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lcharlot
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Initially Posted - 07/04/2006 :  12:03:02  Show Profile
I have a new digital camera, a Fujifilm S-9000, and last weekend took it out on the boat for it's first "test-drive". Friday evening we had perfect conditions, wind SW at about 10 mph, and I got in a good 3.5 hour cruise, racking up 15.5 miles on the GPS trip odometer. In fact it was the only good wind out on the lake all weekend. Anyway, I shot 8 minutes of video footage and a couple of hundred stills. I have produced a 3.5 minute long video, the best clips of the 8 minutes of raw footage, and uploaded it to one of these new video sharing sites, "Vimeo". If anyone would like to see it, here's the URL:
http://www.vimeo.com/clip:86127

NOTE: In order to keep the file size as small as possible (Vimeo has a 30 meg/week upload limit), I deleted the audio track, so this video clip is silent. There was a lot of wind noise in the raw footage anyway so deleteing the audio was no great loss. I also told Windows Movie Maker to use as much compression as possible, while still keeping the video size at 640 x 480, so the motion is a little jerky in a few places, and the sky shows some banding artifacts, like a JPEG still shot at the "low quality" setting. If you have not yet experienced Vimeo, or other similar video sharing sites, what you will see on screen is a reduced size streaming video in Shockwave Flash format. Personally, I don't like Flash, since it doesn't work with my favorite browser (Firefox), but most of you are probably using the Microsoft IE browser, and should be able to view it if you have installed the Flash plugin. If you like the clip enough to want to see the better-quality original, click on the download button. This will give you the WMV format clip I uploaded, which is 13.6 megs in size. The original high quality WMV is 65 megs, so you understand why I had to compress it down for posting to the Web. You probably will only want to download the WMV if you have broadband internet, but I think the Flash stream will display on a 56K dial-up connection after it has buffered. Flash is very highly compressed, so don't be put off by the low quality, the WMV is much better.
Larry Charlot
Catalina 25WK/TR Mk. IV #5857 "Quiet Time"
Folsom Lake, CA

"You might get there faster in a powerboat, but in a sailboat, you're already there"
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atgep
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Response Posted - 07/04/2006 :  12:44:56  Show Profile
Larry,
I found an easy way to assemble, compress, and post video. I use Windows movie maker. After you have the shot put together, "save as" option lets you compress to your liking. I used the video for broadband setting which is 320 kbs a sec. 1min =2.5 megs or so. Looks ok.

To post it go to video.google.com There you can post videos and I am not aware of bandwidth restrictions. You can even put the videos on your website. Not sure how that works. That is how I put the 2 videos on the forum. You may be way ahead of me on this.

Tom.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 07/04/2006 :  17:59:47  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Nice, thanks
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 07/04/2006 :  18:16:56  Show Profile
Nice Larry, I especially like the sunset part.
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 07/05/2006 :  09:00:44  Show Profile
And here I am sitting in the office! Won't get back to the lake this weekend. So won't be out sailing for over a week. The video is great, but just leaves me wanting to get back on the water.
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