Snapping footage

Anyone have any good footage of flyers being snapped. None of my friends have any idea what I get so excited about. I tried to look around on Dave's (Rideman) site, but I couldn't find the footage that I thought was there before.

Apparently you simply don't know where to look. :)

Try looking here.

Old content on my site doesn't usually go away, but sometimes it falls off of the front page menus.

(If anybody has suggestions for ways I should re-do my site, let me know! Bear in mind, there is no back-end database.)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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RideMan said:
(If anybody has suggestions for ways I should re-do my site, let me know! Bear in mind, there is no back-end database.)

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May I respectfully suggest re-encoding the flyers video with a more common Quicktime codec that Windows users don't have to scour the internet for? I've been trying to watch that video for a looooong time.

I too am having trouble getting the video to play correctly and I downloaded the codec listed on the site.

Hmmm...I need to check...I thought I re-encoded that with the newer version of that codec, which IS compatible with Apple's MPEG-4 codec built into QuickTime-6, though I might not have updated the info on that page.

I wonder if I still have that footage in the computer, or if I need to reload it.......

I'll have a look tonight when I get home. I'll announce here when I know it's plain QT-6 compatible.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

.. damn Windows users right Dave??

Worked on mine (XP) first try...

I dont see the point in using a codec people have to download seperately for a 320X240 digi cam video. But, whatever floats your boat.

I still dont get that ride, nor do I get DDR either. That could explain a lot. j/k.

It's working for me now. It didn't work yesterday when I tried to watch it (before and after) I downloaded the plug in.

Heck, I'm using Mac OSX and still had to download the codec for Quicktime. Not sure why he continues to make this difficult....Oh well....

Come on guys, it's all DivX these days.
[/Fletch mode]

I couldn't get the video to work the last time the big snapping thread came up a few months ago. I'll try again.

Just go here, http://www.3ivx.com/download/ install it and download the video somewhere to your hard drive. It should work then.

No, the problem is the age of the footage (2001). Back when I did that, it was all about DivX, but there was no DivX codec available for OS-X. There WAS a 3IVX codec, which I used, which is MPEG-4, and which the DivX codec should be able to interpret (because, after all, 3IVX and DivX are both MPEG-4). Then Apple finally released QuickTime 6, and I bought QT-Pro, which gave me Apple's MPEG-4 codec.

The later clips (notably the Dragster video) are also 3IVX, but a later version of the codec which identifies itself correctly so that QuickTime 6 can play it natively. Or, use QuickTime 4 and a 3IVX or DivX codec.

Again, I thought I had re-encoded that footage with the later, more-compliant codec. If it turns out I didn't, I'll re-encode it so that QT-6 can play it without any more jumping through hoops. Once I do that, I'll announce it here and re-write the text on that page accordingly. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(Hey, at least I didn't use that WMV crap...!)

http://www.pkicentral.com/Parkinfo/video/flyers_small.wmv

there is a video, still working on the final video.

Dane...16.2Mb and you call that "small"?! Okay, so you don't have the compression artifacts that I've got, but mine is only 5Mb! :)

(Dane's video is good, but beware if you have a slow connection! It's WMV, but it's one of those rare WMV clips that actually plays in Windows Media Player 9 for OS-X. It's a few seconds longer than mine, also a bit cleaner looking, as I would hope for that bitrate!)

I've re-encoded the video on my site (the original DV version WAS still loaded into my computer!) with a modern codec. If you have QuickTime 6, you can watch it. No more jumping through hoops, downloading special codecs, or any of that CRAP.

Thanks for the heads-up on the un-updated video!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

That, my friends, was some good snapping. Still nothing compared to some of the cycles I've seen, though- especially at Knobels.

Snapping video works fine, Dave. Thanks. It's hard to believe the Flyers ("RIP"...sort of) have held up to that type of flying for so long.

*** Edited 10/22/2004 1:51:02 PM UTC by Raptor Pilot***

Was I in that video, Dave? I couldn't tell for certain.

I'm on one of them newfangled Macs and it still worked! Imagine....

Dave, I hope you keep that vid. up for eternity. Great footage.

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Arrow Guy said:
I'm on one of them newfangled Macs and it still worked! Imagine....

Dave, I hope you keep that vid. up for eternity. Great footage.

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You can always save the vid to the hard drive to watch at your leisure anytime you want. I just hope the folks at Carowinds don't watch it. I can see the "no snapping" signs now....