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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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
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 )
Day 2 – Warrnambool to Kingston SE ( 386 KM )
Day 3 – Kingston SE to Adelaide ( 295 KM )
Adelaide to Home 727 km
Total Trip 1,774 km
plus gives me chance to reshoot this video as welll
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
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.
(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)
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)
Been home a week now and busy sorting out KML/GPX Files, dealing with photos and putting all the camping gear away.
So here are some of the facts and figures from the trip
Photos: 5000+ (including family Xmas day ones)
I will put together the driving videos and the KML files when I have finished cleaning them up. Most of the KML files are a lot larger than they need to be as I would leave the N95 running whilst I stopped to take photos and wandered around.
The rest of images I uploaded to Flickr are in my #Wtrip09 Set
Another little video from the D90, this time 40secs of the model trains at Australian Model Railways Association (Vic Branch) show. You will see the banding in this shot as well, this is one of the big problems with the D90 and video called rolling shutter.
(Updated Post: with 2min video – this is the same display as the photo below)
Longer Video
Short Video (41 Seconds)
And my fav shot from the day… a real miniature… not a tiltshift
Taken at the 39th Australian Model Railway Association Vic Branch Display. Model Railway exhibition
Aust-n-Rail "Thomspon River Canyon" Display
This was shot using my 55-200mm VR Kit lens that I got when I purchased the D90.
Well until the other day that is… See I brought the camera to do still photography… that is what I wanted and that is why I brought the D90… not for the video function.
Now lots of people have written about the Video function and its benefits and draw backs and seeing as I have used this feature all of 3 times in the last 6 months I will leave them to talk about it.
But here you are… 33 Seconds of 720P Video from Puffing Billy shot on a Nikon D90 with a Tokina 11-16mm lens.
click here to watch in HD stand alone
The following video is in HD.
Driving video from the weekend trip to Lake Mountain.
This is the drive home… this time coming via the back road via Warburton through Yarra Junction. (Where the police pull me over… his question… what was the thing on the windscreen in my car. The R2H setup I have didn’t look like a GPS. Poor officer he asked me what it was… didn’t take long for his eyes to glaze over and for him to let me on my way . (The standard clip format… R2H video via a webcam under the passengers front visor)
And don’t say I didn’t warn you about the road. It has the advantage of little or no traffic and is a fun drive and is about the same time and distance as the Black Spur trip as well.
(And the KML)
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And the obligatory shot from the location as well.
