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Here are our received photos.Choose your fave, winner will receive a stock audio library "Adrenalize!" valued at 100.00

a few things will really slow down rendering. A-shooting HD when delivering SD isn't a great means of working, but it shouldn't be a 2:1 render time, either B-Adding FX, especially those that require spatial shift (blurs, light rays, etc) will seriously slow down renders. C-be SURE you haven't accidentally put the opacity to anything but 100%. This is why there is the Audit tool in the VASST Production Assistant and Ultimate S plugins for Vegas Pro (These plugs don't work in Movie Studio).

At some near point, Andreea's copious minutes will be translated/boiled down to a summary and it will be posted once Flock n' Dock has settled out. In short (as expected) no conclusions were asked for nor reached. It was a verbal vomit from the community that was at Flock n' Dock, and in that light, it was a very good, very civil discussion of various aspects of things as they currently are in the wingsuit community. The meeting included a very wide variety of people from a very broad cross section of DZ's across America. All but 3 people attending are members of the USPA. If nothing else, it is the genesis of dialog within the wingsuiting community about what we want as a community, even if no action items nor specific, measurable, achieveable, realistic goals were proposed nor set out. But we talked. And a lot of good things were said. A lot of BS was put out there too. But...we did identify some areas in which we'd like to take control, be judged, have input as a community, Kallend, Andreea and Zach made specific mention of your methodology and drew related info on the board to demonstrate. Huge thanks to Monkey, Scott Bland, Andreea, Scotty, Zach, Jarno for helping to pull off a last minute change of address and plan, for helping with beer and pizza, and helping to keep the meeting civil and as relevant as possible. Thank you to the 30+ people that attended, many of whom contributed, asked some very salient questions, had some wonderful points of debate on all sides, and offered valuable input. No thanks to Dominos for having their number on a hotel room card but not even knowing where the hotel they're delivering to is located.

That about sums it up... Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting, thank you particularly to those who spoke up, thank you to those that contributed, and tremendous thanks to those that brought out questions never before heard. Hopefully a few kernels of value can be extrapolated from the morass of divergent directions. I started the meeting calling it a verbal vomit session, and that's much of what it turned out to be. Thanks for the in-room and ex-cathedral comments regarding the idea of a wingsuit association for the US groups.

Well...if you're not here, you've already missed out. The morning was windy/cool/dark so the larger portion of the group went for breakfast. Enroute, several combination foot and hand docks were taken, including a double foot/hand dock. None of the vehicle's occupants were cited, even tho we did take up the entire road. During breakfast, Scott Bland was causing trouble; the restaurant owner wanted Scott to sit in a corner all by himself (actually they just didn't want the firedoor blocked even tho we were the only people in the restaurant). More docks occurred on the drive back to the DZ, including one type of dock heretofore never seen. I predict nipple docks at 60mph will become all the rage when the video gets released. Two groups on the first loads of the day once the wind died a bit and the sun peeked out. Andreea was obviously trained by Purple Mike; After a long flight that was totally on-heading, she spied a puffy within flying distance and in her demo PhoenixFly V3, she sped off. She and her photographer ended up 4 miles as the crow flies, and 7.4 miles by road, from the DZ. Best thing heard all day was from Manifest, letting Mike know there was a parcel there for him. The announcement came over the PA, "Mike, you have a small package...." and that was it. Most of us were laughing too hard to stand straight. Jumping was called off for a while when the winds picked up; a lively discussion of wingsuiting formations took place in the interim with a smallish group of a dozen or so. Winds died just at sunset and the last load touched down at 7 p.m. There was allegedly the "worlds longest-ever foot dock" that took place on that jump. Video will soon be available. Dinner at Manolo's with 20+people rounded out the night.

I still think a wingsuit is the way to do this, even if won't move forward much in the first thousands of feet.

you can always do the "Columbo" thing. Go there (the agency or the prospective employer) and try this tactic; "You know, achieving this position was something I'd really been excited about. Obviously I wasn't successful. However, I'm also interested in learning more about myself. Can you give me any specifics as to why I was unsuccessful so I won't repeat the same mistake again?" If at the agency, they should be interested in helping you because they make $$ when you get your job. If at the employer, this last-ditch effort tells them a whole lot about you. It's a great technique, and one I've used to salvage a few film projects that otherwise would have gone to someone else. People want to help you, and in the process of saying "you were this, you said that" you get to listen and then respond with "Wow! I didn't mean to come across that way," or "I can't believe I was so foolish to have not included that information." And next thing you know....the door is open once again (sometimes).

nah, you're not a pain in the ass. I'd meant to post them this morning but Southwest Air and a very long, wet motorcycle ride to Flock n' Dock got in the way.

renaming the vob file to .mpg works fine in later versions of premiere, but if you don't have an MPEG decoder associated, it won't decode.

If you want your rating in Tandemnauti, you have to see JP Furnari. He's the only Tandemnauti I/E out there.

Did you uninstall Encore? Premiere uses the MC MPEG decoder from Encore

No. Do not cut your armwings free. A-takes time you may not have. B-Spins are caused by asymmetrical surfaces. Cutting away a wing isn't likely going to help you, but it likely will help the spin continue. FWIW, a lot of experienced wingsuiters have experimented with flat spin recovery techniques. Ever since seeing how Nebelkopf intitiates and recovers from very violent flatspins and seeing Matt Gold's video from Moab, I've played with them quite a bit. I'm of the "collapse wings, arch, fly out of it" camp. I've logged 15 jumps with intentional flat spins, one violent enough to give me bloodshot eyes. Balling up in a big suit, big body, and not being very flexible didn't work nearly as well as collapsing, arching, flying. Just like we all learned in AFF. Different suits, different body styles, different instructors...YMMV BTW, if you watch the "Wingsuits 202" DVD, you'll see a couple small flatspins, and in one, the student balls up and it takes a long while to get out while the other (in a worse spin) tracks out of it very quickly.

AWESOME!!!!!! Who said docked flight wasn't feasible? Look how far it's come in just a few months.

like I said...put your stills on an FTP, and unless there is a LOT of video to edit, I'll cut it for you in a few mins. Get a trial copy of Sony Vegas, cut it in a short time. Get a trial of Premiere, cut it in a short time... All of the tools are available as trial tools.

Congrats again, Emily. Elsinore is a better place than usual when your huge smile is around. It was so great to see you have that huge grin. Bummer that work takes you away on such a wonderful weekend. A few of us raised a bottle in your honor tonight at the Swiss/German party.

Congrats on receiving your "A" license today, Emily!

http://www.lookma.de/Starting_Page/starting_page.html look at the TWallet. Comes with a skydiving warning label sewn inside and everything. Has a "secret" compartment for jump tix, too.

Mac or PC makes no difference. In fact, for MUCH consumer level video work, PC is significantly superior in several ways. Anyway... How much content is there? If it's mostly stills needing pan/crops, etc, upload to an FTP with direction and I can do it in a coupla minutes.

"Learn to love your belly before you begin exploring your butt." I once said it in jest, but I was also serious. Flying your belly is so much more than most think. Practice side slides, backsliding, transitions from belly to back, Practice staying stable in front of another skydiver, close with no movement. It's harder than you think. Get wings, practice flying with wings. If you're heavy at all, you'll need em. Even if you're reasonably light, you'll want them for range more than for float. They'll change your flight dynamic, you'll need to learn to drive while keeping a steep angle. Get indirectly below some 2-4 way groups. Learn to orbit. Learn to float and sink fast. Learn to float, sink, orbit, and drive all at the same time. LOTS to learn before putting the lens on, and lots of fun to be had in the process. Use the Kodak in your brain, it'll help you more than you think.

one thing to consider....since you have time, talk to as many people as you can. A *lot* of folks start "acquiring" gear early on in hopes of jumping and they end up buying the wrong stuff for what they're wanting to do (camera or not). Jumpsuit, wings, flat top, side mount/top mount, camEye/HypEye, ringsight, lollipop, paper asshole, cutaway, chin strap, chincup, one audible, two audible, light indicator, yadayayayada...it's a lot to figure out. Making a plan and then ripping it apart bit by bit will help you know what you want. You can learn to start flying video without video. Ed Dickenson, Norman Kent, Jack Guthrie, and a few others helped me start flying camera long before I put one on my head. Getting some coaching on camera techniques helped a lot. Learning to do RW helped a LOT, coaching jumps helped a lot, and having people jump as a fast/slow base helped a lot. There is a tremendous amount of opportunity to learn without the lens on your head. Chat with the folks "in the know" around your DZ and make it known that you'd like to fly with them with the goal of flying a camera at a future date. When you do put the camera on, it'll feel "old hat" and you won't feel the learning curve is as steep.

Although my info is posted and I'm easy to find... When I was in the hospital following a skydiving incident, i was there under a patient number/no name. Even my family could not get information about whether I was there or not. Yet a nutjob skydiver showed up and made threats while I was in the ICU. Some people are really that "off." Were it possible, I'd protect my privacy too.

Still charging more for HD delivery on Blu-ray or DVD5 for PS3/BD players. Didn't think it would last this long... 100% more. Delivery is also charged for web delivery, and we can deliver to flash drives but we don't provide those.

But it's always interesting when he's around. Hey, who's teaching any segments of Safety Day at their DZ? I'm doing "proper use of landing pattern to help prevent canopy collisions."

'Tis a very cool game vid, Jarno. Looking forward to seeing the finished product. The wingsuit has some very realistic moves. What about things like camera shake, stalls, exits?