pilotdave 0 #1 December 6, 2002 This video has been on skydivingmovies.com for months and I finally bit the bullet and spent a couple hours downloading it, now that I have a brand new 60 gig hard drive. It's a film on the making of the movie Gypsy Moths that came from the DVD. If you're interested in 1960s skydiving, check it out. A few highlights... a little packing demo of a round canopy (never seen it done before) wingsuit flying (yep, they've been doing that for a looong time) slow motion openings and my favorite, right at the end, 3 guys lined up in freefall, each with his bridle connected to the next guy's ripcord. first guy pulls, as his canopy comes out the next guy gets pulled, and so on. Who wants to try a modern day version of that? Problem is the file is over 100 megs. So guess what? I re-encoded it. It's down to 28 megs. Still big but not too bad for a 15 minute video. Only problem is the audio doesnt seem to line up perfectly with the video anymore. Oh well, not noticeable unless someone's talking anyway. The file will be TheSkydivers.wmv in the /misc/ directory. It's still uploading at the moment but chances are it'll be done long before you read this. If you want to brave the big version, it's about 108 megs and is the avi version of the same file. The quality isnt THAT much better than the wmv except for the audio thing. Definitely worth the download. Oh, by the way, thanks for the video Craig! Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bivar 0 #2 December 6, 2002 I love my 100 mb/sec Internet connection ---------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
