2014 Ga. Rally volunteers needed

[Recovry4x4]

Some of my video will be sans audio so it would need some music or narration dubbed in.

 

[Tow4]

Some of my video will be sans audio so it would need some music or narration dubbed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

 

[RAYZER]

The vid would be in fast motion!

 

[Robo McDuff]

John, do we have a dedicated production person who might be able to produce a video?.

I'm not a professional, and all I have is Windows Movie Maker, but I'd love any raw clips to merge together into something presentable for the group.

Same here, I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS 6.

What about collecting/copying all raw video and digital pics during the Rally onto one hard drive, so everybody who wants it can get it copied already there? I will be bringing my laptop with PP and also a 1 TB portable hard drive.

 

[EMD567]

John, do we have a dedicated production person who might be able to produce a video?.

Not to my knowledge. I am very good with a video camera, but suck at editing/post production.(have hours and hours of trains on video, you can ask Ferro.) I am excellent at still photography, but I will be leading the convoy.

I know we had a guy show up at the 2012 SSGA, and did some excellent work with a go pro and video camera. In fact, his go pro was run over by a deuce, and survived!

The other problem is the format that the video is in. My camera is a high end Sony, and uses mini DV tape. A lot of he smaller camcorders use a hard drive, and are much easier to download into a computer. Almost everybody can edit/post stills- some of the newer cameras use bluetooth to transfer the data to web.

 

[Robo McDuff]

Not to my knowledge. I am very good with a video camera, but suck at editing/post production.(have hours and hours of trains on video, you can ask Ferro.) I am excellent at still photography, but I will be leading the convoy.

I know we had a guy show up at the 2012 SSGA, and did some excellent work with a go pro and video camera. In fact, his go pro was run over by a deuce, and survived!

The other problem is the format that the video is in. My camera is a high end Sony, and uses mini DV tape. A lot of he smaller camcorders use a hard drive, and are much easier to download into a computer. Almost everybody can edit/post stills- some of the newer cameras use bluetooth to transfer the data to web.

I have an old DCR-HC85E using mini-DVs in avi and a newer Sony SR10 with hard drive shooting in mts. With PP CS6, I can copy from the SR10 and capture into PP from the Sony 85E. The only problem sometimes is with this specific Sony mts format; you have to watch your project settings to make sure the audio gets over OK.

The 85 can be switched to "1080 mode" which actually is fake; part of the shot is cut to get to the proper ratio and avoid black stripes. Mostly I shoot in the native 720x576. The SR10 is full HD 1920x1080. Problem is to cut those two formats together. The best is to set for the resolution of the majority and somehow cut the rest to fit that.

I have the PC hardware and software combo to do this easily and quick - theoretically at least. My problem, same as most people here I think, is that I am very slow at going through all the shots and cutting it into something nice. I had to do it for 15 3-minutes videos on nature conservation for both web and downloadable to mobile phone. That means exporting the final product in 4 different formats. I managed, but it took a lot of time and trying and learning how to work with PP CS6.

As mentioned earlier, why not share all the raw material with a few interested persons who have at least the tools and some knowledge and let them have a go at it. Would be interesting to see the different end results from the same material.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Putting it on a common drive makes the most sense. I'll have no problem sharing what little I'm able to capture.

 

[SCSG-G4]

I don't know how much room the raw videos take up, but as I sit here there is a 128GB DataSport USB drive hanging on the wall to my left. If it will all fit on this capacity drive, the best way might be to have several of them available (IE, bring your own). Put everything on a single drive, then make copies for a group of people to work on individually/in small groups after the rally. Multiple copies of the same data in geographically dispersed areas makes me feel better!

 

[Robo McDuff]

High quality jpg pics take about 3 Mb, raw format about 6 mb. Looking at my collection, 100 GB would almost certainly be enough for whatever we shoot together in pics and video. Laptops should have enough room but tablets and most simple flash drives not.

Quick calculation: you would need 20 GB for the pics: lot of pics but relative small files. Video: 60 GB.

What I suggest/offer is that at a specific time during breakfasts (on Friday, Saturday, Sunday) we will go around and collect the photo material until that date. Just blindly copy everything. I can run through them, throw out those that are not sharp or really unusable, get them all good oriented, and then batch rename them for owner and day in separate folder. Same with video, but downloading will take more time.

We should put some guidelines in place for this. Most important, make sure your camera has no pics on it from before the rally. Second, take copying cables for your specific camera. If it needs special software for downloading, take it or mention it before and I will install it on my laptop (Asus N56JR, really quick with a Haswell Core i7 CPU and a GeForce GTX 760M graphic card). We also could collect portable drives upon arrival and get the stuff copied onto it. Make sure that the drives are empty.

 

[Recovry4x4]

We could also set up a dump station at the registration area and encourage folks to drop copies of their stuff there. I hope to take some vehicle mounted footage of the trip up using the gopro and some drone footage of the field and convoy and if time permits, maybe go out on one trail ride, maybe to the grand canyon to capture some aerial footage there.

Both the HMFIC and XO are computer literate and one should be in the area at all times!

 

[Robo McDuff]

We could also set up a dump station at the registration area and encourage folks to drop copies of their stuff there. I hope to take some vehicle mounted footage of the trip up using the gopro and some drone footage of the field and convoy and if time permits, maybe go out on one trail ride, maybe to the grand canyon to capture some aerial footage there.

Both the HMFIC and XO are computer literate and one should be in the area at all times!

Even better, provided that people take the time to drop their copies off. since this will be my first attendance, no idea how often people run along the registration area. We probably should combine ideas here to make sure that we get everything in one place.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Agreed. I'm at the corner of 1st and Main St so to speak so most everyone comes by. It's also at times a social gathering so it's not as boring as it sounds.

 

[bchauvette]

Putting it on a common drive makes the most sense. I'll have no problem sharing what little I'm able to capture.

How about setting up a public cloud drive everybody can upload to and down load from? I use Microsoft One Drive.

 

[swbradley1]

Agreed. I'm at the corner of 1st and Main St so to speak so most everyone comes by. It's also at times a social gathering so it's not as boring as it sounds.

Yes Robo the reg tent almost always has to be passed to get in and out of everything. The HQ will be there this year as well.

 

[ODFever]

I've used Robocopy for years on my servers to transfer massive amounts of data between file shares. Robocopy is built into Microsoft Windows 7. It's a very easy way to kick off a hard drive copy that verifies the data has transferred. You can set a switch to spit out a log file as well.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd542631.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1073.robocopy-and-a-few-examples.aspx

 

[RAYZER]

Yes Robo the reg tent almost always has to be passed to get in and out of everything. The HQ will be there this year as well.

Please elaborate on how the "HQ" will be be set up.
Will it be used for administration/ stockade/triag?

 

[clinto]

Please elaborate on how the "HQ" will be be set up.
Will it be used for administration/ stockade/triag?

The RT will be where it has been since we moved to the new field in 2012. HQ will be next to it so you can consider it one big "HQ/RT" command module. Anything short of brain surgery will probably occur here. You can think of this as the "Nerve center" of SSGR.

First aid will be next to the RT/HQ area, in the area that Tigger had always used.

 

[swbradley1]

Please elaborate on how the "HQ" will be be set up.
Will it be used for administration/ stockade/triag?

Actually it is where firing squads have practice too but I didn't want to dampen any spirits.
(Cuts out the need for a stockade too.)


Reg tent then the spot to the right will be the HQ setup where Clinto and Dawn were last year then the First Aid spot like Clinto said.

 

[Whiterabbit]

HQ out in the field was always easy to find, it was always surrounded in concertina wire and had the tallest antennas!
That and all the hot air coming from it!

 

[Recovry4x4]

HQ out in the field was always easy to find, it was always surrounded in concertina wire and had the tallest antennas!
That and all the hot air coming from it!

Ours won't be much different. We will likely have the tallest flag pole and instead of hot air, it will be fartgas escaping. Working on the concertina now!