Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
2009-04-24
FlipHD
This is a movie from a Flip HD ($200.00 at Costco and it comes with a flexible mini tripod).
It's an amazing gadget!
And you can just plug it right into a PS3 and playback your high-def captures. In fact, most PCs can't really play back the FlipHD video very well, so playing back on a PS3 is a good idea.
Likewise, it was trivial to upload the video to YouTube, although the quality is reduced considerably on the way up.
What an amazing device. The only downside is that it's hard to hold really still.
Other than that ... amazing.
[By popular demand: the original mp4 video (10 megabytes).]
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2008-12-20
Snow Particles
We're in the middle of a "blizzard". The wind gusts are pretty strong (40 mphs?) but it's not insane. Plus we still have power!
I shot this video an hour ago and uploaded it to YouTube. The original was in DV format and 100 megabytes! YouTube did a good job compressing it.
You'll notice the wind is having a hard time choosing what direction to blow. Kind of like a lot of politicians.
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I shot this video an hour ago and uploaded it to YouTube. The original was in DV format and 100 megabytes! YouTube did a good job compressing it.
You'll notice the wind is having a hard time choosing what direction to blow. Kind of like a lot of politicians.
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2008-09-28
Fantasmic!
[Updated to point to higher-res YouTube version.]
I made a Disney fan video back in 1992/1993. It's a home video of Disneyland's Fantasmic.
I shot it over a period of a year and a half. Editing it was hard - it was put together using home consumer VHS decks where you had to do a lot of tricky timing to get any kind of an edit at all. Basically you would roll one deck, let it get to 1 1/2 seconds before you wanted to edit, roll the second deck, and then hit the edit button and hope it was sync'd. The original source material was S-VHS but I edited it down to VHS. I finally have a gadget - the Plexor ConvertX - which does a good job of encoding video. Unfortunately I don't have a great VHS deck anymore (time marches on), so the encoding to DivX isn't perfect. There is a little bit of video sync weirdness. I'll try to fix that some day, maybe by borrowing a deck from someone.
I was lucky to get some video above the crowd from the Pirates Gallery Balcony, which I used as the master. Then I went back and got some great video from right up front. Then I went back a few more times and ran around filling in shots I was missing. I think it's the equivalent of a six camera shoot.
Of course, it was all hand-held, so it's not totally stable, but it's a lot more stable than most of the Disney fan video I've seen!
Watch it on YouTube:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (Finale - very cool)
I had a lot of fun editing it - although now 14 years later I wonder how I ever had the time. And of course it would be so much easier now to edit digitally on a PC.
One idea I had, after cutting all that together, was to work with Disney on a "Encyclopedia Fantasmica", which would be an interactive DVD that would let you click on any item in the show and then it would tell you about it - either where it came from, or the tech that was used to create it in the show, or whatever. I work in the games business but and I've even worked with Disney on some things but I never got around to 'pitching' my idea.
It would be cool if someone made it.
© 2006 Stephen Clarke-Willson - All Rights Reserved.
I made a Disney fan video back in 1992/1993. It's a home video of Disneyland's Fantasmic.
I shot it over a period of a year and a half. Editing it was hard - it was put together using home consumer VHS decks where you had to do a lot of tricky timing to get any kind of an edit at all. Basically you would roll one deck, let it get to 1 1/2 seconds before you wanted to edit, roll the second deck, and then hit the edit button and hope it was sync'd. The original source material was S-VHS but I edited it down to VHS. I finally have a gadget - the Plexor ConvertX - which does a good job of encoding video. Unfortunately I don't have a great VHS deck anymore (time marches on), so the encoding to DivX isn't perfect. There is a little bit of video sync weirdness. I'll try to fix that some day, maybe by borrowing a deck from someone.
I was lucky to get some video above the crowd from the Pirates Gallery Balcony, which I used as the master. Then I went back and got some great video from right up front. Then I went back a few more times and ran around filling in shots I was missing. I think it's the equivalent of a six camera shoot.
Of course, it was all hand-held, so it's not totally stable, but it's a lot more stable than most of the Disney fan video I've seen!
Watch it on YouTube:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (Finale - very cool)
I had a lot of fun editing it - although now 14 years later I wonder how I ever had the time. And of course it would be so much easier now to edit digitally on a PC.
One idea I had, after cutting all that together, was to work with Disney on a "Encyclopedia Fantasmica", which would be an interactive DVD that would let you click on any item in the show and then it would tell you about it - either where it came from, or the tech that was used to create it in the show, or whatever. I work in the games business but and I've even worked with Disney on some things but I never got around to 'pitching' my idea.
It would be cool if someone made it.
© 2006 Stephen Clarke-Willson - All Rights Reserved.
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