My FPS Journeys

Im hopeing i can make it in next year.

I heard some Dog Fashion Disco in the first Castle Conquest video. The song is called 9-5 at the Morgue, I believe.

Anyways, awesome videos. I want to play at EMR so bad.

LOL at the Review video at time 8:41.

UPDATE!

Long ass time since I've updated this.

Here's a couple of new vids. I'll write up about them later.

FPS: Castle Conquest 24
FPS: Viper

Hey been away from the PB world for a while. Busy with the demo derby and enduro races. Next weekend is another paintball event, and I plan on filming the activities from then as well. Pump Pandemonium IV at EMR Paintball.



The Camera setup. Up until now it has been a helmet camera feeding into a DVR: Digital Video Recorder. But that depended on SD cards. Too unreliable. I now have a Canon MiniDV recorder with an AV input. The image is cleaner and reliable. If I push record it'll keep recording until I make it stop. There's no fuzzy pixel lines from corrupt files. Or any other BS that the DVR gave me.

The helmet camera of choice is a bit more expensive than some others out there. Like that ATC2K that some use. That's all self contained, which is a big perk. But the video quality wasn't what I wanted. I went through www.helmetcamera.com and got a full setup. The camera sets inside an aluminum protective shell so if I fall on a rock or a paintball hits it... no damage I'm still good to go!

And the video quality with these is amazing. What I upload, by side-by-side comparison, is compressed garbage. I need to compress it though or else it'd be like 5 gigs of video footage. Rather than only about 30-70 megs. The raw footage however is as clean as any standard video camera can give you. Good enough for a paintball DVD.

Edited by Mephistopheles - 30 July 2007 at 1:23pm

The Guy wrote: Meph, i was curious about the rig you use to do all the filming.

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I think we all are.

Tell us the secretz!!11

Hopefully I'll be having some better looking/sounding vids up with my future attempts. I researched and bought a new miniDV camcorder, plus an extra big battery and 5 miniDV's. No more lost footage, no more attempting to salvage stuff from the SD cards, and maybe if I can convince somebody to follow me with the camcorder I can toss in some 3rd person action. I've always wanted to make a Gears of War looking vid from the footage. Roadie Run ftw!

w00t. Okay Bataan from EMR's Memorial day weekend is up and live on Youtube now. Enjoy.

Just got back from Bataan at EMR this weekend. Sunburned a bit but not too bad, just heatful not painful. Haven't even looked at any of the footage yet. Hope it turned out clear. Will try and get a video edited up in next few days.

There we go. Done and done. I'm however not happy with Youtube quality. So I think I'm going to re-save it with a higher bit rate to increase clearity.