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ParticipantMy 30D doesn’t do video, so I don’t know exactly what format the “huge RAW thing” is. Looking at the specs on B&H, it appears that all Canon video-capable dSLRs use the MOV format (Apple’s QuickTime).
I’m not sure, but I think that Windows Movie Maker supports that format, or possibly can with a codec download from Apple. WMM is free and is included on a lot of recent to semi-recent machines. You could also probably look for a download link on Microsoft.com.
Using WMM, you can import your source movie and then edit it and downscale it for frame and file size so that it’s a size emailable to Grandma. Be warned that scaling a video of non-trivial length to emailing size is going to severely impact its quality.
If you’re not concerned with it being publically accessible, you could also try uploading to YouTube. Having never done that, though, I’m not sure what input types they accept or whether they auto-scale incoming videos. I think rav has done some YouTubing, so he might be able to offer some insight there.
Finally, have you looked in your Canon software for anything video related? I don’t know if there is or isn’t, but I’d be slightly surprised if Canon didn’t provide something for its video-enabled cameras.
Sorry I couldn’t help with more specifics.
ParticipantUm, wow! All of you. Looks like I need to get off my butt and take a few (thousand) more pictures!
ParticipantYeah, I guess mine increments the folder number after rolling over, too, but I didn’t pay any attention to it since this is the first time it’s happened.
I also assumed I’d be on the low end of the quantity scale, although I’m not sure I’d have guessed you at 60K with just another 10 months time!
ParticipantI’m so sorry to hear that.
I had a scare recently but fortunately all seemed to work out OK. I was on my way to photograph my son’s football game and put my monopod on the floor and camera with 1.4 extender and 2.8L-IS 70-200 lens on the back seat as I’ve done many times before. Only this time I had to make a really quick stop and as I did I heard this big “ker-thunk” as the camera went flying into the drivers seat and then onto the floor and monopod. I guess the seat and floor were padded enough that no damage (that I’ve been able to tell thus far anyway) was done, but boy was I cussing myself for a while.
Participantfirst add on HDD 4GB WD $209. just bought a 1 TB WD for $60. 🙂
now this i saw in ’69 in santa monica at a company that did programing for the air force. they had a legacy vacuum tube mainframe with a 3 foot by 5 foot panel which had rows and rows of light bulbs. when they did a dump a polaroid mounted on a swing arm was aimed at the panel and a picture taken. the programmer had to count the lights on/off to see where his program hung.
Ha! I’ve heard similar tales but fortunately avoided that era.
My first computer was a Heathkit H8. With an add-on card, you could store programs on cassette tape instead of having to key them in in hex each time you wanted to run it.
My first PC was a Dell 386 in about ’88. It had a 25MHz processor, 40MB hard drive and I think 2MB of memory. Note that those are M‘s and not G‘s. Where was the G then? In the price – 6G’s. I was trying to start a small business then and got it on a 5-year lease. Quite the painful experience.
Participant[insert facepalm here]
I wouldn’t beat myself up too badly about that. If that was my first time selling a photo to a professional publication, I could totally see myself doing that, too.
And like you said, you’ve now got a publishing credit, along with a pretty intersting story to go along with it.
ParticipantSheesh, it’s come a long way.
Yep, that’s probably the thing that makes me feel oldest – how often I find myself saying, “I can’t believe insert product with unbelievable capacity/performance is only $insert unbelievably low price“. 🙂
My first year in college, terminals were a scarce resource and so were reserved for upper classmen. Freshmen had to use punch cards. Yes, my first real programming class was in FORTRAN on punch cards.
Can someone help me find my walker?
ParticipantOh, you went to see The Who back then, too?
Well, it was a couple of years after college, during their first “farewell” tour. My souvenir cup that’s now a pencil holder and has certainly seen better days:
“wait till we can put you in a Home…”
Oh, no, I’ve already told my kids that I changed their diapers so I expect the same in return. 😆
ParticipantI used to do a lot of translation work, and I can tell you that the marketing stuff was the hardest to do. Lots of words saying nothing.
I’ve never thought about it, but that makes a lot of sense. Lots of nuances, innuendos, and word play that wouldn’t necessarily translate directly.
Participant/me tosses key to shed
Mow it before you leave…😉
Sure.
I always like to help the aged 😆 😆
Eh? Speak up, will you!? I was a junior in college when that video came out so I’m a little hard of hearing. 🙂
ParticipantI like the picture, and it’s great that you can now brag that you are “a US-based photographer who works mainly in former Soviet-bloc countries exploring themes of torture and control on the post-communist psyche”.
Oooh, you’re good. You should be in marketing (assuming you’re not already). 🙂
ParticipantThat’s quite the tale. I’d have had a hard time believing it initially, too.
OK, so I have to ask – What does something like that pay? If you’d rather give a ballpark answer or even not answer, of course I understand, but my curiousity wouldn’t let me not ask.
ParticipantSweet! How did it work out that a Polish magazine found your photo?
October 20, 2010 at 1:34 am in reply to: Overnight trip nets pictures for at least 4 contests #34500ParticipantI really, REALLLY like 1,2,3, and 10. Nice work!
Since this is Fark, let me just say: THIS!
Really, nice shots rav.
ParticipantThat’s a real one-two punch. First Martin Gardner earlier this year and now Mandelbrot himself.
Gardner’s Scientific American article first introduced me to fractals. Using the algorithm he described in the article, I wrote my first fractal generator sometime in the early ’80s (before the IBM PC was introduced). It ran on a 6MHz Z80-based computer. And by ran, I mean for days and days just to generate a small data set. There were no floating-point processors then, so I wrote my own fixed-point math library, which limited the resolution but was still exponentially faster than floating point.
Somewhere I’ve still got a set of 3 boxes (30 floppies) of 5-1/4″ floppies that contain one of those datasets. I’m not sure I still have a machine that will even read them. The entire data set could probably be generated in real-time on a modern machine, but back then it represented a few weeks of computing.
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