Comments on: Slow Mo Launches

By: robert

robert — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:38:12 +0000

thanks lucas,

this trick simplyfies camera mounting on the flexi a lot

best rob

By: Lucas

Lucas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:55:15 +0000

Hey Rob, Yea, I put it upside down as far back on the keel as I could comfortably go before the camera touches the ground when the glider is just sitting on the ground (so it won’t hit on landing, etc.).

Right now I use Premiere Pro CS4 (thinking of getting a Mac and going to Final Cut Pro), but many video editing software packages have this function. You just tell it rotation – I don’t see any image loss, I think it just remaps the location of each pixel so it shouldn’t distort the image or degrade it.

This is what it looks like in Premiere, you would just change the “0.0″ to “180″:

By: robert

robert — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:28:18 +0000

hi lucas,
cool videos !
I noticed that you mounted the C7D upside down.
What program do you use to turn the video around?
Does this affect rendering quality in any way, i.e when combining it with normal position footage.

many thanks &
nice thermals
rob

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:29 +0000

Hey Lorenzo, Thanks for watching! Yea, I am saving that short clip of following that school bus for another video, but included that still photo in this post. I changed the name of the post to something more accurate. See you in the air!

Lucas

By: Lorenzo Labrador

Lorenzo Labrador — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:38:20 +0000

Hey Lucas! Great website and your videos are only getting better. A pleasure to watch!
The video that opens when I click on the “Racing a school bus” link is not that, but the “Slow motion hang gliding launches”, which is also great, btw.

Good flying,

Lorenzo.