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Many dropzones already do this as a matter of course during the waiver process, for both experienced and first-time skydivers.

Congrats to: FIRST PLACE-ELSINORE BAD WINGS (Joel Hindman/Val Sobol) Camera-Tom van Dijck SECOND PLACE-"SOMETHING DIFFERENT" (Darren Burke/Zach Schroedel) Camera-DSE/Tom van Dijck THIRD PLACE-"FUCKIN' AROUND" (Andreea Olea/Shellie Anderson) Camera-Jarno Cordia FREE ROUND-"SOMETHING DIFFERENT (Zach Schroedel/Darren Burke) Camera-Jarno Cordia The free round was not part of the compulsories and was not judged by the Chief Judge/judges. The Free Round was judged by the group, and it was unanimously decided that Zach and Darren had assembled the most creative and intense relative work dive. Best all-around camera: JARNO CORDIA Lots of great jumps, many great friends. Special nod to Mark Fischer who just began wingsuiting, and had 3-4 jumps in a Phantom 2 prior to the comp. Great kudos to Jarno for amazing camera flying. Note of merit to Val Sobol with fewer than 100 WS jumps, had her first chop (teammate chased it to the ground) and was back on the next load to go on to win the comp. Jan Meyer did a terrific job as Chief Judge, Sydney Owen work'd her ass off not only as a judge, but also an organizer, food manager, registration, TShirt design/maintenance, and all-all around kick-ass gal. Thanks to the folks at Skydive Elsinore manifest for keeping the loads turning quickly, and to the terrific attitude that all the competitors displayed. See ya this fall!

Render As; customize template.

768kpbs is the problem. You're taking an 18Mbps stream and cutting it down in size to almost nothing. Change out the bitrate/use a template with a higher bitrate. 6Mbps is a good average, 10Mbps is a good max

Did you need help for dress ?? Better believe I did... Wouldn't you? Love the new Ghost!! (Thanks for the pic, Jarno)

Great group of people here for the competition from all over the world; Super fun stuff. Brits, Dutch, Canadian, and folks from east/central/western USA. Go teams! As a first competition of this kind in the USA, we're pretty excited at the quality of competitors at today's practice jumps. Jarno Cordia and myself coaching, watch the Facebook page for pix, video, and scores. Dinner tomorrow evening catered by the Alligator Pit.

Hey gang, As an FYI, Bonehead has some new custom helmet options available. Check em' out at http://www.boneheadcomposites.com or give em' a call. Looking forward to seeing some sweet custom helmets

Hard work pays off. Congratulations for setting the bar so very high.

On the subject of outside camera and tandems, we'll just have to agree to disagree. True...there are worse cameras available in this topic, but not much.

no doubt, content is king. Always. This is why shit cameras can be used for almost any situation, and people will accept an inferior product, because in many instances, it's the only choice. I find it amusing that some simply aim for the bottom/bare minimum.

Actually, they do. This came up during an NAB panel about consumer complaints. It's also why no network will accept more than 10% of the program time being sourced from small-format cameras. Agreed entirely. GoPro and similar are not terrible for video (just that pesky audio and lens thing) at all.

Transcoding is foolish when using Vegas or Premiere. Matching timeline settings won't affect a final render.

Oy, I failed to read Hero "2"in the original post. What Trunk says. Do that.

If it's a GoPro Hero2 and has an external mic on it, and if it's on the head of skilled flyer, and if he's able to get the tandem to land exactly where he lands every time and if the dropzone has a computer system configured for highspeed turnaround of AVC vs AVCHD, and if...a few other things...then the GP2 is fine. The 180 lens on this camera requires very close flying. If the tandem isn't landing really close to the videographer, then the landing looks as though it's a mile away and it might as well be a stock footage landing. Audio on the GP2 blows too, but with a good external mic, it's quite nice. Face it, the video camera (like the CX100) don't weigh much at all. Stills are the weight due to quality glass. Glass isn't ever going to get cheaper, but we are starting to see some smaller format still cams (like the nEX series and Canon Gseries) that do a terrific job with less lens. But still heavier than a CX, which isn't a whole lot heavier than the GP. The weight argument holds a lot of water when we're talking older DV cams and older, clunky stills. I (personally) have a difficult time with that argument as relates to today's cameras.

Grain may be less visible in media player due to smaller resolution of playback, smaller window, any number of issues. Grain can only be inserted during compression if improper compression settings are applied. More valuable information is : What are you rendering to? Resolution Bitrate Codec The kind of card isn't relevant, FWIW.

if you're not delivering on thumbdrives and HD you're two years behind.

I'd recommend setting the r2 or r3 as the setting for video. Buy any name brand card (Sandisk, Lexar, etc) that is class 4 or faster. Costco and Walmart sell em'.

Several people are here already; a few for the PF/Wingsuit standards gathering on thursday night. Looking forward to seeing this comp bring a new dimension to US Wingsuiting! See y'all soon!

My Ghost 3 arrived yesterday. It's my second G3, the first one is pretty worn at over 800 jumps.

one slot left in this course, if you'd like to participate, please contact Skydive Elsinore Manifest. (951) 245-9939 One of the manifest ladies can set you up. Rod Ken Kaleb all arrive on Thursday for the pre-course evals. Looking forward to seeing several of you here at Elsinore for the standardization meeting on Thursday, April 26. Please bring a thumbdrive or SD card with you.

Operating a school specific to one discipline, many people don't have the gear they need...ergo...multiple rigs with various canopy sizes. I'd urge you to at least put on a Curv, simply because everyone else that has, wishes they had one.

They're actually quite similar, in size and compression. Hero2 uses the Cineform codec that helps, but still isn't remotely the same as AVCHD at 18mpbs. If you feel the T2i matches the GoPro...wow. The two images are identically compressed for comparative value, and from my side there is a significant difference between the two. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Visually, technically, and practically, small format cameras (for stills) don't begin to approach what any reasonable person would call "quality" or "professional" in my (and industry) view.

I'm guessing you didn't read my post above; most of the small format cameras are in my toolbox. Of course you're correct; opinions vary. In my opinion, I wouldn't be comfortable selling/giving stills from a small format camera (like the GoPro) and selling it as anything but a photo from a cell phone and calling them 'printable' (same sensor/imagers and similar codec). If real quality isn't part of the conversation, sure...small format camera stills are terrific for the web. Attached are two files, both scaled to the same size. One is from the GoPro2, the other from an older t2i, on the same jump, both shooting stills. Some folks are great with the lower quality, others aren't. Some folks are happy delivering screengrabs from small format cameras too. If customers can see "real" photos next to cellphone/GoPro photos, I'd submit they'd take real photos if given the opportunity. _My_ preference is to give people the highest quality that is reasonably afforded to produce. It also provides a small cushion of value separation from the guy with 30 jumps and a GoPro on his head set to capture a photo every 2 seconds. This is where the conversation varies on the topic of "professional," and I entirely agree; it's quite subjective.

Unfortunately, so many people measurebate with megapixel values. Compression and lens are far, far (add as many "fars" in there as you can) and those factors are much more significant than megapixels. Having a Hero2 (and a few RePlays, Contours, OregonScientific, Pivothead, Epic, Atom/Muvi, Tachyon, VIo, and pretty much every other small-format camera out there...they all blow for stills (IMO) The NEX7, Canon G10/11's are great, the small kodaks, and even new Cybershots with wireless remote are about the same weight/size, and take much better pix, even though they're not bulletproofed enough for tandem work on a busy DZ (again, my opinion). Additionally, I personally hate the look of 180 lenses on tandems and most other vids. I'm sponsored by a couple small camera companies, but I'm more interested in providing a quality product and using the small cams for b-roll.

I believe (perhaps wrongfully) that customers want to be able to print their photos, regardless of what format in which they're delivered. Me...I'd be embarrassed to be delivering "professional" quality flying with significantly less than professional quality resolution/colorspace. YMMV.