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This would suggest two things to me; A-the vegas machines are slower and/or aren't using media that is speed-equivalent to the max speed of the burner or B-their system is not optimized properly. A disc on a reasonably fast system should be under 1.5 mins. One of the instructors here bought a new Gateway 2 days ago, it's fairly low end from a Staples or similar. His system out of the box burns only at 16x, but his media is 8x. Still only took 1min, 20 seconds to burn and spit it out. Optimizint the system is fairly important. That said, having Pinnacle 14 on the same machine as Vegas Pro 9....there is no comparison. Pinnacle does have a few cool wizards, but the instability in a high pressure environment, the lack of system=recallable templates and slug replacement make it a deal breaker for me. But that said, also very pleased to hear a report of GOOD stuff about Pinnacle. The one single feature Pinnacle has over any "value" NLE is the lack of recompression required for low-bitrate MPEG 2. THAT is very cool.

Wind hitting the palm first actually makes shake worse, not better. It puts the camera in a changing burble instead of being constantly pressurized in a stable stream of air. hence the reason for demanding a stiff base.

You can get a Kayak for about 19K completely fitted for output to BD. Or you can use a computer.

Could we all agree that the head is the best place, as it's the least subjective? Measuring from the middle of a 5' person to the middle of a 6' person is not terribly different than measuring from the head of a 5' person to the head of a 6' person. Jarno and I already went through that exercise before. Do we need to define the camera position regardless of whether it's above or below, given that camera angle makes for a significant difference in the measurement of angle error, and it's compounded greatly if it's far enough away and the tips of the formation are in the bend of the lens. On that note, lens distortion can play a huge role (skewing the edges of the formation) and I'd suggest that a photo should not be altered in any way if it's being judged. Removing lens distortion is quite easy and quite exact, but it could be used as a way to bring something "into tolerance" as well. Avoiding the issue entirely seems to be the safe route. re; dots. If we're serious about critical dot placement, perhaps we could agree about a literal dot of some color or other being placed on the back of a helmet. Something nasty in color that would stand out on any helmet. Pink. Fuschia. Lime. Orange. Inventory dots, reflective dots, whatever.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so a video must be worth a million. The linked clip should answer the question better than I can. The value starts at about 1 mins. Watch the timer. This was done on an old single core computer. A quad core or 8 core is VERY fast.

Why is that? Lodi is probably one of the busiest dz's in the US with wingsuits, and most never do. Lodi doesn't have weird winds from mountains? I dunno. I have only once landed off when flying myself (long distance run cross wind) or with one/two other people. But have had several off-landings with Purple Mike, J-sho, Jeff, and a few others leading the flock.

Yea, I've worked with Pinnacle 14. Has lotsa wizards. And it is unstable as hell (like all Pinnacle products post version 4). I'm confused about "learning curve" comments for Sony Vegas. It's freakin EASY compared to Pinnacle and other apps. Yeah, Premiere has a bit of a steep curve, but Edius and Vegas are simple as hell. And Vegas can be automated. Simply put, there is NOTHING. PERIOD. that compares to Vegas for tandem video. Nothing. Pinnacle barely gets dev $$ from Avid these days (just ask their product manager. I go back 18 years with that guy). He'll be the first to apologize for their lack of stability. Writing apps on very old code is precarious when moving to Vista and Win7 environments.

Given what your experience is, what you're jumping out of, and overall performance, i'd sure look hard at the PhoenixFly Phantom 2Z. It's a great suit without a lot of wing.

At least a thousand jumps on mine. I always carry one; wingsuits often land off. And it's fun to call manifest from 3000' when you know you're landing off. Cuts the wait time. Never had a problem with it freezing up in air or on ground.

Left in the field to mature for a minimum of a year, but with MANY jumps dedicated to the growth and testing. Starting with minimum numbers on the conservative side is great, but we might find that additional deviations may need to be allowed. Formations that are beyond wedges or diamonds need to be tested, because that's the direction a lot of our flocking is going. A nod to turning points will likely need to be a part of testing as well, because we know we're heading that direction. Considering aspects that might translate to 3D flight should also be part of the discussion. The best thing about John's system is that it appears to be applicable at several levels.

Didn't fly from EU, but flew from Canada last weekend and the previous week. Previous week; forced to check it. I had a bag just in case (anything with backpack straps or over a certain size couldn't be brought on board) I also wasn't allowed n iPod but could carry my phone. Last week, no problem. Carried into cabin, no sweat. I'd check with your local airport, as it seems the TSA regs have various interpretations that are implemented at various times.

At 210 without gear, you'll probably want bigger wings for greater range. You can always close wings down, but it's difficult to add more in the air. When you're with that small TI and small student, you'll wish for big wings at times. I second the mention for the RSL vs Fastex. I'm a fan of them clipped to harness vs leg, as being clipped to a leg means your leg changes the dynamic of the wing. However, a lot of great flyers fly the leg-snaps too.

It's pretty obvious that this is already the case. While there is good discussion here in the values, the question that next needs to be asked is "how good should a record be?" and find an answer via more dialog. Other questions: Should there be an "intermediate" and "Advanced" set of values as there is in other classes of competition? Should there be a differing set of values for say, a 9 way vs a multiplane load? Should all experience levels, formation sizes adhere to one standard?

IMO, 20% is fair. We tested various formations for accuracy (formations that have been submitted as records) and found as much as 25% tolerance was required. 10% seems too demanding for larger formations.

Since you reinstalled windows, it may/likely is that the driver you require for that card is not on the sytem. So...find the card brand/model number. Go to their website, and download the relevant driver. If it's a motherboard-mount, then the drivers will be found on the CD/DVD that came with the motherboard, but you can also find that driver on the motherboard manufacturers website. Since you obviously don't have that machine able to go online without a card, a library, friend with a laptop or desktop, and a thumbdrive should suffice.

Look at Pinnacle's forums, or search around here. You'll quickly see that not many use it. Crash-prone, no automation, and won't be any faster than the several more stable apps available. But...if it's what you know, it might be worth a go.

As well as having it in the computer for coming up with numbers, it makes it easy to send off a project file, still image, etc to the web or other delivery mechanism for peer and perhaps judicial review.

No lens chart available, but as expected, it looks pretty bad with cheapo lenses. Lens Comparisons-Century .55 and .5 mounted together Decide for yourself if it works for you. The loss in resolution can't be measured in these images, but it's fairly apparent anyway. Note in the combined lenses there is also a lot of refraction. Some might like the look, but the vignetting, added distortion, and refraction make it a no-go for me except in some very weird circumstances.

Thanks, Scott. Copy/Paste on a blackberry doesn't always work well.

In Reply To You can do that, while at the same time discussing who could IMPROVE this and that part of his flying. And in this context is where the value in *any* debriefing system, be it a bunch of lines on a screen, software that shows lines, or drawing lines through a piece of paper, scanning it, and putting up on a screen is invaluable; it allows each person to see their position in any given moment in time, and make adjustments to their perception of the sight picture, approach, etc. Piisfish, I can understand why it would appear that it's "Birdman" against the world but in truth, it's not. It's just that Birdman happened to be willing to give their mailing list to the "pro-grid" folks. But not all Birdman flyers are in support of the grid. fact. Many are not. One person from that list sent this email out to the USPA and copied me on it. Pity he's not a member of the USPA. Even more unfortunate is an email that went out to hundreds of non-wingsuiters asking them to submit their opinion on the grid. I would never deign to tell CRW, FF, FS, or Freestyle people how their discipline should be judged, because I know nothing about those disciplines. Quote Sorry for the earlier version, copy/paste on a blackberry doesn't work as easily as it should.

And in this context is where the value in *any* debriefing system, be it a bunch of lines on a screen, software that shows lines, or drawing lines through a piece of paper, scanning it, and putting up on a screen is invaluable; it allows each person to see their position in any given moment in time, and make adjustments to their perception of the sight picture, approach, etc. Piisfish, I can understand why it would appear that it's "Birdman" against the world but in truth, it's not. It's just that Birdman happened to be willing to give their mailing list to the "pro-grid" folks. But not all Birdman flyers are in support of the grid. fact. Many are not. One person from that list sent this email out to the USPA and copied me on it. Pity he's not a member of the USPA. Even more unfortunate is an email that went out to hundreds of non-wingsuiters asking them to submit their opinion on the grid. I would never deign to tell CRW, FF, FS, or Freestyle people how their discipline should be judged, because I know nothing about those disciplines.

Actually, you won't. Lazslo taught me a technique a few years ago when I asked him how he was getting the shot on his belly. He has a photo of him in "the position" that is pretty amazing. You're never under the tandem. But you're cranked back hard, and almost knee flying.

I think it's worth the 30.00, but others make disagree

Was it supposed to be compressed? Hard to evaluate unless you know what it was supposed to look like. Oy. No wonder you don't like computers, you don't understand them. You might want to tell that to the 50,000+ people who bought my flight simulation software and the dozens of research labs around the world that use my crystal analysis software I'm terribly embarrassed. And was incorrect. My apologies.

Thanks for looking out for my best interests. I think the 40 wingsuit jumps I'd knocked out in the 2 weeks previous to the bigway had me more qualified than several of the people you had voted "yes" for. Bottom line: I didn't/don't support the grid, but I do support wingsuiting. I was there in Elsinore, did the jumps before hand, and was flying fine. I was there to jump, spent the money, effort, and wanted the TShirt. S'all good, tho. [edit[ The 73 way record is still a 73 way record. It matters more than the 68 way in that it was about the people, about the heart and soul they put into it. The 68 way is still a USPA record, even after the grid is redacted and repealed. It's still an amazing event.