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Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse
MufasaZX writes "Start with a relatively rare occurrence, the complete lunar eclipse from last Wednesday. Next add the amazingly rare, a perfectly clear fog free night in San Francisco, as viewed from the cliffs overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Then I set up my trusty Sony MiniDV camcorder and wide angle lens on a tripod and proceeded to freeze my butt off for 2 hours. Dump the video into Premier, accelerate it 200x to just 37 seconds, and the resulting video is IMHO simply stunning. Until my web server gets crushed you can download it here, but after that please use your Gnutella client of choice and search for LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv."
...about promoting DRM in WMV format? Come on, there's so many open-source or open-source-friendly formats and you must pick the one Microsoft has introduced especially so they could support DRM?
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This video is lame. It's not worthy of an effort by a geek.
My impression is that the person who shot the video accidentally recorded the eclipse and was really just wanting to make a time-lapse of the SF skyline and bridge.
For the first half of the clip I couldn't even tell where the moon was, I kept focusing on the red blinky light on the bridge.
Lame, Lame, Lame.
Full marks for the attempt though. Next time skip the wide-angle, or better yet use a long lens or a low power (20x) scope with motor drive. -- I would have done this, but I had prior plans that excluded my tending to the security of the rig.
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mplayer fails to play it for me. Dunno what codec he used, but it's not one that my mplayer supports.