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Tree Machine · 18th April 2007, 05:24 AM

OK, Scotty. The video is actually where I'm hung up. I am really bad about labelling tapes. I have 15 one-hour DV tapes and have to fast-forward through entire tapes to find what I need. I may be further ahead to re-shoot, but I don't have any ground help to do the camera work.

The clips I can offer don't lend themselves really well to still photos since its more than the piece, but how the piece performs. You want to see smooth, not jerky, precision adjustment, one-handed, left or right and no-handed friction control. You want to see the device being put on the rope in two seconds or less. It needs to be shown working the two versions of a doubled rope and a single rope. You need very specifically to see soft lock / hard lock in action and it would be very good to see an in-air crossover swap between ascender and descender done in under 5 seconds.

Then there's the Quicktime thing, the .mov video format. I would like to present the stuff in .mov and .wmv to make sure that no one is excluded. Ekka and I are working on that. Also, there is no function within regular threads to post video, that function is in the video forum so I believe we'll have to link between here and there and transmit to a server, rather than to the thread itself. We'll work that out. I started digging into this stuff a few days ago and learned it was more involved. Like anything in life, you can schlock it together, or you can spend the time and do a good job. I doubt you guys want to see schlock.

As a special treat, we have made communication with a special guest, a world authority on mechanical devices. We have summoned forth this expert and he has agreed to join us in the thread. This motivates me greatly as I'm not so alone in the presentation. We have someone who can scrutinize and call me on any fine points. This third-party specialist can greatly increase the depth of the thread and keep the information factual to a high degree.

Men choosing to try these methods out in the trees will be putting their lives on it. I take this very, very seriously.

18th April 2007, 05:24 AM	#53 (permalink)
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 569	OK, Scotty. The video is actually where I'm hung up. I am really bad about labelling tapes. I have 15 one-hour DV tapes and have to fast-forward through entire tapes to find what I need. I may be further ahead to re-shoot, but I don't have any ground help to do the camera work. The clips I can offer don't lend themselves really well to still photos since its more than the piece, but how the piece performs. You want to see smooth, not jerky, precision adjustment, one-handed, left or right and no-handed friction control. You want to see the device being put on the rope in two seconds or less. It needs to be shown working the two versions of a doubled rope and a single rope. You need very specifically to see soft lock / hard lock in action and it would be very good to see an in-air crossover swap between ascender and descender done in under 5 seconds. Then there's the Quicktime thing, the .mov video format. I would like to present the stuff in .mov and .wmv to make sure that no one is excluded. Ekka and I are working on that. Also, there is no function within regular threads to post video, that function is in the video forum so I believe we'll have to link between here and there and transmit to a server, rather than to the thread itself. We'll work that out. I started digging into this stuff a few days ago and learned it was more involved. Like anything in life, you can schlock it together, or you can spend the time and do a good job. I doubt you guys want to see schlock. As a special treat, we have made communication with a special guest, a world authority on mechanical devices. We have summoned forth this expert and he has agreed to join us in the thread. This motivates me greatly as I'm not so alone in the presentation. We have someone who can scrutinize and call me on any fine points. This third-party specialist can greatly increase the depth of the thread and keep the information factual to a high degree. Men choosing to try these methods out in the trees will be putting their lives on it. I take this very, very seriously.