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Post by petefarrell360 » 04 May 2005 06:30 pm

foggyjames wrote:The area which needs more improvement is dipped. I've got a devious plan there, but it involves some serious expense, so I'll have to think about it long and hard.
You're right, dipped is now my main problem, as on main beam, it's like daylight, then suddenly it's a struggle to see when you dip the mainbeam, as though you're on sidelights nearly! Let me know how things go with that, as everything I can think of is either not worth doing due to expense or not easy for me to do.
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Post by Chris_C » 04 May 2005 07:04 pm

Lol, you see what I mean about dayvision (c) then Pete!!! I don't think the dipped is too bad, have you got good wiper blades on your lights?
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Post by special » 06 May 2005 12:07 am

just watched the vid wish i had been there sm16
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Post by mickt » 06 May 2005 05:49 am

Enjoyed the video those screen heater elements make a good pattern - in focus too!!!

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Post by redline » 06 May 2005 09:05 am

I wish you had been there to Stu , then I wouldnt have these bloody door cards in my shed LOL
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Post by Duvel78 » 06 May 2005 12:23 pm

VERY nice video, very very nice, good job Foggy! sm40

I like the moment with the Rover... :lol:

It must be on the video page but it's a wmv file... If you could reencode it as a mpeg file... (I could convert the wmv file directly but the quality will be a disaster!)
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Post by foggyjames » 06 May 2005 07:24 pm

Maybe when I've got some more time :-P

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Post by grizlyadams » 06 May 2005 08:19 pm

foggyjames wrote:Maybe when I've got some more time :-P

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Post by MJ » 10 May 2005 12:51 pm

Wouldn't a wmv be a smaller file size? I know when I've downloded clips of a few MB, the wmv ones seem to be a minute long or so, but mpegs of the same size only seem to be a 10 seconds long or so... :|

20 MB is a big enough file, wouldn't want to wait for a 100 MB. Not everyone has broadband ;)

I only just finished downloading the file yesterday, and it's a great vid, I wish I was at the meet as well :(

One comment though, I think the music was a bit loud compared to the video noise. I want to hear the Volvos :D Good timing between the action and the music though sm40

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Post by foggyjames » 10 May 2005 12:58 pm

An entirely fair point about the noise...but then you might hear Griz talking...we have health and safety to consider :)

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Post by MJ » 10 May 2005 01:06 pm

Good point :lol:

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Post by foggyjames » 10 May 2005 01:26 pm

Going back to codecs...no-one in their right mind would use original '.mpg' mpeg files today. The compression standards of choice are DivX, and increasingly Xvid, which are mpeg derived compression within what was originally an 'uncompressed' (although it always was compressed in some way) video format - to video as wave files are to sound. In other words, it's like making an mp3, but naming it a .wav file, and the player works out how to decode it by looking at the file itself, not the extention.

I was going to use Xvid, but Premiere was being cranky, and I didn't have time to fix it. Anyway, the WMV looks great for the file size.

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Post by grizlyadams » 10 May 2005 02:37 pm

foggyjames wrote:An entirely fair point about the noise...but then you might hear Griz talking...we have health and safety to consider :)

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dont you mean your heath and safety..... :wink:
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Post by jtbo » 10 May 2005 02:56 pm

foggyjames wrote:Going back to codecs...no-one in their right mind would use original '.mpg' mpeg files today. The compression standards of choice are DivX, and increasingly Xvid, which are mpeg derived compression within what was originally an 'uncompressed' (although it always was compressed in some way) video format - to video as wave files are to sound. In other words, it's like making an mp3, but naming it a .wav file, and the player works out how to decode it by looking at the file itself, not the extention.

I was going to use Xvid, but Premiere was being cranky, and I didn't have time to fix it. Anyway, the WMV looks great for the file size.

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I do it nowdays with virtualdub (v1.6.5 can read DV) and windows movie maker, I got enough from Premiere lately.

Before I did make a movie in uncompressed (Ok, DV-format is compressed someway) in premiere then I did compress it with VirtualDub as it works much better when compressing to XVID, Premiere was crashing too often.

Now with Virtual Dub just make sure you choose Audio to Full Processing and select compression to MP3 or OGG, depends what you wan't.
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I have video clip that is around 2min 23seconds, that will fit in 11MB with very good quality (means can't tell difference between compressed and uncomperssed) and size of 320x240.

What I would like to is that I would get video from camera in uncompressed form, but that is impossible, I think.
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Post by foggyjames » 10 May 2005 06:34 pm

I'll have to investigate that - thanks. I suspect that Premiere is complaining at a lack of memory, so smaller files (albeit not significantly so when displaying them) can only help with that.

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