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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwO7EnM0zWM His last lecture is something that everyone should view at least once, IMO. he was a helluva guy. he tandem skydived as well, although he (oddly) doesn't talk about it in his last lecture.

1-25=18 days 26-100=88 days 100-1000 (really 996 as of today)=26 months Early winter/late spring this year didn't help. I prolly need to cool down a bit.

You mean you DON'T already have one? Mine doesn't travel, but T-Mo is da' bomb.

that's not gay, Justin is just happy to see you.

I don't understand. Slo mo can be done at camera, done with remote. In either event, you dont' have to be there, hand the remote to the instructor, who probably wants to pause, slow, stop anyway, and is likely doing same with DVD?

Found here in Japanese

do a search here for "lens tests" and you'll see the results of all the various affordable options

Don'tcha think it falls loosely into the same category as "women who write death row inmates?" I mean...we're all bad-ass death-defying freaks of nature, everyone wants to be bad-ass like us, right? "Guilt" by association?

? A guy with 54 jumps won't take a guy with nearly double that number because "he's a newbie?"

AVCHD is in the MPEG4 family, yes. Which is why I specified MPEG 2 in the previous post. You'll need to upgrade to the latest versions of iMovie and FCE to enjoy AVCHD support. I can't remember if iMovie 06 allows MPEG 2/HDV or not.

HC camcorders are HDV, which is MPEG 2. All Apple software has a conversion that makes it MPEG 2-friendly. So yes...Apple accepts HDV without a hitch. iMovie manages AVCHD now as well.

it merely looks at stabilization differently and isn't quite as reactive.

Hmm... You'll need to upgrade your FCE or iMovie for AVCHD, but otherwise...you're good to go, or should be. I don't have a system quite that old to test...Which OS version are you running?

But why would you burn a DVD for debrief?

that Quadcore will also edit HD just fine.

What editing system are you already familiar with? Do you want to learn a new one? Those are the bigger questions.

Two ways to Xfer ~Keep the MSPD stick in the cam, put the cam on the dock, and Xfer over USB ~Remove the stick, put it in any card reader that reads MSPD cards (most do), and Xfer via the card reader. This is my preferred method. I always have a stick handy, an extra in my pocket most of the time. For tandems, I hand the stick off to an editor, he dumps and empties the card for me after each jump. Then I've got hard copy of the footage on another HDD, then I format the card before next jump to be sure it's wiped. I don't NEED to do this, it's just a safety margin to prevent me from recording overtime. You can't Xfer from one AVCHD cam directly to another. There is no AVCHD support in Premiere Elements. There is no firewire on *any* AVCHD-based camcorder.

Any laptop built in the last 2 years will easily edit SD footage without hitching, using Vegas or Edius, or even Adobe Premiere. Most any recent laptop properly configured can easily edit HDV as well, without losing frames using Vegas or Edius, and some will be fine with Premiere. I edit quite often on a laptop, much of the time over the past year on my MacBook Pro running Bootcamp and Vegas.

Not in their pro software. I live in both worlds. I have four Macs in my personal space, all run Bootcamp, three run Parallels. My company has around 30 MBPs, and approx 65 PC laps. In other words, I'm non-biased; it's about the tools. The Mac vs PC debate is simply stupid. There are SO many things a Mac can't do as easily as a PC, and SO many things a PC can't do as easily as a Mac. Mac is a lifestyle and a tool. PC is a tool, period, IMO. If you wanna change your lifestyle, get a Mac. If you want a tool and don't care about the insipid head-in-the-sand philosophies that accompany iCock, iRock, and iDon'tCare, then get a Mac.

This should be a good thread; it's been discussed before, but it'll be interesting to hear what the new crop has to say. I'm still a "new" camera flyer by comparison to many of those here, so take my nickel's worth for what it's costing you.... You should be able to manage solid video, getting the shot at all angles. You should have a solid sense of deployment, how your head/neck/body manage the extra weight, balance (or lack thereof). Hopefully the helmet is set up to easily add stills vs some of the clusterf*** helmets we occasionally see around here. Stills add yet another set of (often worse) snag points. Can you fly close enough in a solid, locked on position with the video camera? IMO, you can't get great stills and great video on the same jump. You can get adequate/good on one or the other, but stills require getting from point A to B, and video doesn't quite like that as much. but that's another subject. Can you manage a bite/tongue/blow switch while flying without thinking about it? Can you recognize when something is going to happen before it does, so you have this "sixth sense" about when to pull/push/blow the trigger? Are you ready for the added responsibility of stills and all that a still camera brings to the table on your head? Can you shoot good photos on the ground? Or, you can toss on a still, keep your teeth/tongue/blow down and select the couple or more that luckily find their way to your card... It weighs more, adds balance challenges, can significantly affect your flight depending on the helmet and your skill, adds extra steps pre, during, and post flight, extra parts, extra gear you need to carry. Lots to think about when adding any new component. I took at least 25-40 jumps with one or the other before jumping with both. Too conservative? probably. But getting a bunch of stills-only jumps helped me a lot, and having had a bunch of video-only jumps did the same. Mixing them brought a whole new degree of dissatisfaction and self-criticism of my talents.

Well....looks like you got lost on your way to Miami, cuz you ended up in Utah! Congrats on nearly getting your "A"!!! Good pack jobs, sweet openings..we loved having you here at Skydive Utah! Hope to see you back soon.

No issues. Just drill holes and mount. I have a couple Cookie HC boxes, one on an Optic. Works very well.

dvinfo.net has quite a bit of it.

what is your current platform? If you're a Mac user, get another Mac, although for HD, 3K isn't gonna get you very far. If you're a PC user, you can use off the shelf if you're using HDV or AVCHD, faster is better. If you're SD, doesn't really matter what you get. Both platforms have advantages, both platforms have disadvantages. You can get into high level video much less expensively on a PC than on a Mac, but Bootcamp also makes the PC access pretty easy. FAR, FAR more options on a PC than Mac for editing. You're gonna want multi-core, fast CPU's, at LEAST two HDD's, one for media, one for OS...If XP is your thing, 2GB of RAM, if Vista is your thing, then at least 4GB of RAM, if MAC...as much RAM as you can afford. Dual head vid card DVD burn (maybe BD?) Lots of slots Lots of USB 1394 connection Card bay is nice I'm missing a few things here, it's late.