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Kenny Daniel has been working on something similar. Voice commands for navigation, glide ratio, and speed. He's been dev'ing for the Android.

Brooke is pretty impressive too. (MB38 here on DZ.com)

The free FFC's on thursday are a lot of fun. Sign up with Sydney in the office, we'll see ya Thursday evening!!

"Marjoe" won the 1972 Academy Award for best doc. It was found and recently restored. Worth watching, regardless of religious background. The film includes the marriage ceremony he legally performed at the age of 4. If you enjoyed Steve Martin in "Leap of Faith," you'll love this doc.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegasproassist/howtouse Good place to start.

HypEye kit with Optima audible. Works great.

Final Cut X Adobe Premiere would be your best choices for the Apple platform. Both can export still shots/frame grabs. Both are moderately priced.

I have only two jumps with the RED Epic on my head. I have several jumps with Joe Jennings where he is wearing his RED Epic. Norman Kent just finished a fairly large project using a RED Epic on his helmet too. Several guys usin' em' these days. I'd rather an Epic than a 7D if it's a paying gig, that's for sure

if those are "positive thoughts" I'm curious what negative thoughts look like.

I work in production as well. The kind of production you likely work in....most have left FCP behind, but that's another topic. No Apple product will work well in a tandem environment, as the product doesn't allow multiple copies to be open. Need to be editing, rendering, burning all at the same time? Can't do it in FCP (or any other app) and this is one of the singular reasons Sony Vegas is used on most dropzones around the world in some config or another. Need to automate ingest, naming, editing process? Same answer as above. Need support for AVC or AVCHD without transcoding (GoPro, CX Series, and most other small format cameras)...Apple doesn't have a solution. Speed on a day when you have 100 tandems is critical. Production becomes "mass production." Any application that can't multitask is immediately out the window. Unless you're also suggesting that the DZO purchase 5-6 8core systems?

Start by working elbows lower down and wrist/hand higher up. Tuck chin into chest. work this position and gradually bring hands down. You'll feel the stability point. Tighten buttocks to create dearch (you're on your back), and gradually open legs. You'll feel it. The key is the elbows and hips, but eventually, you'll fly fully open on your back. C'mon over, we'll have you solid really fast. I think I owe you a jump anyway?

We hand it over on weekends, and either hand pass or mail on weekdays when it's not busy enough to warrant an editor being there all day

The tunnel in Ogden has some very heads-up people that have worked with several folks with varying physical challenges. Check in with Dusty.

People don't drop toggles, didn't you know that? It's certainly worthy of a conversation. I dropped/released/let go of a toggle on a flare and it cost everything from my L5 to my ACL/PCL. It happened so fast at the flare. *maybe* I could have gotten a rear riser had I been more adept and fast thinking. Since my accident, it's a practice to loop my palms through and pass the control line between my index and middle finger. Perhaps had I thought about it in advance of that jump, or been trained to deal with it, the outcome might have been different. What are your suggestions?

Color doesn't matter. It's all about the flames painted over it.

Ditto for mine.

A few things: Source was .mov? How did it get contained in a .mov file? CorelDVDMovie factory isn't threaded for multicores, so that'll slow it down. IIRC, Corel also only does CBR, not VBR. That'll slow it down some too. I'd recommend tools better suited for AVCHD editing/rendering, such as Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas. The latest Canopus does a great job too.

The "chunky" piece of plastic is of no concern. It has little mass and isn't going anywhere if you biff. If you want to manually turn on the camera, then that's great too. The DPro will indicate you've properly turned on the camera. The Hypeye mini has other advantages, such as setting zoom on certain camera models, and allows you to play back from the button/switch, amongst other things. Either provide a solution; the question is which solution you personally prefer. I like having the button mounted flush on my helmets.

what kind of enclosure?

60.00?! Wow. I wasn't aware. I thought retail was 49.95. Shows how much I pay attention to the publisher I don't know what the Kindle price will be.

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The BMD certainly can. I'm not familiar with the other model. It claims the data rate, but I'm not sure that it'll sustain it. I have a BMD box, used on an NX5

There is a lot of truth to what you're saying. If you take the uncompressed 4:2:2 8 bit from the HDMI or SDI port on those cameras and run it into a Ninja or other portable recorder that can manage the stream, there is a massive difference between the HDV, AVC, AVCHD images, no doubt. However, it's still interlaced (since you brought it up, assuming you have an issue with it), and depending on the camera, you'd perhaps still have some imager issues. All that said, many broadcasters have been using Z7 out the uncompressed port and converting with Convergent Design Micro or similar. Now with the AJA Ki, CD Nano, or Atmos Ninja...there are options for around 2500.00 that provide monitoring as well. The glass makes a major difference, as does the offset, imager size, and DP, so it is a way to get a fixed lens camera cheap, and have it provide 4:2:2, 8bit uncompressed. Don't buy into the "10 bit off HDMI marketing hype; the last two bits are set to null, so it's still 8 bit (which is plenty fine for almost everything but the most intense grades)

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A coincidence, even as you were writing this, had a student here in the room explaining why she needed a GoPro, and why it should be on the front of her helmet, and how she was "going to learn more" by having it. She has 50 jumps and isn't able to stay with anyone yet. I asked her how she was going to learn, and she was told by someone that she could film others and figure out her body position by filming others. Her next counter was that "I'll own a camera and helmet and others can film me." Her last comment was "why are you such a pessimist about me wearing a camera?" The concept of safety didn't begin to register, even after seeing the small format incidents thread. I'm not a pessimist who doesn't want you to wear a camera. I'm a realist who doesn't want you to wear a cast or a casket. So, as we're watching a video of her last jump, suddenly she flies fast into view. "So-and-so just got a new camera and he ran into me."