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Keep bendin' them knees....
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Having both within arm's length right now, and having had both kinds of phones for quite a while (and a BB at the same time as earlier iPhones) I'd surely like to understand more about this statement. Have had multiple carriers, too. Now all phones are through Verizon. In other words, my opinion is based entirely on personal experience as someone who travels a lot, using two different phones in various regions, both same and different carriers.
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Vegas does a *very* credible job of slo-mo. But it's not Twixtor. Hold CTRL while dragging out an event. Right click and choose "Force resample" from the Switches menu. You can get very nice slo mo up to 40% of original speed to look pretty good. There are other tricks that may be employed, but that's the best one out of the box.
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What Phree said.... Boris Red, for example (another host) is 1K for the baseware. MBSuite, same price. Neither do slomo as well as Twixtor
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It is :) Well, there are 1.3 billion people in China alone, and while I won't claim to know what even one of them was doing when this aired, it seems somewhat improbable that 1 out of every 3 of them would be watching it. Possible though, I guess. How much of the supposed 500M was outside of China? Even if using the Gross Reach and GRP methods, it doesn't wash. It's probable that webpages are counting re-hits and loops, which is false feedback. FIFA was inflating. Kinda like the Olympics in Torino initially claiming 2B viewers where the verifiable was 87m (opening ceremonies). It's in marketing's best interest to claim the most inflated numbers they can possibly find (and good for our discipline too, IMO). 100m viewers worldwide? Easily accepted. And exceptionally impressive.
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Why not put a vertical stabilizer on a wing suit?
DSE replied to cocheese's topic in Wing Suit Flying
Why modify the suit at all? For 50.00, we could have strap on fins! Certainly worth playing with, but I'd hold my bet that any additional, vertical drag on the back end is only going to add to/instigate instability. I know that Yuri and Jarno are totally into strap-ons... These'll sell big! A new place to put skydiving stickers, too! -
Why not put a vertical stabilizer on a wing suit?
DSE replied to cocheese's topic in Wing Suit Flying
I'd be happy to try it, but nickels to nuggets, it would probably either: A-do nothing except induce drag B-induce greater instability due to constantly shifting position. Legs aren't like horizontal stabs where they're rigid, they're constantly moving, so the vertical "stabilizer" would be anything but stable. Remember the old XS wingsuits with the "winglets" made out of half a pancake turner? They didn't accomplish anything except looking goofy. Worth playing with tho. Flatspins are the order of the day at E right now anyway. -
Did they get the dispute over the trees worked out with the neighbors? That would be terrific!!
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Awesome...now..if they'll really sell you a V3 for 1200.00...Jump on that and make some cash reselling them. I can't even get one that cheap.
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went to the office and look what I found! (Ghost inside)
DSE replied to BenediktDE's topic in Wing Suit Flying
I hope you washed it after Costyn loved it. Nice colors! Can't miss that one in the sky!! -
Feb 17 - Feb 19 San Diego Hoping the BOD will break free to visit a few DZ's in the area.
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Had I been the one to pirate it, you'd be correct. However, the school has it. Perhaps they owned a copy that was once destroyed. Dunno. Was here before I started teaching here. You're invited to donate one to the school (or me) though!
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I think you're confusing the paralytic disease with Venus disease. Or was that the singer.
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Be sure you balance well in advance, with lens. Jumped it on two different helmets...with a 14L, it's a weird balance in your hand and head. Looks terrific tho Put a 3D duallie lens on it...it's awesome.
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It does.
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The biggest diff between the Sony and the Canon is that Sony is recording to 4:2:0 AVCHD, and yes...offers 4:4:4 to a Ninja or similar off-board device (which makes it nicer than anything remotely close to it in the price range). Canon records to MPG2, 4:2:2. AVCHD is more or less twice as efficient as MPEG 2 at high bitrates, and Canon can't access AVCHD, so it makes sense that they walked away from AVC for this camera and went with a better encode for the bit cost. It is indeed designed to compete with the F3 (not the FS100). Same price point, similar features. http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PMWF3L/ I have not shot any footage with the Canon outside of a trade room, and the test footage I received is pretty camera specific, so no way to compare. I've got a coupla hours behind the F3, and it's very impressive. IMO, these are what Scarlet wanted to be, but couldn't quite compete. We're doing a shootout in DC right after Thanksgiving; I'll have a better-informed opinion then.
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It's used a lot, and for low-cost slow motion, it can't be beat. It's overused a lot, and for the low-cost, can't be beat. :-) Great product, but a lot like a hit song on the radio. Overused, it becomes an annoyance.
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yeah, but we call him Leonardo. He works with Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael You guys gonna get him to finally come out of his shell?
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Spendy book, I have a Xerox copy of it. Belton's "Rear Window" is part of a course I teach on composition and narrative. He offers some great insights on film psychology, how/why the audience arrives at perceptions. Forgotten about Belton's widescreen book. Thanks for the reminder. Gonna pull it off the shelf.
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http://usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professional_cameras/cinema_eos_cameras/eos_c300 Saw this at Content Creation World, and just today got some test footage. For those that want RED but can't swing it, this is darn close for half the total. Around 16k for the camera body, PL or Canon lenses may be used. It's a pleasant surprise to see that Vegas11 reads the MP2 codec with no re-wrap.
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It is impossible to get solid, stable, sellable tandem vid without a chincup, IMO. A chincup allows for two solid points of tension that help the helmet stay stable. With only a strap, there aren't really any points of tension except your ears/head pushing out on the helmet.
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I saw one last weekend, made from a small plate of plastic with a pistol rail mounted to it, and the Contour mounted to the rail. I didn't get a photo of it, but the plastic was more or less flat, two slits in it for the chest strap to go through, beneath the rail. This was on a wingsuit rig. The plastic appeared to be ABS plastic cut out with a Dremel or similar. Monkey has a lot of experience with playing with plastic, he might be able to give some suggestions.
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Rodeo (several), motocross (several), one really bad one from climbing the side of a building, rollerblading, hit by cars twice on a motorcycle, hit a deer once on a motorcycle, and skydiving. Plus a couple broken bones doing stupid shit like once punching a wall in my youth. skydiving got my pelvis, hip, L1-5, sacrum, coccyx. Still have metal in my left elbow (rodeo) right ankle (rodeo) collarbones (motocross), pelvis (skydiving) Pelvis so messed up, they put a zipper in for easy access. [edit to add photo; someone PM'd me not believing the zipper. Note the broken screws...this happens frequently. Screws can never come out now. Some call this "tough." Others call it "stupid."
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Stolen Re-Programmed Cypress AADs May Fire Unexpectedly
DSE replied to PWScottIV's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
That ad isn't for Shorbs gear (remember, he's sponsored by Aerodyne), this is Mirage/PD . It just happens to be similar colors. There hasn't been a sentencing, hasn't been a hearing, and a plea hasn't been entered. The plea date was moved from November 8 to December 14. Note that the ad says "im getting out of sport due to health issues from military service that could leave me paralyzed. JSho+military? NFW. -
Because it's somewhat closer to the way the eye sees the world.