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Posted by Mr. Toy (Member # 311) on :

I have a new toy, a digital camera that will shoot short videos. I have uploaded a video of the Coast Starlight to my web space that I shot last week. I haven't had a chance to make a link from my website, yet. I'll give you all a chance to get a sneak preview.

The video is in WMV format, so it requires Windows Media Player 6.0 or higher. It is 2 minutes 10 seconds long and is just under 1.8MB, so if you have a dial-up connection it may take several minutes to download. In that case I suggest you right-click the link and select "Save target as" and download it before viewing.

And here it is... http://members.aol.com/toysontrax/11insalinas.WMV

I hope this works...

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Trust God, love your neighbor, and never mistake opinion for truth.
-Mr. Toy

The Del Monte Club Car

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Posted by Newtimes (Member # 2037) on :

Enjoyed the video. I just acquired 500k internet service on my cable so the video loaded in only a few seconds. It was great seeing trains in California while in Virginia. An excellent way to quickly and visually bring a thought, comment or idea to the Railforum. Good job.

Russell in Va

Posted by royaltrain (Member # 622) on :

It worked just fine on my computer, a quite clear and not too jerky image--well done.

Posted by JudAnnS (Member # 2419) on :

That was too cool! Well done indeed! It came out nice and clear on my pc.

Posted by Amtrak288 (Member # 1967) on :

Mr. Toy, nice clear video! It's really nice to see an Amtrak Train that looks like a passenger train should look like with no pesky Mail & Express cars on the rear end! Very well done video, now I think I want a video camera now!

Posted by sutton (Member # 1612) on :

Mr Toy,
Great stuff; I only had to wait five seconds for it to start.

Posted by UncleBuck44 (Member # 2049) on :

Two thumbs up says Buck
5 golden stars.
I loved how when you showed the door to that one sleeper all of a sudden people appear out of no where.

Posted by Mr. Toy (Member # 311) on :

Thank's all. I'm glad it worked, and I'm glad you liked it.

UncleBuck, at the risk of being too detail oriented, the car door belonged to a coach, not a sleeper. I wanted to get someone opening the door, but I waited and waited with the camera running until it got boring. I began shooting again when people emerged.

If you listened carefully, you could hear radio transmissions from the scanner that was on my belt. I hadn't thought about getting that in my audio track. Next time I'll either turn it up or place it closer to the camera. It was a windy day, so there was a lot of wind noise which garbled the sound.

Technical stuff if anyone is interested: the camera was a Canon S50, which will shoot videos up to three minutes in AVI format. The original was much too large to upload (over 15MB!) so I compressed it in Windows Movie Maker. The original is much clearer, but I can't show you that or I would deplete my web space in a hurry!

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Trust God, love your neighbor, and never mistake opinion for truth.
-Mr. Toy

The Del Monte Club Car

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Posted by rmiller (Member # 341) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Toy:

UncleBuck, at the risk of being too detail oriented, the car door belonged to a coach, not a sleeper. I wanted to get someone opening the door, but I waited and waited with the camera running until it got boring. I began shooting again when people emerged.

Very nice clip....I think my S30 will do that, too...I'll have to play around with it.

re that delay in opening the coach door....probably because that coach attendant was responsible for two cars and he opened the other one first. During the delay, imagine him hustling to the other car and the folks wanting to get off doing a slow burn.

rick