Cajones

Yes, you are Famosa. And wonderful work you do in the name of the Brotherhood! Good lesson you learned on that skydive. A lesson you learned just in time to be included in the 2003 video. I remember swooping down, hanging out next to the camera flyer for a little while. The TM was chipping a bit, but I thought he was telling me to dock. Helped get rid of my hangover, though. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

There is a "Family Version" that'd be okay to show in class. It's only on VHS, though... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Great suggestion. I will make it a point to do so. We will also be looking for digital photos for the new freefall.com gallery. The plan is to have the ability to order prints from the gallery during the Convention and throughout the year. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I was looking at a pretty nice '77 Skylark. Not much rust. 350/4-barrel. Only one spring poking through the upholstery. Radio even works through the dashboard speaker. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

It won't take long for all the phantom pissers to remark your territory. BTW- I just realized I'm in the tandem video under the student training section of the NEW freefall.com website... I'm famous! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Bad News: It has some "flaws" that'll have to be fixed before production. More Bad News: Only one easter egg, and I had to use some software to find it. The menuing doesn't work like it was supposed to. Really Bad News: The wet t-shirt footage was apparently too poor quality and sparse to include. Next time perhaps we can get some better footage from some of the other cameras wandering around... Good News: Progress. It's my understanding the fixes are already underway. More Good News: The winner of the wet t-shirt contest gave me a very nice shot of her boobies (without her face, so you'll have to guess which ones) that has been included. There are also some dz.com boobies mixed in there... Really Good News: I'm in it. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

RSG, There's lots of opinions on the forums about CamEye. Do a search, and you'll find more than a few threads on it. If your local DZ does not carry/cannot get the CamEye, try https://www.square1.com/Catalog/. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

And if you switch to optical storage (as CNN does), it's actually less $/GB, with faster, random access. The advantage for us, as videographers, is it could cut the digitization time down substantially if the cameras were working in the same way. Another speedy change I always expected is fast tape transports and edit decks. Sort of like the high-speed dubbing casette player/recorder boomboxes. The data is digital; I can't see why we can't move the tape past the heads faster and transfer the data to a hard-drive, reducing digitization times. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

If this was a sudden change, and you're certain you made no changes to your settings, your settings file may have been corrupted. It's not as common as it once was, but it was a industry practice Adobe products to backup your settings file, and restore it when these sorts of things happened. When I was testing for my Photoshop ACE, this was actually part of the test. I've also seen it, commonly, when the correct type of pixels are not set, and audio settings are incorrect in either your camera, or Premiere. If it was fixed when you changed your scratch drive, I'd sooner suspect the settings file, as it's rebuilt any time you make changes. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Slinks - Main and Reserve. Supposed to soften openings just a tad, and I find it's a little easier to get the slider down. On the reserve - slightly softer openings, and no "lumps" in my container from hard links. Supposed to be stronger and less apt to fail than hard links, but I've never seen any real engineering data on this. I trust my rigger with my life, and he recommended them. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Looks to me like you should have very few troubles. First, I'd recommend building some "sight discipline" - there's another thread on this with excellent advice, so look around. Second, I'd insist you develop some additional emergency procedures. For every situation you and the other camera flyers you know might conceive - and practice them thoroughly and frequently. The more you rehearse on the ground, the less you have to improvise in the air. Third, I'd say keep doing the dives you are doing, already. By now, your body flight should be pretty instinctive. Flying without thinking about the mechanics of it are where I'd like to see every jumper before they consider putting a camera on their head. By continuing doing the skydives you are already doing, put together with your sight discipline, you'll find that whatever you look at, you'll be shooting. In a few skydives, the feedback of watching your video will translate to an internal framing picture, that tells you what's in the frame as you're skydiving. Additionally, try to pay attention to from-where and how much light you are getting. We all give the generalized advice of "put the sun at your back" as sort of a camera axiom. Shooting inside video doesn't always have this luxury, and paying specific attention to this factor will make the feedback from watching your video a bit more insightful. There's much more, I'm certain, so I'm sure some other flyers will have posts to follow my own. Take all of it (including mine) with you to the DZ, and filter it through a camera flyer you trust. Best of luck. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I'm going to agree with you on this note. I can see the wheels of progress turning in some of the Sony engineering minds. MicroMV looks like a group of engineers looking to bring random access media to the HandyCam line, using onboard MPEG encoding, cutoff at the pass by a bunch of MBA's putting the naysay to the random access media, and forcing the new standard media for issues of revenue. I still have hopes smaller manufacturers can influence the playing field. With Samsung unveiling their MPEG-2 to internal hard-drive camera, the Sony MBA's might have to rethink just a little... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I don't think microMV will go the way of SonyMD, but it's still far from the industry standard for skydiving. Yes, it's not compatible with miniDV firewire for exchanges of footage, but the vast majority of consumers do not exchange footage with other cameras. Most, in fact don't edit their footage or even have any idea what the "Firewire" port on their camera is used for. For the microMV, it's about commercialization. Salespeople are trained to push microMV with keyphrases about how it's "the same format as DVD's" (speaking of MPEG-2), and tout the higher pixel count of the advanced CCD's found on the microMV cameras. The PC120 we bought in December was on "Clearance" - the salesperson told me it was an "outdated model" and that's why we got a very good price on it. We had a conversation about the "current" cameras, and he assured me the microMV 2+ megapixel cameras they were showcasing was the most popular Sony Handycam they'd ever sold. It was $400 more than the PC120, but everyone passed up the PC120, as the salesmen explained how Sony was "phasing out" miniDV, and microMV was the future. MicroMV cameras are smaller and lighter than miniDV. They will be compatible with more editing software, in time. The quality of the newest cameras is quite respectable. They are compatible with each other. I don't think they're going away any time soon. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Then they will come to our planet and demand that we destroy all weapons of mass destruction. They will decide, because we have used these weapons to kill our own people (humankind), we are not responsible enough to have them. Further, we may, in the future, become a threat to them, and therefore our governments will be forced into puppets of our their own government. This will be done under the threat of invasion by their obviously stronger military, and sanctioned by whatever inter-planetary organizations designed to protect the peace and well-being of all planets. Of course, even if this body does not give their stamp of approval, the Thracknazoids will still invade, on the grounds that we have the technology to build spacecraft capable of reaching their planet, as well as the technology to build chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. None of which we are responsible enough to have, as we have demonstrated numerous times by taking the lives of other human beings. The real question is: How will we react? Will we comply and disarm (and allow Thracknaziodian Inspectors to verify as much)? Will we protect our sovereignty from the invading forces? Will we ask for an open debate on 60 minutes? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I'm not quite calm, yet, but I'll post a short reply... I'm a douchenozzle! I can't believe I didn't keep a backup of a file that I didn't think about being so very, very critical. All the toolboxes at Compaq had to do was replace my CD-ROM - there was nothing wrong with my hard-drive. Why they did a Compaq factory system restore is simply assinine. Here's the real kick in the jimmy!... It's not even fixed! I took it back to Best Buy this afternoon, because the freaking thing was locked up tighter than a nuns braziere! I think the poor kid behind the counter though I might pop any second - he stayed well out of arms reach when I started talking. I know it wasn't his fault... I only wanted to squeeze his head a little bit. Well... thanks for letting me vent a bit. Not to worry, as work continues on the video. It's a good thing I have footage of the best Holiday Boogie, ever, to look at and remind me of great times with great people. As an additional note... I have gotten a CD with a few songs that will be appearing on the video. They came from channels brought to us by a skydiver. Not the traditional channels we pursue, but one that has been very pleasantly rewarding. I love this family! edit: 'cause it's hard to spell when you can't even talk The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Make sure you have the camera on "VCR" (no camera), and the plugs are seated well. Check your Device Manager, also, and make sure there's an OHCI firewire in there, somewhere. I read about an onboard firewire Sony that came with the Firewire disabled in the BIOS (not "normal"). Are you using a PC-card, or built-in firewire? What model laptop/OS are you using? What software are you depending on to detect the device? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

There is some tweaking before production (mostly cosmetic - to give it the Big Air look), but it'll be made available soon. AirLoco (Brian) is already working on some new ideas. He's the ultimate canopy "mad scientist." He's getting pretty focused on his canopy flight seminars and training camps. Selling canopies doesn't pay the bills (especially when you knock the price down where everyone can afford one), so he doesn't have the time he'd like to spend in the secret labratory. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Congratulations! For those of you that don't know already... Sunshine already has her first save, even. I hope she got a big bottle of tequila (100% Blue Agave, people - none of the cheap crap) for the save. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Okay Phree... Time to let the cat out of the bag. It's called the "Sensei" - and no it isn't named after me. Great job on the video. I can see a little "tweaking" that I like over the prerelease. Soon, you'll be knocking on the door at Lucasarts with Deuce. Just remember to send some work my way. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

It sounds like a homegrown trojan. If no one knows what the hell it is, why would you let it in? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Congratulations! First thing you need to buy: Tapes. Don't buy the crappy ones. Sony Premiums are good. Sony Excellence is even better. Next: A wide angle lens. If you are gonna' freefly with it - get a low-profile .3 (like Max's Diamond). And: A good helmet. Try some of those around the DZ, and let the locals know of your intention to fly video. Listen to their advice. Lastly: New, well practiced, emergency procedures. Think about all the possibilities you can come up with, and then ask others about other possibilities. Know what you'll do for all of them. And practice them! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

If I ever go to prison (again?) - I hope you are all there with me. I think it'd be mucho fun. I don't make goofy faces in every picture. I took this one, and I'm not looking too goofy. Sies - I've got a box of goldfish with your name on it. Chuck - I'm looking forward to my next good drunk, so we can call you. edit - 'cause I fegetted to attach picture. Trevor - Good to see you on the forums. Look for my poll about DVD vs. VHS (it's a few pages further back), vote, and voice your opinion. Deuce - Thanks for the compliment. I just hope my frankenstein edit machine hold up 'til I get this thing put together. Sangiro - Get them to put an RV hookup in the parking lot. We're coming by on our travels. Make sure they have a sewage connection, so we don't have to dump it on the ground. Lew - I love the shit out of you. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Like in prison? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Associate Producers. We work jointly on some projects. We are working toward an Imax project, right now, that we have big hopes for. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

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