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#wtrip10 all the main driving videos

Me — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:11:21 +0000

Here are all the driving videos from my road trip to Adelaide and back. ( I lost a bit of video from Apollo Bay, through to the 12 Apostles due to my R2H playing up…)

These are just the low res versions, watch on youtube or choose HD for the better views…

Great Ocean Road – Geelong to Apollo Bay (Dur 3:45)

Detailed Blog Post

Warrnambool to Kingston SE (Dur 4:38)

Detailed Blog Post

Kingston SE to Adelaide (Dur 4:11)

Detailed Blog Post

Old Coorong Road (Dur 2:25) (This is a subset of the above video)

Detailed Blog Post

Adelaide to Melbourne (Dur 7:02)

Detailed Blog Post

Kingston SE to Adelaide Video for #wtrip10

Me — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:48:31 +0000

The Video

(this is HD Video… best watched full screen, or just choose the 480 version from the video controls )

The Route: 350km Approx

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The Drive from Warrnambool to Kingston SE #wtrip10

Me — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:27:18 +0000

The Video

(this is HD Video… best watched full screen, or just choose the 480 version from the video controls )

The Route – Approx: 416 km

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Quick Drive Video up the Old Corrong Road

Me — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:58:14 +0000

The Video

The Route
41.3 km – about 1 hour 39 mins

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Great Ocean Road in 2 Min 25 – HD Version

Me — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:20:07 +0000

Finally got to do a HD Video of the Great Ocean Road….

Note to self: Never do the Great Ocean Road on the weekend or in Summer, people are idiots and drive slowly and never use turn outbays ever.

(this is HD Video… best watched full screen, or just choose the 480 version from the video controls )

The Route:

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The Drive Adelaide to Melbourne in 7 Min

Me — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:15:17 +0000

First video from #wtrip10…. the one day drive from Adelaide to Melbourne.

Video from a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, attached to an Asus R2H and a Seagate 880 USB HD. Video captured at 5fps 720p quality. Then speed up in Windows Live Movie Maker Beta.

(this is HD Video… best watched full screen, or just choose the 480 version from the video controls )

The Route

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Yeah mini road trip time….

Me — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:23:06 +0000

Just to Adelaide and back… but I’m going to take 3 days to get there… one day home… Might even drop in and see the Pandas whilst I’m over.

looking around mid July for this… Why 3 days.. cause I can stop and take photos along the way… and by photos I mean a lot of them. Winter along the coast is always a great time of year to see this neck of the woods and both the car and I could do with a bit of a head clearing as well.

Day 1 – Melbourne to Warrnambool ( 360 KM )

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Day 2 – Warrnambool to Kingston SE ( 386 KM )

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Day 3 – Kingston SE to Adelaide ( 295 KM )

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Adelaide to Home 727 km
Total Trip 1,774 km

plus gives me chance to reshoot this video as welll

Video Comparrison for #telstradesire

Me — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:16:06 +0000

Kind of sad when you think… I’ll just go up the road on my holiday to make a video to test out my HTC Desire for its video making abilities to realise that you had on you 4 different devices capable of making HD (or near HD) video… I was annoyed I forgot to take my wife’s phone so then I could have made 5 videos …. ah well… 4 will just have to do.

All of these sample Videos are on default settings for recording only, where I walked part way up the Elizabeth St Mall in Hobart repeating the same walk 4 times (yes I did get some looks )

Devices used were a Nikon D90, a HTC-Desire, a Nokia n95-8gb and a JVC GC-FM1 PICSIO

Output formats and files Sizes

Device	Native Format	File Size	Frame Size	FPS	Audio
Nikon D90	avi	112mb	1280×720	24FPS	176kbps-mono-11kHz
HTC-Desire	3pg	7.46mb	640×480	26FPS	12kbps
Nokia n95-8gb	mp4	15mb	640×480	27FPS	96kbps-mono-48kHz
JVC GC-FM1 PICSIO	mov	57.8mb	1440×1080	29FPS	130kbps-Stereo-48kHz

D90 Video

HTC Desire Video

JVC GC-FM1 PICSIO Video

Nokia N95-8gb Video

Now one thing I did try was to upload these videos via the YouTube app on my phone as a way of testing upload speeds… guess what… you are not allowed. The YouTube App says no you have to upload large files via wifi only. I really can’t begin to describe how wrong that is. What if you don’t have wifi, what if you are on the road in the middle of no-where taking photos and have 3g coverage (like this shot). I’ve had Telstra 3g coverage in some amazing areas.. but certainly no wifi… so how do I upload video?

What happens when someone sees something amazing or even breaking news and wants to upload it… well they can’t. If this is going to be a true social device that has to change and change fast.

Open Letter to NineMSN

Me — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:32:17 +0000

(update after the comment below and a discussion with @prawn_gravies NineMSN have now updated the story to include a link to the original content. Good to see they are listening… )

Here is how the internet works…

Someone creates funny and unique content, it may be a mashup of your content for example. They will upload it to say Youtube…

Then what happens is that people link to it.

They do not do the following..

Pull the video from Youtube, wrap it in their own branded player… then write a story about how said video went “VIRAL” and then not put a link to the original content, nor mention the creator of the original content.

I am looking at you Henri Paget in particular as your name is on the by-line!

Of course if you like we can just pull your content and claim it as our own if you like?

The NineMSN version of the story…. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1039487/vicious-dog-man-basks-in-barking-glory

And the source video… by djhippster

so ninemsn… google attribution and see what it means…

here I have done it for you..

Definitions of attribution on the Web:

“In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives information”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_(journalism)

3000K of Australia in under 7min

Me — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:01:59 +0000

This is the main part of my trip compressed down to just over 7 min of video.

Of course like all tech there were some issues, namely the HD died on the way to Canberra taking with it the video from Newcastle to Canberra and also meaning I could not get the Canberra to Melbourne video as well.

However this still covers over 3000k of Australia from Melbourne to outback NSW to West Queensland then down the Pacific Highway to Newcastle.

I recorded each days video or approx 500k of compressed video then ran all those subvideos to make this master file.

Enjoy the changing landscape of this amazing country.

The video was all recorded at 10FPS onto my WD 320 HD as avi’s from a logtech 3000 webcam recording into virtualdub. At the end of each day the video was compressed using Windows Movie Maker on a Hp Mini Note running Vista, then all the subvideos were compressed again, using the good old speed up double till the movie was below the 10min mark. Nothing more complicated than that.

Yes I am in the video at approx 2:45 when I got out to photograph a lizard on the road.

The Approx Route:

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This image was taken at 4min 22 in the video.

(The Car Computer… set up)