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Re: Wanaka
Posted by Chris Hinch on Thu Apr 04, 2002 06:01:44 AM
In reply top Wanaka posted by Chris on Sat Mar 30, 2002 09:05:23 PM
Glad that you were able to enjoy the web coverage - I was pulling my hair out on Saturday afternoon trying to keep it running. The problem turned out to be mostly caused by a flat 9 volt battery in the video capture unit! I recall that we had a similar problem in 2000, which just goes to show I haven't learnt anything in 2 years!!
Once we sorted that out, a good friend called John Simpson kept an eye on it, restarting the capture whenever it died on Sunday. All in all, over 200,000 images from the live camera were delivered during the show.
Over 10 straight hours of coverage were filmed and are on tape, which will be incorporated into the airshow video. We wanted to stream video, but we just cannot get any bandwidth out of Wanaka.
Next time we're aiming for multiple hosts, multiple dedicated feeds, and multiple capture units, as well as photo galleries and commentary in the data stream.
Sorry for not putting as much commentary on as in last years, but other pressures were on as well (three air to ground and air to air photo sorties from a Huges 500... you guys just had to come second to that... *grin*)
Cheers