Hi, Ok, I finally got a chance to fly my Estes Oracle today and it actually worked. So now I've got this 71,785 KB avi file, which is obviously way too big to put up on a website. I think I have to convert the file to something else to get it down to a manageable size, but I don't know what type of file to convert it to - or what program (hopefully free) to use to do this.
HELP!
Jim
Use Windows Movie Maker 2.1, available for Windows XP, it's free from Microsoft and comes pre-installed on newer XP systems. If you need to D/L it, you can get it at:
p.s. when you're done, please post a copy to the "alt.binaries.models.rockets" group!
Turns out I already had that, it was just kind of buried. It's getting late here, I'll see what I can do with it tomorrow. If I do manage to get it up onto the binaries site, don't get your hopes up. The wind today was fairly bad and the rocket was spinning quite a bit on it's way back down.
Thanks for your help!
Jim
I'm much more familiar with designing web pages then working with binaries, so how about this:
Jim
Way cool! Looks like you need a longer delay, to catch the horizon as the rocket arcs over at apogee.
I think the compression is just fine, as is. You won't get too much of an improvement by increasing the file size a whole lot, given that it's only about 15 fps, and lo-res to boot.
Good work and keep 'em coming!
Thank you - and thanks for the advice.
Jim
Thank you, and thank you for the advice.
Jim
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