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Skybuck Flying
Hello,
Today there was a pretty heavy thunder/rain storm.
I decided to film it, and to try and catch a lightning rod in action on
camera !
I life in an appartment next to another building that is often hit by
lightning rods.
Just as I placed the camera near the open window and walked away a lightning
rod struck just meters away from me I think...
I thought wow... gotta look at the playback later on !![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I left the camera running and recording as much as possible from the storm
as possible.
I got a little bit wet and then I had to close the window... then I let it
run onwards.
Until the battery ran out which was after a couple of minutes...
I thought... oh to bad.. but ok I get the best parts...
Then as I replaced the batteries I noticed the camera froze when trying to
playback.
The "camera's operating system" complete froze...
I was scared that the movie was lost...
But examening it in windows via usb cable shows the movie is still there on
the flash card.
It's an apple quicktime movie... a format which always has problems on PC's
as well as Mac's and I don't understand why it's used at all.
It's not even open source ?!? And it produces crappy quality as well at
least on the nikon but that might be a camera issue...
Anyway trying to play back the *.mov on the pc results in nothing.
The file cannot be opened because it is not recgonized ?!
This sux bad ! There is 100 MB of recording but none of it can be played ?!
Why the **** is that ?!? Weird/bad !
Conclusion: apple's quicktime is not suited for digital camera's where
batteries could run out at any moment.
Only removing the batteries resetted the operating system of the camera
thank god for that !![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
So far I have tried the following programs on Windows XP x64:
VirtualDub
VirtualDubMod
Quicktime Player
VLC Media Player
MKV Player
Nero Show Time
Possibily otherwise with little luck. I am now starting the Mac OS X
operating system in a virtual machine...
Maybe it has a better player... I doubt it though![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Also there seem to be some mac quicktime repair tools out there.
Sucks that I now have to spent so much time trying to get this video working
!
BAH.
Can we all please dumb this ridicilously bad format as a world ?!
Thank you !
And have a nice day because I am not having a nice day at the moment !
![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
because of this shit !
Bye,
Skybuck.
Today there was a pretty heavy thunder/rain storm.
I decided to film it, and to try and catch a lightning rod in action on
camera !
I life in an appartment next to another building that is often hit by
lightning rods.
Just as I placed the camera near the open window and walked away a lightning
rod struck just meters away from me I think...
I thought wow... gotta look at the playback later on !
I left the camera running and recording as much as possible from the storm
as possible.
I got a little bit wet and then I had to close the window... then I let it
run onwards.
Until the battery ran out which was after a couple of minutes...
I thought... oh to bad.. but ok I get the best parts...
Then as I replaced the batteries I noticed the camera froze when trying to
playback.
The "camera's operating system" complete froze...
I was scared that the movie was lost...
But examening it in windows via usb cable shows the movie is still there on
the flash card.
It's an apple quicktime movie... a format which always has problems on PC's
as well as Mac's and I don't understand why it's used at all.
It's not even open source ?!? And it produces crappy quality as well at
least on the nikon but that might be a camera issue...
Anyway trying to play back the *.mov on the pc results in nothing.
The file cannot be opened because it is not recgonized ?!
This sux bad ! There is 100 MB of recording but none of it can be played ?!
Why the **** is that ?!? Weird/bad !
Conclusion: apple's quicktime is not suited for digital camera's where
batteries could run out at any moment.
Only removing the batteries resetted the operating system of the camera
thank god for that !
So far I have tried the following programs on Windows XP x64:
VirtualDub
VirtualDubMod
Quicktime Player
VLC Media Player
MKV Player
Nero Show Time
Possibily otherwise with little luck. I am now starting the Mac OS X
operating system in a virtual machine...
Maybe it has a better player... I doubt it though
Also there seem to be some mac quicktime repair tools out there.
Sucks that I now have to spent so much time trying to get this video working
!
BAH.
Can we all please dumb this ridicilously bad format as a world ?!
Thank you !
And have a nice day because I am not having a nice day at the moment !
because of this shit !
Bye,
Skybuck.