MX-1 can make any footage look like PXL

[Tracy Hunker <thunker@freenet.columbus.oh.us>]

	My Videonics MX-1 seems to be able to do a passable imitation of

Pixelcam footage. From the INPUT F/X you can change video footage to black

and white, provide a slight pixelation, and slow the frame rate down to an

old fashion film camera look. Then by using a ZOOM wipe you can shrink any

video footage overtop of a black background to the size of pixelcam

footage. By doing all of this at once the MX-1 may not provide too many

minutes of error-free footage, but you can run the footage through the

mixer twice. It time base corrects the footage as well.

	The first level pixelization in the MX-1's INPUT F/X's is a bit

coarser than the PXL-2000. So, running it through twice to do the entire

effect might smooth the picture.



	Of course, the MX-1 is useful for many other things than that,

like chroma key and dissolve between two of four video inputs. However,

the INPUT F/X's can deteriorate a normal video source if you watch it on a

big screen TV. You can do "on-the-fly" change of the frame rate,

pixelization level, even mirroring the image but some of these effects

turns the video into probably about 200 lines of resolution that becomes

noticeable on any large TV. 

	So, it reminds me of the PXL-cam and the quest for low-resolution...

even if the MX-1 is a rather pricey video mixer.



	Just thought somebody might like to know how to create the PXL-cam

look on a pro-sumer video mixer.





TH