Does anybody You Know, do video better than "THIS"

[SpectateSwamp]

Here's the skinny on HOW to capture slow motion golf swing videos for ALL the participants in a tournament.

We took our 2 camcorders to Hole #2. That TEE had the best lighting and least shade. The Hole runs to the North North East. Quite good for early morning and noon Tee-time Shoots.

For the quickest results follow this simple Videoing recipe.
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*AS each 'new' foursome arrives at the TEE:

-Shoot 1 extremely short video clip (1 or 2 seconds max) of the tournament list sheet or white-board with golfer names and Flight# or video the Golfers as they drive up in their Carts.

-Start recording the action when the Golfer addresses the ball.

-Shut off recording as soon as the swing is complete.

-then the next golfer in that foursome.

That's IT.
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The video software program Does-The-Rest.

The video is offloaded to the Laptop in 5 to 10 minutes. There are 90+ golf swing clips from each of the 2 CamCorders.

The App's "GOLF" option is selected:
--a text file is created with dual lines that control the video playback.

the first text line contains: -- The search line detail and controls for replay. ie
"photo c:\video_0012.mpg 06Sep2010 auto_catalog" (more search details like NAME & SCORE can be added here later)

the 2nd line (the physical location of the video files):
"xxx.c:\search\video_0012.mpg" (A mpeg video file called video_0012 on Drive C in a folder called 'Search')

The above tells the software to play the 6 to 8 sec video_0012.mpg Golf Swing Video at REGULAR speed.

What instructs the final 3 seconds (the swing) to play in SLO-MO is a minor addition of control INFO on the 1St line - of the second set of catalog test lines.

This NEW pair of detail text lines has "control info" E.G.:
" speed=125 " is the replay speed where 1000 is full speed. This 1/8 speed is in reality about 1/10 speed due to computer delay time resulting from the rapid video stops and starts from within the Slo-Mo playback controller.
" Start==-3000 " is the number of seconds (-3000 indicates 3 secs) from the end of file. where the playback starts.

The computer finds all the videos in the specified directories and automatically creates these 2 sets of lines for each video clip captured from the tournament. So these files are ready to play FULL speed and Slo-Mo for the golfers one after the other....

And the PLAY Begins... On the big screen RANDOMLY by foursomes... The mini clip filmed for each NEW foursome is the BREAK indicator that identifies each new play group as a SET. The computer selects and plays the groups randomly. On the BIG screen. All within 10 minutes of leaving the Course. How fast is that.

The mini-clip feature allows for easy synchronizing the video from 2 or more CamCorders. Choosing the Golfer's Seq# from His/Her video group; and having just those 2 videos play over and over is a snap.

What Entertainment Value to the golfers as they have their awards meal. They just loved it. What GREAT momentos the monogrammed USB STICKS (with vids set to randomly play) will be for them. Everybody will want to SPONSOR a cool gift like that...

All with next-to-NO technicalities. Simple and FAST. Simple is BEST.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/osoyoos_golf.htm for video samples from the 2 test demo tournaments

[johns0]

Not latest news,just golfing vid caps,thread moved to offtopics.