otherwise it would be very choppy and out of sync. The only feature that worked without issues was plain ordinary CD music. I want to make clear that my player was not faulty, it was just badly affected by design issues.
Can anyone help me out please? I'm considering buying a SONY DSR-570WS CAMCORDER and was wondering if I could go from the camcorder to my laptop directly, bypassing the VCR. I want to make a documentary film and am wondering if this old school teck would serve me well? what are the limitations, etc? Thanks for your time and reply
You can connect the camcorder directly to your laptop via Firewire. I used this camera many times back in the days with good results, the biggest limitation today is that it is an SD camcorder.
Interesting video, great work. Between this and your DVACM video, it's really surprising that you don't have more of a following.
Thanks, It's very hard to get views and subscribers.
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Just discovered your channel though this video. I'm sad you don't have more subscribers considering how great the content is.
Thanks, it´s very difficult to get views and subscribers
@@bitsandframes7719 Must be why I've been battling with the idea of doing the same, and keep shutting it down.
Were you able to fix blowed tuner? I was thinking about same device, but then switched to network tuners like VBox TV/TiVo/hdhomerun.
I still have my old Sony PD 150.
best camera ever made
mine died after 4 years, I didn't worked it hard or anything, used indoors 99% of the time and never dropped it...it just stopped reading for no reason at all. the rechargeable batteries that were on the box lasted several more years being used in TV remotes and stuff.
I love these old drives. I have a lot of them in my vintage computer collection. The reason your drive is working without needing to put a drive type in the BIOS is due to using an 8-bit controller. 8-bit controllers have their own BIOS as they are meant for XT class PCs which do not include a drive table in their BIOS. 8-bit controllers are also very slow. Going to a 16 bit controller and running a 1 to 1 interleave with optimized sector and head skews, you can into the 400 KB/s access times. While not fast at all by today's standards, that's very good for MFM on a 286 / 386 class PC.
I have same screw driver