For those of you with high bandwidth internet connections, Don Carter was kind enough to upload his HD content to RennTube for your consumption. The video is far too large [and high quality] to stream directly via flash, so you'll need to download the video directly to your local machine before you watch it.

!BE AWARE!, its 829MB of HD goodness. Be patient while downloading. Please download it only once. Bandwidth is expensive. 829MB x N_Users will certainly get the attention of the RennTube host.

He's also been kind enough to relocate the panoramic shots of the show floor to RennTube as well. Due to their wide format, they can also be found on the following link.

To download, right click and select "Save-As".

[Note: 829MB on a 6Mbps DSL connection requires ~45 minutes]

http://www.renntube.com/ocic/

 

Awesome. Thanks!

 

Thanks

 

Thanks to John and Renntube for hosting this video.

I didn't really focus much on videoing, didn't have a tripod with me and didn't have much time to spend on editing, but at least it gives you the feel of the event. This was my first time to edit in HD and I think I'm hooked but need to pick up some better software.

(at least with video we can enjoy Roger's lovely accent!)

 

Don, what platform/application did you use for editing?

 

Don, I got the DVD today, thank you very much.

 

Don, when you output the wmv why did you letterbox it? Seems a shame to have 720p 16:9 video and make a 4:3 product.

Bob

 

I used a HP desktop with a AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core 5000+ 2.6Ghz processor and 3GB of ram.

It came with CyberLink-Power Director which can edit HD video. I much prefer Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas but haven't bought a new enough version yet to do HD. Premiere is pricy, but Sony Vegas Movie maker now under $100, so I'll probably go with that. PowerDirector is a video editor for the masses which drives me nuts.

The video was mainly intended for DVD, so it ended up in a 4:3 format. Not great for an HD video file, and if I'd messed with it long enough I probably could have figured out how to make it 16:9, but this was somewhat of a rushed job, and I was still learning PowerDirector.

 

Nice, thanks.

 

Thanks Don! I could not be there... this is as close as it gets to being there!

 

I have a few versions of Adobe Premier laying around. I never took the time to really learn everything that it takes to become proficient with them. Once I get my big system back up and running, I'll have Discrete Flame and Smoke for doing heavy editing and composting. [SGI Onyx2 w/ 4pipe graphics, 2xRM's and digi boards]

I've been looking for a good video editing app for Linux... but I've been disappointed many times

 

Don, thats bad thinking from a video viewpoint. If you're shooting 16:9 then if you author your DVD as an anamorphic then viewers with a 16:9 TV will get the full resolution and the DVD player will convert to letterbox for 4:3 viewers, losing about 1/3 of the picture resolution. If you think DVD = 4:3 then all the viewers lose.

Bob

 

Bob,

Like I said, rushed project, unfamiliar software, but thanks for the tips...

 

John, can you translate? Does it have an x-pipe? "Discrete Flame and Smoke"?

 

Oops... I misspelled it... Discreet's Flame and Smoke applications are cinema quality editing programs. Given my day job, I have access to quite a bit of computing gear. I picked up a used SGI Onyx2 system that was previously used for capturing editing real time video streams (2K video at 60Hz). Discreet (now Autodesk) once used this as their flagship editing platform. They've since moved over to PC based hardware, but my Onyx has a few proprietary hardware bits that make certain editing actions neat and clean.

Smoke/Flame are pretty pricey though:
http://usa.autodesk.com/industries/media-entertainment