"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I finally got some time to put this one up on our site. See it at

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...ash_1-2005.mpg

It's a HUGE file, sent to us by a fellow newsgroupie who used his TIVO
set-up to capture the video, enlarge it, and run it in slow-motion.

For future reference, to you and whoever did the video capture from his
Tivo...

It makes no sense whatsoever to capture the video in slow motion. All that
does is add unnecessary frames. The end viewer can slow the video down if
they like (any decent media player will do that), and adding frames
proportionally expands the size of the file with NO benefit.

On the bright side, you were incorrect about the video being enlarged. It's
actually been reduced from NTSC size (DV capture is usually 640x480, once
the video's been resampled to make square pixels) down to 321x240 pixels,
effectively reducing the size of the file by 3/4ths.

I would agree with people who suggest that rather than saying "HUGE" you
just state how large the file is. "HUGE" means practically nothing in terms
of understanding exactly how large the file actually is.

It really shows how little choice the poor Cessna pilot had at the last
moment, when that pickup truck suddenly appeared out of no where. His
choices were either (a) hit the truck, or (b) try to veer to the right
and avoid it.

He chose (b), thus saving everyone in the pickup truck, but gave his
life in exchange. A true hero.

I disagree that the pickup "suddenly appeared out of no where". Maybe it
did, but nothing about the video suggests that the truck was anywhere other
than right on the road all along. It's there traveling in that lane as soon
as the camera's panned enough to the left to show it.

Furthermore, while the outcome was positive for the occupants of the truck,
that's simply a matter of good luck. The resulting crash could just as
easily have ended up with the airplane dropping at 0 forward speed right in
front of the truck. That likely would have had worse consequences than
simply landing the airplane in front of or even on top of the traffic in the
road.

More importantly, a hero would not have lined up on a busy roadway in the
first place when selecting an emergency landing site. Roads are one of the
worst choices for an emergency landing, at least in any developed area, due
to the traffic and (oddly enough) utility poles and lines.

Pete