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Definitely talk to Bill at Mirage. He's a great guy. He may also be able to turn you on to some stock rigs. Save some $$$ for other gear, and get it a little quicker. I love my Mirages. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I actually like this picture much more than the first. Nice Shot. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

"Two canopys out is a completely avoidable situation." Yea - take up BASE jumping. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I definitely have to agree with Phree, here. I've jumped with huge wings to fly with the 90mph tandems, but I almost exclusively fly video with my freefly suit. I've found that my super-baggy multi-layered suit (I'm 6'3", 230lb) gives me great range, as wings would, and also gives me more flexibility. With my suit, I can get much finer speed control by body position no matter my orientation. With big wings, I'd get assymetric inflations, and just much more work flying in anything but belly-down/head-up. Flying with my slow freefly suit also translates well to all of my other flying. My tandem exits are more intuitive, student, and fun jumps all translate directly, instead of being different forms of flying. Where wings are highly appropriate, for me, is flying in the burble of RW. Wings can give you that bottom end and smooth out rough air. For RW, it's all belly down, with little/no need to fly in multiple positions. This' just what works best for me. What you adapt to and find most comfortable may be a bit different. If I could go back and do about 500 wing-suit jumps with my freefly suit, I'd be a better flyer today. You may look back in a few years and say just the opposite. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Make sure you've got everything shut down that doesn't need to be running. Programs in the background can rob processor cycles and cause delays when you tell your computer to start thinking about what you're doing in the foreground. Programs like cacheman can help tweak some of those memory and processor priorities, also. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Sounds like a video card conflict. Often this can be fixed by turning the "Hardware Acceleration" part or all the way down while using Premiere. The sound issue may be a settings problem, or a render problem. It may take some experimentation to find the frequency you want to import with. The real frustration comes when Premiere will not render wav files properly to match your desired output. Using a third-party plug-in adds time and money to projects. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

You won't see a significant gain in your field-of-view going from a .45 to a .43/.42. If the door shot is what you're trying to improve, I'd say work on your door position instead of going to a wider lens. You can get a good shot with a .6 if you use good sight discipline and find a good position. Interaction with the TM is a good thing, too. Get the TM to point you out to the passenger, so they can smile in the door instead of a shot of the top of their head looking down. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I've been struck by risers hard enough to damage my pro-track mounted on the side of my helmet. I've gotten some scrapes and bruises, but never bad enough to need stitches. Riser strikes are the core reason why helmets are so strongly (no pun intended) recommended. Bill Morrisey uses the example of TM's losing an ear! Ouch! Holding the students head on opening sounds like another invitation for problems. Keep your hands free to do whatever chaos gives you. Maybe the DZO should go along to hold your head for the "possibility" of a hard opening. If you do support the passengers head, and smack them with your face and bleed all over them, it'd be a different kind of ugly. Instead of spending time making rules for the TM's, spend some time teaching better packing so openings can be tamed and consistent. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Filters for video produce the same sort of effects as they do for film. If all else fails, put the filter on and see what the video looks like in various conditions. I primarily use an enhancing filter on my video camera. Skylight can be very good, and a circular polarizer (set to vertical neutral to prevent turning the sky super dark) can be seen on my still and video under certain conditions. A few things to consider: filters can rob light (reduce the light available for the imager/film) filters can also change your wide-angle field of view, if you put them between your camera and your wide-angle lens (most wide adapters don't have threads on the outside). The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

This is a curious change from Sony. The microMV firewire interface only seems compatible with other cameras with microMV. The possibly misinformed people at Best Buy say none of the Sony computers recognize the microMV devices on firewire, but can capture from the composite input of the desktop editing computers. Of course, they also insisted the image quality was "the same" as miniDV, and the new 2MP microMV Sony was even better. I can seem to find reference on the Sony website to specific compatibility to microMV of any of their computers, or the associated software. As far as MPEG editing, I do editing directly on MPEG files (only when the final destination is VCD/DVD) without any difficulty. It is faster to capture in MPEG (hardware compressed by my DVD1000) and produce to media, than to capture, edit, render in MPEG (very time consuming), and produce. As an additional note, my DVD1000 has input and output for firewire, S-Video, and composite. Asking with a six-pack of Newcastle is a very polite way to get your microMV footage captured. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Yes, it was an expensive experiment. The 950 uses the same floating iris as the 900 used. Same problems with flutter. Buy a TRV30/PC115 - you'll be happy with the image, and you can use the extra $$$ toward a digital still. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

"Guys, she has legs that go on forever!" You should see the rest of her... Perfection. Oh, and welcome to the Brotherhood, CieloMadre! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Why are we bringing God into this??? He has better things to do than performing miracles. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I think the tooth "polishing" formulas can be quite abrasive. I use a basic/non-whitening formula (red colgate). It's about as non-abrasive as any can be. I tried the pastes at the house, and couldn't detect any abrasive content. If it is abrasive, it must be much softer than the glass in my lenses. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Windows Media Player. Shift+Control+S puts it in slow-mo. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Are you opening Studio with your camcorder already on and connected? Is this all in the same session (i.e. download from the PC9, edit and send back to the PC9 without shutting down/exiting)? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I have a Cypress in my rigs. I bought my first Cypress 2 years ago. I have been jumping for 15 years. I have had two AAD misfires in my career. The first happened when I switched my AAD to "Off" under canopy at ~3,000ft. The second happened acting as a student during a rating course at ~1,800ft. Both resulted in two-canopy scenarios. I downplaned (intentionally) both times, and chopped the main and landed the reserves. I have no good reason, in spite of these scenarios, to NOT be AAD equipped sooner. I teach students - and take my teaching very seriously. I am a teacher by nature. Telling students they need to have an AAD made me feel hypocritical. I finally listened to my own advice and spent the $865 for a new Cypress (yes, that includes installation and a reserve repack at Blue Sky Adventures). I now consider it part of my rigs. I put my gear together - main, reserve, Cypress, hook knife - all part of my skydiving rig. I just wish they'd make a waterproof one! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Tracking is an accelerative process. Tracking during a skydive is usually initiated when we are already at TV. This gives us a lot of air to deflect, and allows much faster acceleration. With a BASE track/delta, the speeds are lower, and the resulting forward speed is much lower. There are factors of body position and composition that can have great effect, also. I've never seen a BASE jumper with booties, but I've heard that tracking pants have given some very strong BASE tracks. Birdman suits, of course, mote excellent BASE tracks, but not nearly the forward speeds of terminal skydive tracks. These forward speeds are the vectors in the crazy math that hurts much more than the vectors perpendicular that gravity gives us. As an additional factor I failed to mention, and this may be subconscious, I see BASE jumpers deploying head-high. Especially evident on short delays, just looking over footage from Bridge Day, I see jumpers with far more experience than I have, folding their legs, and pushing their heads up, to deploy. Just a few degrees of getting your head up where your neck can support it better, can reduce impact significantly. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Right in line with what I was going to say. The track of a skydiver has a greater forward speed than a BASE jumper. The impact of a head-down preemie at 150 vs. a head-up preemie at 150 (or even greater) is quite obvious. The energy transmitted down through the spine, instead of snatching or perpendicular is much less painful. This' especially important with regards to the neck. The human head is rather heavy (especially when you add in a camera helmet) for our necks. When our head is directly above our neck - no problem - we can hold it up for hours and hours. Try to hold your head up for a long timelaying flat, with your head unsupported. The whiplash effect is what knocks people out during a hard opening. This effect would be magnified during a hard track. I'm not going into the math here. Those of you who were in some of my camera seminars were bored with it during the power-point section. Suffice to say it hurts more when you are moving forward/head down. The answer I have taught for many years is the tracking "flare." Converting the forward speed of a hard track into a bit of lift. Birdmen can convert the speed of a dive into enough lift to gain altitude tracking out of the dive (not more than they lost in the dive, of course). The object is not just to decrease your vertical speed, though. The additional benefit is in body position. The track is done normally (flat, fast, and away), with knee brakes and pulling the head high, with a last look around, during the wave-off. This sets you upright just a little, and slows the forward speed very quickly. Pitching in this head-high position reduces the impact on your neck. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Definitely. I know of a few cases I've seen, but I have also had one of my own. I was jumping a Sabre 150 (cringe!) that belonged to a friend. I was shooting video two-turn-loads and shut down style. Edit and pack while the plane is shut down, do two more... Sabre smacked me so hard, I was seeing stars. Had to miss 6 weeks of jumping (including a very big boogie), and spend many $$$ at the Chiropractor. By far, the worst injury I've had in skydiving. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Yes, I took the bait. I made the mistake of believing that this was a serious forum for intelligent people. You know assumptions do... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

"I do a lot of low pulls" WTF? I hope you don't think BASE jumping is the same as doing "low pulls" nor that doing "low pulls" somehow prepares you for BASE jumping... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

That is a really old forum. dvDoctor fell out of favor because there was too much BS. People giving bad advise and not asking good questions. Try the videoguys website. It's not as bad about bad advise from posters. The guys that maintain it have seen/built a lot of succesful editing stations. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

You cannot use infinity or auto-focus with the .3 lens. I prefer the .3 diamond because it is very low profile and it's threaded (vs. the clips on other .3's). Gives a great view for free-fly, and can be used for some sweet perspective shots (used on belly/foot mount). The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

What a great gig! My respect and envy to you and the crew. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.