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  1. BellyFlailer
    Remember growing up in New England, when the Celtics were great, Socks and Pats sucked, but they'd tease us once in a while and come close. I say Go Sox too, but remember Boston Fans, there will be dark years again. We're spoiled now. Graffanino is going to have to buy a duplex with Billy Buck in some other part of the country. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    The gas will come out of your mouth. Sorry but it's true. I used to work in a hospital laboratory. We had a sputum sample from a patient that grew fecal bacteria. We thought the nurse or someone in the lab mixed up the specimens. So we got another and it grew fecal bacteria also. Turns out the patient was obstipated, completely blocked. So fecal material ended up creeping back up into her stomach and up out of her throat. Imagine that!! http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    You're exactly right, no matter how many other movies he does he's still the guy from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Cuz that's who he is in real life. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    Anyone know how to export frames from an .avi to a .jpg. I'd like to be able to get some stills from my video, I know they won't be as good of quality as a real camera, but I'd like to play around with it a little bit. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    I'm using a Liquid .45 from cookiecomposites. Just google cookiecomposites, you'll find em. The lens is really small and light. Doesn't protrude any wider than front of camera, ok maybe a little bit. I think it cost me about 150. Get the filter with it, it costs a little more of course. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    I've been jumping a PC1000 for the past month. Picture quality is great. Alot of people bitch about the controls, and they're right, but once you got the settings the way you want you won't really mess with them. I got a cage for it from www.sprinc.org/order.htm that alleviated any of the issues other. The issues everyone's complained about is enclosed battery, touch screen on opposite side of lanc, battery life. You may not want to side mount it for these reasons. The cage I got lets me pop it right out of the cage and put it in it's charge station, then I can upload from the charge station to my laptop or vcr. It's expensive though, in the high 900's at B&H Photovideo. I've seen em advertised for 1200 elsewhere for the same camera. It's a 3 chip, you should see the colors. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    Yes that is the answer, thanks for all the fish. I'd like a little better quality than that if possible, but maybe that's good enough. That video was 3 minutes long and 15 meg. So I could probably make a 1 minute 5 meg of that quality (great math skills ay?). http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    By the way, thanks everyone for all your input. I'll try some free trials of these software packages if available. I got one from downloads.com called Tsunami, I'm surprised they havn't renamed it. I'll try that out this week and post results for y'all. It's a free 2 week trial if any of you are interested. So how small are any of you able to get a 1 minute video, and what quality price are you paying? I want to post them online and bandwidth will be an issue. 10 meg is ok for people with cable internet like me, but DSL will be quite a bit slower. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    I'd be willing to spend a few hundred bucks, if the encoder let me do batch jobs and kept the quality good. My goal is to compress a 1 minute freefall to < 10 meg. If I reduce the quality a little and set Windows Media Encoder to 2 pass encoding (or whatever it's called), it ends up around 10 meg. It'd be great if I could make it do batch jobs. It takes about 10 minutes to compress a 1 minute video this way. Don't you all hate to reduce the quality? I sure do, the video looks so good when uncompressed. I didn't fork over a grand for a Sony PC1000 just to reduce the video quality and make it look like crap. This is off the subject but 1/2 of all skydivers can't track at all. I never realized this till I started shooting video. At first I was hanging out and filming people tracking, then I realized that there was always a few that didn't get very far away at all. I'm opening the second they turn to track from now on. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    Anyone know any good video compression tools. I'd like to compress my video and post online, or just burn cd's for my friends. Windows Media encoder 9 works well, but to compress one jump into one file, I have to compress them one at a time. I can select multiple videos and compress them into one file, but I really need a compression tool that lets me give it a job of multiple files, with multiple output files. http://www.SkydiveVids.com
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    I got my dad to do a tandem skydive, he was so scared that he couldn't breathe in freefall. I think his lungs were full of air and he kept trying to inhale. The video is hilarious. I guess that's how the myth started, people too scared to breathe, he still claims it's the way the wind was hitting his mouth. EM http://www.SkydiveVids.com