powerlord Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) Here's a video of a flight I made in Lanarkshire last week in scotland. I'm taking off from a little village called Kilncadzow where my parents live and I grew up. You then see me flying over New Lanark (a world heritage model town built in 1785), before flying over Lee Castle, then doing a fly over of the village for the locals - look closely was some waving people. Taking off was a bit tricky, involving running with my knees up to get my feet clear of 14" of snow with every step. It was interesting after landing to look at my footsteps getting further and further apart as I accelerated for take off. [youtubevideo] [/youtubevideo]It was shot on my goPro HD at setting r3 (1280x960) 4:3 for the vertical FoV, and then squished to 16:9 as I think it works well with the very wide fov and fish eye. I did try a semi-unfished version, but the effect of pushing mid distance objects further away detracts from the effect I think, so I have stuck with this version. The audio levels were a bit better on that one though, but I'd uploaded it by then, so tough. I will take some stills from both version later and post them, so you can see more clearly what de-fishing does - basically thing of projecting a picture on the back of a spoon (fish eye), projecting on front of spoon (defish). This was the first video I've taken with the goPro, so a bit of an experiment as much as anything. I also wanted to find the best settings for the gopro, but also for youtube, and also find youtube's limitations regarding mac codec. GoPro wise - a variable bit rate H264 encode, 2 pass, average 4MB, peak 10MB seems to maintain the full quality of the 16MB goPro native video. You can see this 'master' edit (i.e. same as on youtube but proper higher quality as you get out of the gopro) here (direct download - no mucking with entering codes, etc) : http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2010 ... now720.mp4 You'll notice differences with YouTube in areas where colour variation is small - youtube will introduce banding and blocking across areas like the sky. And also where there is massive amounts of detail, such as taking of and landing with all the details in the snow - this becomes blocky and blurry on youtube, but maintains its definition on my upload. YouTube footage still looks decent, but basically YouTube re-encodes to Constant Bit rate 2.5MB - so resultant file on youtube ends up being half the size of mine. Finally, if you want to see some defished footage it is only in master edit here: http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2010 ... ow720b.mp4 - there is a bug in the edit with a bit duplicated, but I have left it uploaded for folk to look at the defish. You will see I've only partially defished - more than that and I'd start to lose significant details from the sides and top, AND the centre of the frame would be reduced even more, losing too much detail. I think the defish does make it a bit less goldfish bowl like, but in the end I stuck with the original one I updated to YouTube. I don't want to put the other one on youtube, there ain't much point. comments (and ratings!) welcome! stu Edited January 11, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outkast Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 really enjoyed that mate, thanks for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Nice, you could see where the stills came from. My hilltop flying site in the borders was just impossible to get to over Christmas so I was gutted not to get any snow pics which is a shame cos the MOD stopped flying there during that week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey-dad Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Here's a video of a flight I made in Lanarkshire last week in scotland....comments (and ratings!) welcome! stu Cracking video Stu !Very impressive picture quality even with Youtube codec. Particularly surprised with the auto white balance performance, as snow sky and bright conditions can often confuse small video cameras. Love your production company name as well - some of the locals must have thought that when they saw you flying overhead in such cold conditions... Anyway thanks for sharing, and please post any further experiments you make with your new goPro HD. Happy flying ! Cheers, Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 Here's a video of a flight I made in Lanarkshire last week in scotland.Love your production company name as well - some of the locals must have thought that when they saw you flying overhead in such cold conditions... Cheers, Andy Funny enough the bloke down the road is ex-military, now police firearms. He had 2 mates up visiting - both ex-SAS. Apparently they both professed that they thought I was 'f*cking mental" which I take as a compliment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey-dad Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Funny enough the bloke down the road is ex-military, now police firearms. He had 2 mates up visiting - both ex-SAS. Apparently they both professed that they thought I was 'f*cking mental"which I take as a compliment That's awesome Stu !Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Funny enough the bloke down the road is ex-military, now police firearms. He had 2 mates up visiting - both ex-SAS. Apparently they both professed that they thought I was 'f*cking mental" which I take as a compliment Do so! lol Great vid, I am loving the quality of the go Pro HD!! For sale, non HD Go Pro 'offers' SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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