Synchro Pair...

[petermcleland]

I've been working this stunt up for a few days...A Red and a Blue Waco fly a synchonised display at McLeland Field. I could have left the Traffic off but it is more interesting with all the action:-


Bealine 208 rushes past...

A very complete full sequence can be seen by licking this address:-

http://forum.fsscreenshots.com/dcboard. ... =full&page

Thank you for looking :flying:

[airboatr]

Hi Peter
a very nice setup to fly around in one of the best ones I've seen
nice series of sreenies

Joe

[petermcleland]

Thanks Joe...The next set of emails in the course, will add all the Traffic you see there to the bare scenery you now have.

Also, I'm hoping that when you get the Waco package you will practice the Red part (I'll send you a recording so that you can practice). Then we could try the Synchro Pair on-line with you flying Red and me Blue

[airboatr]

me ... the red one?
ohh that one spits Fire....

Joe

Ps
working on dl'ing that Peter, hopefully today.

[petermcleland]

The Red one is just great to fly and needs to be the leader as the Blue one has very slightly more power and number two needs that to catch up in places round the routine...BTW I'm finding Teamspeak a load of "Gobbledegook"...can you understand it? Might have to revert to Skype! :flying:

[airboatr]

working it out myself Peter , but I think I'm getting it....

[petermcleland]

I needed to experiment today on what sort of output I could produce for streaming video...Rather than use my main video clips for the Syncro Pair I thought I would just make a simple new video and make several outputs of it to see which suited best.

There is an Eskimo girl who stands on the Beach Hut balcony at my base and I imagined that she had just bought herself a Digicam and tried it out for the first time when the pair were practicing the other day. To simulate this I had to use "Walk and Follow" to set up a place to film from, on that balcony...Then I ran both Recordings and got busy taking shots...Like her, it took me a while to find the Zoom control (turned out to be the Mouse Wheel) and never did discover the Mouse Panning till too late. So the little video is a joke really, but pretty close as it happens to the sort of thing she might have produced with a first go on her camera.

The experiment served its purpose and enabled me to choose the best output for a streaming video suitable for Broadband viewing. I publish it here in the hope that I will get a little feedback about the initial buffering. It is only 4 and a bit minutes long so please could you try it and let me know how long it buffers for, before playing and whether or not it needs to buffer again on your setup (Broadband only please).

Ignore the jokey long distance content of the Video but comment on its clarity and sound. The video is not edited but just as she took it (there is a speaker on Tower Frequency on the balcony but she took no notice of that when deciding to let go or start the trigger, so she clips the ends off some R/T transmissions).

The real video has 33 minutes of close in and personal stuff which needs to be clipped, shuffled and edited down to 10 minutes, but I intend to output it in this same format if it works as expected :flying:

The video plays in Windows Media Player and you just click here to play it:-

http://www.petermcleland.com/video/ENell720.wmv

[airboatr]

hello Peter

the video loaded pretty quick , about 1 minute before it startd to play. and the quaility is much beter than youtube and other
online video sharing websites. and it played smoothly. btw,Is that Fraps your capturing the video in?

also your snow covered trees look more natural , mine shimmer a little , perhaps I have a bad
value in my fs9 cfg.

looking good over all , looking forward to some close ups.

Joe

[petermcleland]

Thanks Joe,

That sounds fine, The shimmering trees are helped by going Views > Options and UNticking "Gradual Transitions".

So about a minute to buffer and then no further buffering later on?

Yes, I've been working on the close up stuff all the afternoon and got the knack of not clipping any R/T transmissions...I'm also working on using the R/T transmissions as places to swap from one view point to another. i.e. where the call "American Six hold position. Traffic is a Hawker Aitch Ess Seven Four Eight on the runway" appears in the clips from the Red recording and the Blue recording I can move the Blue into the Red and delete that bit of Red...And so on, so that eventually I have the whole sequence just once instead of three times (Red, Blue and Tower). With the possible exception of the exception of the actual runway pass, which I'll probably have from Red AND Blue. It is an intricate but interesting business and I'm rather enjoying it :flying:

Edit...Yes I forgot...I'm capturing with Fraps (massive files) and then doing everything else in the way of editing and video and DVD making with Ulead Video Studio 11. The Fraps captures can be dragged and dropped straight into the VideoStudio Editor.

[airboatr]

Hi Peter

no , the video didn't have to reload at any time after it started playing.
and pretty clear as videos from recording FS9 go
you got a good compression with your technique ,

Joe