Recent flight captured on micro-camera

[Peter Kelly]

I am guessing that many of you would want to see this for a variety of reasons.

This video is.....

- part of the flight debrief from this past Saturday, April 16...
it clearly shows what a great day it was over Crazy Creek and Pope Valley.

- a follow up demo of the use of the micro camera I have mentioned before.
I now have a mount that is hands free and is flexible.

- an example of the flying that Jim and I do together.
Don't ever fly formation on another glider without prebriefing all aspects, and lots of agreements before hand.

- a demo of how easy it is to make a video these days.
I was impressed with the simplicity of the Windows Movie Maker program that came with windows 7.

See the link to this six minute video here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asNbT56e-jQ

[Larry Roberts]

Peter,
I am amazed at how nice the videos came out. Not bad editing either. What software did you use to edit your video - I am still trying out a couple programs to see what to spend money on.

[Peter Kelly]

Peter,
I am amazed at how nice the videos came out. Not bad editing either. What software did you use to edit your video - I am still trying out a couple programs to see what to spend money on.

I was as much impressed with the audio as well.

Didn't spend any money on progarms.
I just used what came with windows 7.
that is, 'windows live movie maker'
I saved the project as the default - '.wlmp' type file
wh/ I guess stands for '.windows live movie project'

When I was done with the editing i clicked on 'publish movie'
and selected 'you tube' in the next sub-menu.

then I waited 30 or 40 minutes for my slow speed dsl to upload it on to 'you tube'.

there you have it.

[Peter Kelly]

I'd love to test the applicability of the GoPro and the Contour HD in that same environment. I sure want to upgrade.

This next Saturday I should have more opportunity for another short video.

All three amigos will be in the air, so I should have either Jim of Key to use as a subject for the filiming - after we complete the race task.

any chance I could borrow a camera on saturday from either Larry-YE or Guy-DDS?

The only mounting I need is a piece of velcro (hook side) on the base of the camera. I have the loop side of the velcro mounted to my goose neck camera mount. I have extra velcro I can use, if that is ok.

[key dismukes]

Wow, great shooting! An aeronautical cinematographic auteur, not less. I want to see how your camera is mounted. See you all saturday.

key

[morhall]

Peter,

Nice work on the video. The GoPro is a great camera and I love most of what I get out of it. It is not good for air-to-air shots though. It is too wide angle and even at the close range that you're working I think you'd be disappointed with the results. The subject glider just looks like a gnat at anything more than about 100yds.

I don't know about the Contour. I think it is not quite so wide angle.

That said, I highly recommend the GoPro for all sorts of panoramic, cloud and scenery shots.

Morgan