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Thank you! There is another video guy at my DZ that is looking to avoid the DSLR and still get the same results and payout. It is never going to happen, and it looks like our DZ isn't going to let it even happen, not good for the students, PR or anyone for that matter. I guess maybe personal use but never for resale. Never say "never" but it'll be a while still. We'll next seen Canon and Nikon battling over shooting both, but the compression standards have to change. With J2K and similar compressions, we CAN achieve this in the very near future.

Members of the Exec Committee have been made aware of, and read this thread. That was how I learned of the very recent "issuance" of a "conditional AFF rating." FWIW, a "conditional AFF rating" is for someone who is only allowed to jump reserve side.

Nicely understated. FWIW, there is a training DVD on using Media Manager, hosted by one of IBM's database engineers.

FWIW, the Media Manager in Sony Vegas allows exactly this. Metatags can be inserted into a video clip, with up to 1000 fields per clip. It's cross referenced, indexed by a wide variety of objects. Metatags can include thumbnails, searchable by multiple keywords, etc. Unlike other apps, it does not make copies of clips, so you only use addresses to existing pieces of data.

vasst.com has training DVDs for sale Totaltraining.com has training DVDs Lynda.com has online video training Adobe.com has TONS of free training.

I'll post the vid tomorrow, got pretty hung up shooting/jumping today. It was educational for me, too. Either cam will work, but I think folks will see the value of the cheaper cam. One thing is for sure; the better imager is plainly evident in the color accuracy of the CX500, gamma is slightly better, and contrasts are better defined.

are you looking for technical information or creative information?

Looks very nice. Very much worth looking through.

There are several recent videos of Babylon, Jeff Nebelkopf, Jarno Cordia/flylikebrick, and others doing wingsuit head down in recent times, in addition to the legacy vids that have been out there for a while. But... the discipline (like every discipline) is indeed evolving. Flocking has to move on to something else. This is likely yet one more area that the discipline will grow into; aerobatics with freeflying. Check out the worldwingsuitnews.com site to see what's new with jet engines and wingsuiting.

Skydivingmovies.com doesn't have a monopoly. If you build it, they will come. Perhaps. I'm sure you can come up with a creative URL.

This is an OLD song, but be sure no antivirus is running in the background while editing. this comes up so often, it should probably be part of the sticky novel. During editing processes, nothing should be running in the background, antivirus in particular.

My newest book, "Sony Vegas Pro 9 Editing Workshop" was just released today. Although I'm proud of the book, I'm more excited that this book will be on shelves with a skydiving covershot, teken by our own Scotty Burns. Very nice job, Scotty! I'm grateful to my publisher (Focal Press) for allowing me to use this kind of photo this time around. Usually they determine what's on the cover.

Can you believe it, one I/E gave someone a "conditional AFF rating.." Apparently, there is no such rating. I agree, parts of the system are broken. I agree again, it is a shame. Hopefully standards will be reiterated and somehow enforced, as this thread (and some of your comments) make it appear as though I/E's have relaxed the supposedly stringent requirements.

Purses and non-shared personal drawers (ie; lingerie) are off limits. Always. I'm not afraid of what I might find there, just that a woman's "things" are private. If she wants you to see them, she'll show you. I dunnow where I got this taboo concept, but have always felt that there are just places that one doesn't go. The purse and lingerie drawers are the two biggies.

No real clue...do you delete or format after it's full? You should always format. Also, it may be that the card says it's rated, but it truly isn't. Try a different card, see if it offers a different result?

as Trunk suggests, you well may have a counterfeit card. They're pretty common; I got burned not too long ago. Other caution; although the camera supports 16GB cards, I've had two 16GB fail in my 100, and have three that work. Go figure.

Very nice, Dale. Perfect practice for your goal!

I don't fly tandem handcam and likely never will. I agree with much of the letter found in Parachutist, I'd like to offer this up; People that pay for video don't just want to see themselves doing something, they want to see themselves doing it in the environment in which it's done. The experience calls for the vastness of the sky, the distance to the ground, and their miniscule presence in all of it. Seeing a pair of faces up close says nothing about the experience itself, and doesn't begin to define the environment in which it's done. Maybe, had film taken its basic steps in another world, another time, viewers wouldn't expect to see an establishing shot, a medium shot, and a close-up to draw them in. From a fixed position, hand-cam simply cannot in now way, ever provide that experience whereas outside video can. *IF* the hand cam is the only thing to be used, then a wider lens should be the preference, simply because it DOES provide more experiential imagery. Otherwise, it's breaking a basic rule of photography, and that is shooting with an eye-height tripod with a 55mm lens. No one cares to see things as they saw it. They want more and/or different. A very wide lens (.25.2, .175) provides a view that the student DIDN'T see, therefore allowing them to relive their experience from a point of semireality, seeing new things and re-experiencing the sensations based on personal and new memory. And that....is what it's all about. BTW, although your reference to the rule of thirds is of course, correct,I think there is a mis-understanding of the powerpoints and frame composition. Cutting yourself out because you are "butt-ugly" only challenges the frame and provides imbalance. The weight should be at the bottom of the frame, not at the top, and certainly not cutting someone out of the image in favor of a light bottom frame. If you're going to provide an equal or higher quality product, then shooting (and most likely providing stock media) good footage is critical. An empty foreground generally goes against all rules of photography outside of specific intentionalities.

youtube has nothing to do with "technologically advanced." It's highly compressed footage using Flash technology. With DV at 13GB per hour, it can't be used as a streaming source. Either way, if you're concerned about quality, YouTube isn't going to provide an answer. If you're determined to buy a helmet that will fit a 109, then buy a 109 and accept the limitations that accompany it. No, I don't have a better means of showing off the camera; haven't shot DV for several years. Perhaps someone can send you a couple of seconds if it makes a difference. The cam has been discontinued for at least 5 years, so bear in mind, you may be buying a helmet designed for a 109, and you'll struggle finding 109's that work well, and/or are repairable.

Something like that.

Consider that there are no good cams in a low price range that are progressive, outside of the Canon DSLR's, and those are not really considered video. Consider that in ALL price classes, interlaced acquisition drives the bus. Consider that even progressive content is interlaced, then de-interlaced at broadcast, and that every display made in the past four years expects an interleaved/interlaced signal. DVDs output interlaced signals for the most part. Progressive certainly has its place, and will continue to grow. But it also consumes a lot of bandwidth for acquisition and delivery that interlacing doesn't. Progressive imaging isn't at ALL new, although some companies want you to think it was. Progressive imaging was invented BEFORE interlacing was. Problem was (and still is) the bandwidth progressive imaging requires for broadcast and display, which is why television has been (and will be) interlaced in some form or another for a long, long time to come.

For writing to a card, speed isn't terribly important. Reading from a card, you want the fastest that is reasonably affordable. Class 2: 2 MBps - 13x Class 4: 4 MBps - 26x Class 6: 6 MBps - 40x

Remmie, you are AWESOME to share the wealth!! Happy to help with the transfer of your monies. Bank of St. Thomas Account 5477-69-277 I've given this account to several Nigerian scammers, but darn it all, that money just hasn't shown up yet. But i KNOW I can trust you, right?

It's *almost* impossible to know anything about a camera based on what you see on Youtube. Most people don't understand compression and how to get it to Youtube with quality. Therefore, what may have been a quality image to begin with looks terrible on Youtube, and what may be a terrible image to begin with looks reasonably good once compressed and resized. DV is DV, which is what the PC109 is. Same exact quality as the HC40 and later series. IMO, I can't imagine anyone starting out starting out with DV anymore. Please fill out your profile?

The answer to your question is dependent on a few factors, but *generally* an image acquired as progressive is a better quality image than one acquired as interlaced and then deinterlaced. If you're acquiring in 1080i and outputing as 720p, you're better off in some ways, although 720p actually as around 30% greater resolution than 1080i converted to 720p. However, there is this think called "Kell" that offsets that 30% gain. Panasonic tried to use Kell in their marketing hype until the industry more or less let them know how full of shit they were. 60i is still the BEST way to grab motion unless you can shoot 60p. Even then, the way that 60p is derived is pretty important, so there is more to the discussion than simply saying "I'm shooting with a progressive camera vs an interlaced camera." In many cases, the cameras shooting progressive have interlaced imagers, and are merely PsF outputs of that interlaced signal. This'll give you a start if you wanna play with Google.