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Quality Compressed Videos with GoPro Hero

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

A Few Waves by GP

Here is how I compressed this Giampaolo’s amazing video:

  • Premiere Elements Shadows/Highlights filter (enable remove flicker in clip’s field options)
  • Sometimes it is worth to add just little bit of sharpen filter too, but not in this case
  • Frameserve (Debugmode) video to VirtualDub to resize to 400×304 (multiple of 16) and convert sound to 22050Hz Mono
  • Mencoder to encode into H.264 at 650Kbps (gobs of settings in the bat file, also need MP4Box)
  • Served from Amazon S3 using this script (the script needs unique player names if you have more than one player on a page). GP also points out (thanks!) that you’d want to remove page breaks if you post it on Blogspot.

    12V Portable Shower / Washer

    Sunday, February 1st, 2009

    I don’t like to wash my wetsuit. This is usually the last step after wrap-up and it involves taking suit from the bag, going to backyard, hosing it inside out and then carrying it back to dry. Really kills your mood after the session. (more…)

    Mast Mount for Gopro Digital Hero Video Camera

    Friday, July 25th, 2008

    Very helpful thingumabob for freestylers and just about any windsurfer working on technique.

    cam on a mast
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    Mike Godsey’s SF Bay Area Weather Glossary

    Friday, June 29th, 2007

    Advection
    A horizontal movement of any weather condition by the movement of air. For example along the West Coast summer fog occurs when warmer moist air moves over the cold upwelled waters near shore.
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    Windsurfing Sail Size Calculator

    Sunday, May 20th, 2007

    The online version of James Douglass‘ SailCalculator.xls originally posted in rec.windsurfing. See also Fin Size Calculator on Boards magazine’s website.
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    Crooked Cam Mk II

    Monday, May 7th, 2007

    The Crooked Cam Mk II is a waterproof helmet cam design, next generation, the initial version used waist-mounted pelican case, which was scary to sail with. Mk II has everything integrated neatly into a small Camelback.
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    Jibe Apparent Wind Calculator

    Monday, April 16th, 2007

    Did you ever wonder where the wind is coming from when you jibe? The answer is “it depends”. Make sure to play with presets in the applet below.
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