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Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:25 pm

thats sounds like a hell of a job! how many fames per second is your camera?
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:31 pm

OMG DYI, that is some really nice pwnage right there :twisted:
It made that "solid" wood door look like a piece of balsa wood! I noticed your stand didn't fair so well, or is it supposed to collapse like that :lol:
As much as i love MrC's melon my vote so far goes to you sir.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:35 pm

spudfarm wrote:thats sounds like a hell of a job! how many fames per second is your camera?
30. It's a digital camera, not a proper video camera.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:57 pm

What program do you use Crowley?

Great videos guys!
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:58 pm

I'm torn between the two at the moment - so I'll have to try and beat them both!!!111one!!

I'll see what I can do, but I've only really got HEAL for the job, so I can't wreak the same scale of destruction as the other two have so far, but I may have got the edge on velocity. But my bore size need not work against me completely...
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:31 pm

WOW!! wrote:What program do you use Crowley?

Great videos guys!
Sony Vegas 7.0d

And DYI - Windows Movie Maker i'd take it :lol:

My WMM screws up every time I try and do something.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:47 pm

Did you have to buy it or can you download it for free legally?


And your video made me laugh for some reason.. in a good way.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:29 pm

Yeah, mine's was made with WMM, which may explain its overall level of half-assedness. I really do need to get a better camera, and a better editing program...
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DYI wrote:Yeah, mine's was made with WMM, which may explain its overall level of half-assedness. I really do need to get a better camera, and a better editing program...
Same here, WMM has been good but it has it limitations. Would be nice to get a high speed camera.
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:40 pm

Great entries guys.

I've added links to each entry in the first post. I'll try to keep that section updated as more entries are submitted.
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Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:07 am

WOW!! wrote:Did you have to buy it or can you download it for free legally?


And your video made me laugh for some reason.. in a good way.
I didn't buy it and it wasn't legal, let's just say that.

You may be able to download a trial and crack it, but I just got 'hold off' the full copy using not so legal methods.
DYI wrote:Yeah, mine's was made with WMM, which may explain its overall level of half-assedness. I really do need to get a better camera, and a better editing program...
WMM is good for small things, a lot quicker to boot up, pretty self explanatory and does the basics. Vegas looks confusing the first time you see it.


Wait why do you guys say I have good editing skills? I could've made that on WMM except for the glowing font stuff, and I just watched it again and noticed shotty timing with the music and the video was all over the place.
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Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:19 am

It was all over the place to you, you made it. Looked normal and sounded good. Windows Movie Maker wont back up the clip will it? I mean like in MrCrowley's video??? But does have good choices with font and font effects. WMM gives me trouble with music, saying I don't have the licenses to do that, something to that effect. It was allowing me to use anything from my libary, but then I started getting that message. There needs to be a "how to" on this stuff.
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Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:32 am

You mean reverse the video? Like I said I took 30+ still frames, added them in as pictures one by one, manually edited the time length of each frame, then I manually put them in again in reverse order so it rewinds the clip.

I did this for quality sake, not because I didn't know how to reverse a clip. I made three back ups of the 60 frame video(30 frames in normal, 30 in reverse). I had a half speed, twice speed, and normal speed.

Took awhile, but it came out good.
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Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:00 am

I'm entering my Tennis Ball Launcher firing an Oasis bottle at 90psi and blasting it's way through 1" of plywood. It was this, or an Oasis bottle completely disintegrating after smashing into a tree at 90psi.

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Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:38 am

Thats a nice little video MaxuS. Toasted that plywood!
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