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    You can't take advantage of the willing. It is not taking advantage of when people knowingly bid and pay 2-3 times more than retail. You can't even use the BIN excuse because in live auction people bid against each other with these prices.

    I know how the temptation can make people just put all kinds of money out there on something because it's hard to find. I'm not someone that will use that to profit off of something. That's just how I was raised. I'm not saying there is anything inherently wrong with it, I just can't do it.

     

    I put a launch Wii on ebay and it sold for three times what I paid for it. I felt like crap after I saw that. I just wasn't thinking it through. I refunded the shipping charge, and since the person actually lived a few hours away, I drove it to them on Christmas Eve. The father had been driving around Georgia/SC for four days straight trying to find one for their disabled kid. They wouldn't accept me giving them the amount over they paid for it. Since then, I don't sell on ebay unless I use a BIN and just cover the cost and shipping. lol. I know it sounds weird, but I can't live with myself by profiting off of someone.

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    I would suggest considering your target playback device. If you are only targeting widescreen 1080p then leave the footage as-is. It's considered bad practice to add pillar boxes or other "filling" imagery unless you are editorializing (eg youtube) to mix it with content that is 16:9 ASR. Otherwise it just makes the data larger and lowers the compress-ability. The reason is, if you are simply playing the footage back, there are 4:3 devices out there (Eg iPad's) that adding this padding will make less of the playback screen available.

     

    If you are actually capturing at 16:9 from the NT Mini, then you would want to reduce the zoom to 4x and crop the entire windowbox.

    I appreciate that perspective. Thank you. I'm not adding anything to it as seen in that picture. Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by that in respect to that picture.

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    Soooo, I'm a video editor for a living, and let me just suggest that the tool you want to use is Premiere Pro. Final Cut Pro X can do it, but the whole program is a PITA to use. iMovie, I don't know. Haven't ever actually looked at the program. Anyhow, in Premiere, you'll have to manually set up the first iteration of this effect, you'll be able to copy and paste look in the future. The basic set up on your timeline is this:

     

    Video Track 2: Duplicated Clip --> black edges cropped out (extra credit, drop shadow)

    Video Track 1: Original Clip --> blurred, reduced brightness

     

    Future iterations can be effected quickly by creating and saving "favorites" to your effects palate or by copying and "pasting attributes" to subsequent clips.

     

    Hope this helps.

    Thank you. That's what I've been thinking about, but wasn't sure if that was going to work since the black edges were from the source and not just added to a 16:9 frame from a 4:3 source.

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    I couldn't find another spot to put this in, so I hope this is proper.

     

    Using the Analogue NT Mini, capturing the 1080p footage, results in the obvious black bars from the 4:3 aspect of the actual game footage.

     

    2017_02_18_18_03_19.png

     

    Any advice on editing that to show the game footage as the background, cropped to fill and blurred; so the black bars will be gone? I only have iMovie, but willing to get Final Cut Pro if necessary. Any other editing software suggested is nice too.

     

    Thanks.

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    Can someone recommend what I would be good to use so I can play some games on my Sony CRT? It has Composite/Component and RF. I'd rather not use RF, but if that's the only option... also, what would I change as far as the video options to make sure the picture is fitting the screen properly?

     

    Love my NT Mini, and I am very appreciative of the work Kevtris is putting out for it.

    Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

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    Can someone recommend what I would be good to use so I can play some games on my Sony CRT? It has Composite/Component and RF. I'd rather not use RF, but if that's the only option... also, what would I change as far as the video options to make sure the picture is fitting the screen properly?

     

    Love my NT Mini, and I am very appreciative of the work Kevtris is putting out for it.

  11. Posted · Edited by F34R

    I got an NES Classic today. I don't mean to derail the thread though, BUT I can at least say the $500 is gonna be worth it for a lot of people wanting to get the NT Mini and having the money for it xD

    The NES Classic has input lag that's not bad, but I can't beat Mr. Dream in it at least without having to retry lots of times, when I can do it from the first try on NES and on the AVS.

    It also, strangely, has more sound lag than image lag. So the sound plays delayed by a bit.

    The 4:3 also gives me bad uneven pixels. And the CRT option is blurry, though you can sorta get used to it.

    This is 4:3 on the NES Classic... notice the horizontal uneven pixels?

    https://s5.postimg.org/8zfzgsc1z/4_3_NES_Classic.jpg

     

    Here's the difference between the NT Mini and Classic, playing punchout... the NT Mini is on the left, Classic on the right. NT Mini is using the 4x, but I've since changed it to the 4.5x, and the windows size is the same as the classic. I need to do a newer video because the punch speed (button presses) weren't timed the same.

     

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