Very Cool! I so need to get a TZ.

Nice game

That's amazing how well PDI turned out in this video. I wouldn't know there was glass otherwise! I prefer the muffled mechanical sounds rather than recording with the glass off, sounds more real. I plan on making a Wizard of Oz LE video JUST like this with a direct audio feed from the AUX jack on the machine. I will attempt to get direct LCD video too. If not I'll run a Handycam over my left shoulder with optical zoom like PAPA does. Not an HD camera but it doesn't need to be since the video will be off to the side in a smaller view. I plan on doing both a vertical version with the LCD and a full-screen horizontal one without. I will maintain the full 1920 pixels of height in the vertical one. The option for "original" resolution will be available if you want to view it that way.

Here's a Frankenstein video I came across, the audio is perfect:

Nice, what s PDI? You have a unlevel game, and a special shot light out.

Fun video man, did a great job. When you had the stuck ball I think you panic'd there and right before you got greed,drain,LITZ. It felt like your were rushing the shots. Only suggestion is to slow the ball down, when you don't have a clock. Wait till your ready for the shot, not trying to make the shot on the ball on the run.

Great vid. Makes me want to set up my TZ again! Was agonising (but funny) watching all those rejections from the slot machine when you had when trying to shoot your last door panel (for Hitchhiker)

Which camera model did you use to record this video?

Wow.. thats an awesome camera and the quality of the vid you posted proves it. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah I didn't realize Ed got that far recently. If I had any machines I would definitely be interested in that board. I can see PAPA mixing a direct feed of the DMD in with their videos. Just connect the board to a VGA -> composite converter and capture with a composite capture device. That's what I plan on doing with WOZ if I can re-route the cable going from the PC to the LCD display. If I can do that I will also re-route the VGA output of my laptop to the LCD so I can still get an idea of what's going on (albeit with a second or two of lag). I'll be doing the video with an iPhone 4s. Nothing against professional level cameras, but you won't be able to tell the difference between the two in the end.

How exactly did you set up your tripod? Do you have a picture?

Cool video. Thanks for sharing! I like your TZ. Looks like an early sample.

pzy yes there is compression but by the time it gets to YouTube it really won't look any different. I have hard disk space to burn so I set the bit rate high enough to where compression really doesn't make enough of an impact to notice. You can get around the resolution reduction by upping your video dimensions to 1920x3414. That way YouTube will preserve the original resolution and provide an option for watching it without scaling it down.

WOZ is standard vga out, 1360x768.

Vid looks great PDI looks even better.
Only thing that would be nice is if you could get the flippers and the DMD screen shot on the same screen at the same time.

Nice work i will watch for future vids on youtube. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for verifying that for me Keith. Can you tell me if it uses a standard VGA female connector on the machine? I don't see why not since it's basically a PC.

Here's mine. It's not great. Picks up floor vibration and isn't stable enough.

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Careful with those bang backs. You will hurt your wrist, badly. I'm not kidding, it's not going to end well.

I'm not sure if this is an option or not, but I've made some videos of my EM games here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SirSteveFury?blend=1&ob=0

I played a large number of games setting the camera up at a multitude of different angles... some above, some very close up and low to the playfield etc. Then I used a software editing program (Power Director by Cyberlink) to edit the shots into one contiguous play.
The multiple angles help the viewer to understand what is happening on the playfield and adds interest.
I'd like to redo those videos someday. Now that I've done two of them I know I can do a much better video.

For example on your modern pin, if the ball is shot into an area and disappears from view, what is happening while it's hidden? Are there light indications or animations somewhere which can be highlighted? Another example is if the ball gets automatically shot up to the next level and sent down a ramp- those are some great opportunities for awesome close-up camera angles!

The only limitation is imagination and creativity! You'll get far more interesting videos with great imagination and creativity using less quality equipment versus less ingenuity with professional equipment. Combining expensive equipment with expansive imagination would produce some truly awe-inspiring videos!

cool stuff. Reminds me of the Tilt (Brooke Shields) movie.

I finally got the chance to do one myself on Fish Tales! The alignment is a little off but I couldn't tell on my tiny iPhone screen. I plan on doing a WOZ follow-up video in a few months, using direct video and audio feeds for the LCD.

nice vid.. I Think PAPA uses vimeo because they allow odd sizes (and vertical video), crops a little better