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If Roxio is ENCODING the avi to an MPEG format, then it can be used as a DVD on a standard player, that's so. Roxio may also be used to record an AVI file to a DVD as a data file. You don't want a data file.

What format is the music? Is it wmv? MP3? OGG? aif? What is the sampling rate? Any or all of these *can* affect your render if your processor needs to decode the format during render. BTW, you can't use DV-AVI for DVD playback. DVD as a media standard format is exclusively MPEG, whether it's MPEG 1, 2, or 4.

Screw the testing, designing....parts alone on small scale, plus the code, would cost double the retail price on a mass scale. Monstrously more if you were building small scale. Heck, we build a small USB box using fairly standard parts with one small industry standard ROM, and it's not terribly profitable at 30 points over cost when you consider the cost of the programming alone, without the design and mold. Toss in small sales numbers, it's a tough market. I'd submit the professional video market offers more users than the skydiving market. Trunk, your product was very impressive at the Xtreme Sports show. Maybe you're not aware with a touch of heat shrink and silicone, the Hypeye can be used in an underwater housing for kayaking, etc?

LANC control only found on Sony and Canon products, add to that the solid nature of *most* of the Sony camcorders, the ability to get the cams repaired quickly in the event that you need it, etc, and the quality of image (Sony makes imagers for easily 50% of the camcorder industry) and Sony becomes a semi-defacto choice if you want remote control and solid/trustworthy workflow. Plus, several companies make housings for Sony, but not for other products.

I'm not updating every 2-3 days, "1" jump was easier. You'll like XP, methinks. Win2K was great for what it was, but there was a reason MS grew it into XP.

you might find this link of value, you might not. But it's a fairly clear description of what you may and may not do. PhreeZone sums it up quite nicely, however. I bought a boogie DVD from Ebay the other day, and the entire DVD is ripped songs. I feel very badly for the guy that produced it if he gets caught. Copyright violation is now a criminal and civil act, and charged by the illegal copy, not by the act itself. Doesn't matter if money changes hands or not. If you make a boogie vid and give it out to 10 people, that's 10 potential violations with the criminal minimum of 2500.00 per violation, plus any civil penalties that may apply. All that said, no one has ever been prosecuted for using pirated music in a skydiving video, I'd be very aware if that had happened. In the wedding world, this sort of violation is very common, and the RIAA and labels they represent are only now starting to address it. However these days, music contains metadata that is quite easily trackable, where in the past it wasn't. Just keep in mind how you'd feel if portions of your skydiving video showed up in someone else' boogie reel without your knowledge/permission.

Just for sake of conversation, you are aware that downloading from Limewire is piracy; And that if you do vids for your DZ using pirated music, you put them at risk of lawsuit? That said, search the fora, you'll find

It may be that the LiteOn unit doesn't ascribe to the OHCI license, and therefore W2K won't see it. What I'd recommend in the mean time, is to: Plug in cam as firewire device. use analog cables from cam to LiteOn's analog inputs I'm assuming your cam offers pass-thru, most do. WinXP may or may not resolve the issue, but it does have DVHS drivers that don't require OHCI compatibility like W2K does.

I'm using XP, I do know that W2K has firewire issues, but I don't think this is the problem. Can you specify what's giving you grief specifically? It may be that your deck doesn't offer dig to MPEG encoding via firewire as well.

For me, it comes in to not what's in fashion, but what I'm used to. I don't like digital watches, and I don't like digital altimeters. So, I was tickled to death when my Altitrack came. I love it. Maybe I'm old-fashioned too, because wear a plain ole' Timex on my wrist, and yet use a computer calibrated shotclock for my work time.

Yup. If you want to PM me with details, happy to help, or happy to help here. Hopefully you're using a 1349 card output to a converter, feeding the VHS/DVD deck with the converted D to A signal? Using the Tools/Print timeline to Videotape option?

I would say with Willard J. Stokes it is possible.

Sony Vegas (either professional or consumer version), Canopus Edius, Avid Express HD, Ulead Media Studio will all do this. Any software that can invert a field and allow you to offset a stream by half a frame will do it. I use Sony Vegas and Avid for most of my work. Vegas has a unique resampling feature that's similar to much more high end compositing tools, and it makes for ultra smooth slo mo.

Blending the two as I've indicated above, is similar to a crude deinterlacing technique that works very well for slow mo. You are correct, of course, you need to maintain the LFF format of DV on output if that's what your acquisition was. Blending field order during editing isn't integral to the output format, unless your NLE forces LFF even when you specify UFF. If you converted only one instance of the vid to UFF only, you'd have horizontal artifacting on final render.

Two cheap methods of slow motion: 1. Create two lines of the same vid, zoom in deep and offset one by half a frame. Some NLE's won't allow for this, but most will. Switch field order of top track to "upper" and be sure field of lower track is set to "lower"" (default by nature of DV) Slow track to desired speed. Set opacity/transparency of upper track to 50%. Slow bottom track to desired speed. Render. or, use Sony Vegas Movie Studio/Sony Vegas Professional, being sure "resample" is turned on. It does a great job of smooth slow mo down to about 20%. 39.00 with rebates for VMS at a lot of stores I've seen, they have a free demo. In-camera slow-mo is pretty poor, due to the way the frames are read, so you'll need good software.

FWIW, our DZ and a couple others I've been at, have a rule about fun jumpers not talking to AFF students, simply for reasons of keeping the student focused on their jump. Instructors and AFF students are a team. Fun jumpers aren't part of that team. The "secret" handshakes, etc are for fun jumpers and perhaps tandem masters, not AFF students. They've got enough on their minds without worrying about "trying to be one of the guys" or worrying about whether you're serious with stupid jokes, IMO.

We just had a person attempt 100 jumps in daylight hours, and even exiting at 2.2k, the 182 wasn't beating him down, so he kept waiting for the aircraft. You'd need several packers, two aircraft, and a lot of rigs to pull off a triple digit jump number, IMO. Figure your fuel cost, pilot cost, rig rental if it's not donated, some food for the support crew, and that's your nut for the charity event. Anything you can make past that point goes to the charity, if I'm understanding your question? So, you get XXX people to donate XXX$ say, per jump past XXX jumps, spend a lot of time on the phone with news media, press releases, etc, and get as much attention for your event and the charity as possible. The charity likely should be working hard to get you donations for your "jump-a-thon."

Beware grey market sellers. They repackage products and sell the camera, manual, batteries, cables, etc as separate items. I don't know Butterfly specifically, but there are a lot of them out there. Butterfly is listed in one of these pages. Brooklyn, NY: http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/ Manhattan, NY: http://donwiss.com/pictures/ManhattanStores/ Other Locations: http://donwiss.com/pictures/OtherStores/

Is the Velbon made of plastic or metal?

Sanyo offers a proprietary lens for the cam, and as I've mentioned before, the output of the HD1 is pretty good on SD, but terrible on 720, and atrocious on 1080 displays

I've seen something like what you describe in the PD 150 cams, and in those, it's related to the ribbon connector that connects the screen to the camcorder. They wear out from a lot of opening/closing. Dunno if this is the same thing...

I use the Manfrotto version of this plate because it's universal to tripods as well, and for motor mounts, suction mounts, etc. It's longer than a goldmember,narrower than a goldmember, has 3 locking points vs 1, The actual plate assembly is marginally taller than the goldmember by approximately 1/16, if that. The locking lever could be a hazard in some situations, I guess, you could easily reverse it and drill a small recess in the other side to have the curl be on the "up" side rather than the "down" side, and then snag/strike is no more and probably less a possibility of snag than the goldmember locking pin head. Maybe Joe Jennings or Norman Kent can offer some input, but this mount/plate is fairly standard in the production world, which is my main reason for using it. Additionally, it offers 2 points of contact/mount on the camcorder vs one as most have. Looking at the photo, the Giottos version is shorter, and has a small protrusion that the Manfrotto version doesn't have (they're the same company) so apparently there are various models. The3273 is the base, and there are three lengths of plate that fit it. Dunno if that helps...

yes, you can record a DVD player instead of a VCR, unless: 1. you're in the UK (some cameras won't pass the full signal) 2. the DV cam has a Macrovision sniff. In those two events, the cam won't pass the information.

Weird, my TRV25 worked just fine as a pass-through (from a digital8 s-video to my laptop firewire) with tape still in it So long as the transport isn't engaged, I've never heard of tape making a difference in any DV product, but events more strange have happened...

This is a nice camcorder, light-weight, but as suspected, no good for skydiving. Jumped with it, it did well in terms of image quality, and the DVD isn't an issue. What is an issue to a limited extent, is the weight and size. Might as well jump an HC1/A1U. Next issue is length of time to finalize. I don't know that I'd want to jump this over and over again either. The image is good, DVD actually is heavily buffered, so it should manage just fine, but my initial response is that it will not stay strong over time. NDA prevents me from posting streams right now, but as soon as it's cleared, I'll post. These cams don't start shipping until Sept 25th. The AVC-HD codec is pretty good, but it's not HDV in terms of quality. I've had a full week in odd shooting scenarios with this cam, and it's impressive for the bang for buck, but don't hold your breath for this cam as far as skydiving is concerned.