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thanx for sharing the story

Use Final Cut Pro Log/Transfer function.

that option is only available in temporal-based compressions (mpeg)

It's not that the suits are getting bigger/faster that are the potential problems for 200 jump wonders. The problem with the big suits is that there are people incentivized to sell big suits, and worse...peopel that tie big suits to ability. We see it every month here...some dude with 10 Phantom jumps shows up with an Xbird because someone told him/her they needed it to fly better. It's as stupid as someone with 100 jumps under a 1.0 wingloading suddenly jumping to a 2.0 wingloading because they were told they'd swoop better. Whatever happened to "learning to fly your body?" We've already seen a couple DZ's change up their policies on wingsuits in the past 12 months; I suspect we're going to see more. Most of the problems are due to poorly trained people in suits that are well beyond their capacity/skill level. I don't expect we'll ever see the BSR for 200 jumps lowered. 200 is a great gateway point for current, heads-up would-be wingsuiters, IMO.

mpeg Streamclip is easy. Sorenson Squeeze is easy. Seriously hard time? Seriously? It would appear you're not looking much, as there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of resources for outputting mp4 from an apple system. Even iMovie can output a crap 1280 x 720 mp4. What specifically is your workflow, and where is the bottleneck?

Video for those outside of Facebook Thanks again to all that came out to play.

The AltiTrack does a great job. I have an N3 that is always different than my Altitrack by at least 5-7 seconds, not sure why (they're in the same place). Both will show data without a 'puter. Both do connect to Paralog for greater detail.

[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8bt_Zf1aw4"]A little of what you missed. Super short time avail this week, so nothing special in the video until the very end.

If the gear checks were thorough...they might have caught skipped/missing elastic keepers on the legstraps? I've seen more than a couple instances on WS skydives where the elastics are bypassed and pressure from the suit allows the legstrap to get loose( resulting in a nut-buster). It takes courage to share, and I wish more people would share so that we can all learn. Legal issues aside, most folks don't have the balls to post their screwups, let alone take responsibilty for them. The internet makes it possible for people to beat you up but know that for every one person that chews on you for your actions, there are at least 5-10 silent sets of eyes that learn from (and appreciate) what you've shared.

It does. Or at least has with one whose video I've seen.

~holed top/bottom skin (old F111 canopy) ~Packing error/baglock ~Spin-up due to body position/wingsuit ~Brake fire (brake not properly set)

Ed did well in his Venom. I think he coulda gone further. Glad he deployed when he did; landing area is 1,093' higher than the DZ. I'm not sure Ed's is a shipping model? It's different than my prototype for sure.

Huntsman is going to run Having known Jon Huntsman since high school, sharing a stage with him many times, and working near Mitt Romney during the SLC Olympics... If either of them are to make it through the primary, Huntsman would be my pick. Hopefully he won't turn into the polarized freak that Romney kept well-hidden. Huntsman does come from an exceptionally privileged background, is Mormon, a solid businessman, speaks many languages. I'm a friend, but don't know I'll vote for him.

The event went very well. Peaked at 30 birds. Ed took the CFFH Team, Darren and Jose traded places in The Sparrows, and Joel and Jose traded coaching with The Kiwis. Hammo and myself coaching on the ground and air, working with each team and with individuals. Multiple filled Otter loads with wingsuiters-only; not an exit, in-flight, deployment, nor canopy pattern issue of any kind. People avoided the few clouds we had on Friday, and every one seems to have had a good time. A few FFC's got banged out in addition to the 17 Wingsuit loads flown. Significantly visible improvement in the lower-time groups, great stuff coming from Team CFFC as well. With representatives from Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Tahiti, Korea, the UK, Venezuela all as part of the event, communication was well-managed. Only one off-landing, and he was so lost, he somehow managed to find his Venom taking him to a place nearly 6 miles from exit point (4 miles from assigned landing area). Sorta sucks having a valley floor that is only 5 miles wide; you're over mtns on exit and over mountains again on deployment. Verticals, docking verticals, backflying, rotations, multipoint groups, Kudos to all the coaches that helped make this event a success. Lots of photos on the Skydive Elsinore Wingsuit School page. Between the MKE/SkyKnights event and the Elsinore event, there are 26 new birds in two weekends! At least one, and usually two full-time wingsuit organizers on the DZ every weekend, and one full time every day of the week. Seeing 5-8 wings on a Wednesday is not uncommon, and we get some pretty sweet distances over the lake and mountain range. See you in November for the Wingsuit Relative Work Competition!!

Congratulations, Shannon. You're always pulling inspirational.

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http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4132167#4132167

you don't need QT Pro to open/edit/read these files. It's FUD to suggest people NEED it. Extra benefit...yes. But the free version of QT offers the same quality as the 30.00 version, just fewer benefits.

The first statement just isn't true. AVI is a container (paper bag that contains labeled groceries) MOV is a is a container (paper bag that contains labeled groceries) Install quicktime (free) and every NLE on the planet will edit it natively (well...not the company that developed Quicktime, they want a conversion first). It's funny, because back in the days of Road Pizza, Apple intended to make Quicktime ubiquitous and capable of editing, playing, encoding everything under the sun. They did a good job (IMO) of having it open everything, regardless of whether it's on Windows or Mac. Get QT Pro and you can render to several other codecs. IMO, it's worth the 30.00 to own the Pro version.

I disagree. It's about the time, cost, and creative energy expended in getting from concept to finished content. This isn't a hobby for me. It's a way of life, and editing has been my career in either audio or video for 3 decades plus. I don't have time to fuck around with codec conversions when there is a deadline looming, and I approach tandem and skydiving vids with the same concept. Putting up short vids every other day on FB would be impossible with FCP, simply because of the slow conversions, renders, and edit steps that I can do in a 99.00 tool in minutes, straight off the camera. Then I store the project with selects (same as FCP does with log/transfer, except I'm never converting, and metadata stays intact (which it does not/cannot with FCP). *Anything* that carries a cost in the above is a detriment. Anything that hampers the creative process due to unnecessary effort/time/roadwork is unacceptable when there are other standards. And you truly think Vegas isn't _that_ much faster than FCP....put me up against say...Billy Goldenberg He's a pretty fast/good editor (wait...we already did that, and doing it again in Tel Aviv next month). What acquisition formats have you worked with that you'd feel comfortable comparing to AVC from a DSLR?

1. Technically, yes, some quality is lost during conversion from *.mov to ProRes for FCP, but can you REALLY tell the difference? Yes It's *very* kind of Apple to allow us to sorta half-ass see our footage, even if we can't edit it and output it. Otherwise, who cares about losing something by accident, when every other NLE on the planet allows you to keep the original file structure, metadata, etc. All that unimportant stuff just doesn't matter. Not to mention the loss of quality, loss of time. Who cares about time when we have non-linear editors that echo the time expense of Moviola/Steenbeck workflows and editing decisions that can't be re-visited once the source is gone. It is AMAZING to me how people can defend something based on its branding and pretty vs output, speed, quality, creative ability, metadata, portability, flexibility, shareability....simply because it looks cool. I once married a drop-dead gorgeous woman. She was a bitch, couldn't cook, stupid as a donkey, but damn...she looked cool on my arm. Curiously enough, her name was Lisa (same as my first "big" Apple system). Anyway....if you want speed, don't want to lose time/quality in a convert, use any editor except FCP. As far as .mov...again...just a container. If it were AVC in an AVI container, Mac people would bitch, too. .MOV is easily crossplatform compatible. I don't mind the container at all. It's everything else being said that annoys me. That said...we used to bill by project. Thanks to FCP, we can bill by the hour now. We do love working in FCP when the client is paying by the hour.

.mov is just a container. Like bitching about the bag your grocery store uses. It's AVC, and that's the beauty/bane of how these cams work. It's still a shit format that happens to allow for quality on the cheap. The conversion process....lame. Transcoding...THERE is the Apple problem. Not a PC problem; Premiere, Vegas, Canopus...all edit from the original content. Conversion is only necessary if you're really seriously pushing pixels around. Otherwise...edit native (caveat; if you have a slow/old computer, transcode) Nothing wrong with the .mov container. It offers quite a few benefits.

Expect some debate. High speed mal, nothing out, I teach students to pull silver. Once under a proper flying canopy, I recommend putting the cutaway handle in case the closing pin has dislodged and the main is at risk of falling out and causing a 2 out. Read your SIM, it has good information in it.

I chose Vigil. I have 3 CYPRES units in my rental/loaner rigs. I have Vigils in my personal rigs. Customer service was the primary reason for choice. As far as which is better...I think they each have their upsides and downsides. I'm not sponsored by either company, I voted with my dollars. 3 CYPRES, 3 Vigils.

well...you're down to four mins. Not bad for a laptop. you did change 32bit to 24, yes? Sounds to me like you're 65% better than you were. Not knowing the specific machine...I think you're probably in the range of "very good" although I'd be unhappy with that performance. Then again...laptops just aren't made for hard-core tandem workflows.