Baller Rich Posted February 18, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 18, 2013 Just curious, how often are you taking video? Evrything happens fast enough to have a review. Do you ever video your boat path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller KcSwerver Posted February 18, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 18, 2013 Video almost every set from the boat, results? I can study and figure out what I'm doing wrong and it also gives me something to watch durring the depressing cold months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller aswinter05 Posted February 18, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 18, 2013 Every single set. Several Gigabytes of ski video on my hard drive :) I always reduce speed of the video playback via Windows Media player. I do this on the videos that I either did things right or on the videos I did horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ed_Johnson Posted February 18, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 18, 2013 Every set since 1994..Really important when you ski with a great coach such as Chet..You would be surprised how much you may have missed when you play it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ RichardDoane Posted February 18, 2013 Baller_ Share Posted February 18, 2013 we try to get video about 1/2 the time, but sometimes don't have a 3rd in the boat to handle camera duty, it really is very helpful to see your mistakes and also very humbling, but every now and then the stars align, you run your hardest pass, and that's the reason we all hit our heads against the course over and over and over...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Cam Posted February 18, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 18, 2013 I video most sets, apart from the obvious advantages I think it is good to get used to a camera in the boat as I always seemed to have a stinker of a set every time the camera came out, probably tying too hard for the camera. Now I have one less excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Than_Bogan Posted February 18, 2013 Gold Member Share Posted February 18, 2013 I barely do any. Really would benefit from doing it waay more often, but it always seems like just one more thing to have to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_n Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Probably only 4 or 5 sets a year, far too few. I video for other skiers far more. Main reason I don't video myself more is that although I own a Trakker and I like the results, I find it a pain to set up. My ski club has 12 minute slots ( which I like ) so there's just not enough time to set aTrakker up unless the slot before me happens to be empty. I've just bought a new camera mount from @darren at e-z-cam. Set-up is less than ten seconds on any boat. I intend to use it a lot this year, even going to take it with me when I go to ski school. I'll post how I get on with it if the water level in the lake ever drops enough to ski without wrecking the banks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Chef23 Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I am like @dave_n I don't video that much because of setup time for the Trakker. Probably only a few times a year. I video my son more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller GaryWilkinson Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 One or two times a year. Currently using my canon 7d but gotta get one of those Kodak video cameras soon. Gotta get a better, easier setup to be able to take the video and playit back on the iPad IN da boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller BraceMaker Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 My previous video was dependent on boat passangers, which were often poor videographers. I also have an E-Z-Cam for this upcoming season, and am currently shopping for a video camera of higher quality to ensure that I do not have this issue further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ed_Obermeier Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 When I bought my Kodak Zx5 this winter I also sprang for the remote control for it. Never have to touch the actual camera, the driver can turn on/off with the remote without even having to look at the camera. Should make it much easier to video with more consistancy. I don't think the Zx5 is anywhere near the best video camera out there, however for my intended use and for the price how do you beat it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller alex38 Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I have a zx5 on a homemade mount, it's durable, works well, waterproof is nice too, my friend says if you get higher speed sd cards the quality goes way up. Apparently there is a number value on the cards that determines that. Going to try that next. I video myself a lot-pretty helpful but also like verbal feedback between passes for faster adjustments to technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller alex38 Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 Oh yeah, and zx5 goes direct HDMI into 60 inch plasma (toooooo big). @ed obermeier I got a little remote too but found it useless cuz it only works if aimed from the front making it actually more difficult for driver to hit record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DavidP Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I video as often as I can - my kids hate doing it but it really helps me compare my form to skiers better than me that I want to emulate. I'm left foot forward so I like to compare form with CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Phil2360 Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 On a slight tangent, I was looking at a few bits of our footage on the weekend, in both Media Player & VLC, pausing & stepping back & forward etc & it got me thinking back to my old Mitsubishi VHS video recorder that had a jog & shuttle wheel on the remote. Was great the way you could control the playback/frame stepping rate just by spinning the wheel. Thought, Gee I miss that type of control & wondered whats about that aids in control of slow-mo, & frame by frame playback in the world of AVI files & media player software. Any one know anything? Could imagine that the mouse outputs could be used for some form of playback control or even the scroll wheel. Could be either a feature in a player or an add-in/Plug-in. Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ed_Obermeier Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 ..."I got a little remote too but found it useless cuz it only works if aimed from the front making it actually more difficult for driver to hit record. " Well that sucks. Didn't know that. Gonna have to play with it more. Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller DavidP Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I use a free software called Kinovea. It can do slide by slide playback and frame by frame as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Chris Rossi Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I video just about every set. That's how I came across the video of me skiing at 34pmh. Almost deleted it and then thought may be a few of you out there would appreciate it. I take my Trakker P4 with me when I go ski with friends at other lakes. It takes about a minute to tighten the two mounting screws. Then I can go ski and not have to rely on observer input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller SkiJay Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 @Rich I'm learning a ton from video. I video every set with a GoPro II on a Trakker 4. The Trakker's quick ck ck release shoe lives on the GoPro, so setup is 5 seconds and I leave the camera recording until we're done so it's no sweat for the driver(s). I find I miss the video review so much when I go to a coach that I now have a couple of Ski-Doc camera mounts on the way so I can record those sets too. Videoing the boat path is an excellent idea, but I don't think it would be a big hit with my wife/driver... "look honey, you shorted me on 3 & 5. Get it together woman!" ツ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller tfriess Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 @Dave_n I noticed from your picture of your 200 that there is an aftermarket tower on there. Any reasoning behind this? Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_n Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 @tfriess the 200 belongs to the club I belong to, Liquid Leisure in London. The tower is on there to make it easier for beginners to start and for the wakeboarders we have. The original 200 tower we had last year fixes onto the boat too far back. On shortline, 12m and under I think, the rope needs to bend around the tower when the skier is at the buoy line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller alex38 Posted February 19, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2013 I leave mine running right thru too to not bother driver, but real step is to have pros view it more, I can only see so much no matter how much I watch, except for gates though-can really see width, speed, coordinate to boat and timing at 1 ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Phil2360 Posted February 20, 2013 Baller Share Posted February 20, 2013 Great video playback tool @DavidP. Kinovea, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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