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Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:45 pm
by Rick Brown
Bob Beamesderfer wrote:Doug Kott wrote:Doug Kott wrote:Schweeet!!! Just needs Benny Hill theme music to finish it off.
Thanks, Rick! "Yakety Sax" is the tune.
I had a coworker who had it as a ring tone. I wonder what ever happened to him. }:) }:) }:)
Chasing (or being chased by) well endowed women all the time?
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:06 pm
by Mike Kazmierczak
Rick Brown wrote:Doug Kott wrote:Schweeet!!! Just needs Benny Hill theme music to finish it off.
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It flows pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnWQ4_0XsKY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:22 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:48 pm
by Arthur Grant
Mako Koiwai wrote:As usual, somewhat off topic, but here are the first results of an experiment ... doing a GoPro Time Lapse as we walked the Divisional Course on Saturday late afternoon. 2 Frames Per Second. Nick Bjoin then tweaked it so that the time equaled a lap time. It's quite wiggly. Next he's going to see if he can run it through some video stabilization software to smooth it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYTl5UKDnc
Actually if your one of those people that go around the course on a bike or scooter, you could do the same using the gopro on the handlebar mount, but isn't that somewhat like preruning the course?
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:53 pm
by Arthur Grant
My favorite so far is the guy how prints out a copy of hte runways from google maps sat images, and draws the course on that.
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:16 am
by John Stimson
That's how I design my courses!
http://www.idsfa.net/autox/Courses/2007 ... 4_768.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:36 am
by Steve Ekstrand
Mako Koiwai wrote:As usual, somewhat off topic, but here are the first results of an experiment ... doing a GoPro Time Lapse as we walked the Divisional Course on Saturday late afternoon. 2 Frames Per Second. Nick Bjoin then tweaked it so that the time equaled a lap time. It's quite wiggly. Next he's going to see if he can run it through some video stabilization software to smooth it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYTl5UKDnc
Next time put the gopro on something with wheels (stoller, bike, wagon....) and push it around the course.
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:08 am
by Mako Koiwai
Now that's starting to smack on Unsportsmanlike ... not that it would make me any faster ... and my photo package buyers would expect a copy.
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:15 am
by Mako Koiwai
So here is how one could do a "perfect" time lapse/stop motion Course Walk ... see the Making Of vid after the main event:
http://www.petapixel.com/2010/07/23/rem ... s-america/
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:22 am
by Mako Koiwai
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:51 pm
by John Stimson
Mako Koiwai wrote:Not bad John ... looks a little "flat" ... just kidding ...
Yeah, well the capability to do topography certainly would help when designing courses at Candlestick!
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:41 pm
by Mako Koiwai
What we really need is
3D AX video's ... to get that sense of depth. A colleague has created this Quad 3D rig using ContourHD cameras ... that allows him to shoot the same scene wide and tight at the same time using different sets of lenses:
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:04 pm
by Mako Koiwai
We need a permanent "sticky" Foto Funnies thread so I don't have to keep hijacking other threads!
Since when has Jason U taken up golf? Seen here coaching Robert E.
Photo and joke courtesy of SteveE
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:22 am
by Will Kalman
Mako Koiwai wrote:Since when has Jason U taken up golf? Seen here coaching Robert E.
Photo and joke courtesy of SteveE
LOL
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:21 pm
by Steve Ekstrand
I told the kid he was the doppelganger for a friend of mine... No reaction... Then I told him Jason was a big deal in the video game industry. Instant interest.
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:43 pm
by Greg Peng
Mako Koiwai wrote:What we really need is
3D AX video's ... to get that sense of depth. A colleague has created this Quad 3D rig using ContourHD cameras ... that allows him to shoot the same scene wide and tight at the same time using different sets of lenses:
Can you ask your colleague what he does about wind noise with the ContourHD cameras? I used my new one at the last event and the wind noise was HORRIBLE. I'm thinking of returning it for that reason alone.
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:59 pm
by Mako Koiwai
That's why I choose the GoPro HD Hero ... but in fact it's sound has been terrible also, while Henry's ContourHD IN A Bunny Suit has the best AX sound I've ever heard ... perfect tire and engine sounds and nothing else. I've got to get me a little vermin that I can skin and stuff with our GoPro.
Jon's is not furry enough to be effective in cutting down wind noise:
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:02 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Typically on my friends pro shoots sound would be recorded separately ... different union. ;)
But Henry's set-up proves you can go the non-union route.
(private joke between Henry and I)
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:21 pm
by Jonathan Lugod
it cut it down pretty significantly from all my previous attempts! even an external mic wasn't effective
Re: Course Maps Please
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:47 am
by Bob Beamesderfer
Most of the quality issues I've heard with audio have to do with overmodulation, ie, the volume overwhelms the recording amp. Some kind of electrical attenuator, what used to be called a pad, would help. Maybe -20db.
