Waddell on Sunday

[drroc]

I saw that it was pretty crowded at Scotts and telephoto lenses were out in full force. Hopefully a few videos will surface :)

This is the video from Waddell which had pretty decent waves and a lot fewer people.
https://vimeo.com/110175300[/video]
Edit: for the technically inclined. The video was shot in 1440 at 48fps and then was stretched and cropped to 1080p 30fps

[yojimbo]

looking good ddroc, looks like you were having some fun.

[drroc]

looking good ddroc, looks like you were having some fun.

It was great fun until I dropped the kite and had to swim in through 8-10ft break zone. The stupid thing could only launch inverted, so I decided to body drag to shore. I ended up being hit by a largish wave. Even flying the kite to the opposite side of the wave didn't help much (inverted kite flies like shit and has very reduced pull). I was very glad that I was wearing my Dakine impact vest that doubles up as a light weight flotation jacket. So I highly recommend extra flotation on largish days.

[yojimbo]

Both Youtube and Vimeo are really cracking down on using copyrighted music in videos since I last uploaded a video a few months back. Doesn't seem to be a way to pay for the music you want in your video, you have to select from their "library", which is really, really just awful.

On a positive note, both platforms now allow you the option of playing the video at 720 and 1080p, HD, however playback on a mobile device stills seems spotty.

Don't know how long this will play before it is shut down:

https://vimeo.com/110705959[/video]

[drroc]

That was a pretty lazy long wave :)

I think on youtube you can have copyrighted music, but that video can only be seen on youtube (i.e. no embedded vids). I have been meaning to take a look at this https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos to see if there are decent music tracks covered under CC license.

As far as mobile device playback is concerned. My nexus5 plays 1080p vimeo videos pretty well. I think it highly depends on the mobile device.

[yojimbo]

https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

OMG, what is that? There is this whole bizarro alternative world of free music. It's like the Island of Misfit Toys for music. My ears are bleeding.