Rec Climbing Vid by Nick

[NickfromWI]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1862159859074835907&pr=goog-sl

I made this one the day after thanksgiving. My video making skills are novice at best, and the climbing info in this vid is not really targeted to experts.

Make sure you see the outtakes!

love
nick

[No_Bivy]

nick, get yourself an itty bitty LED so the next time you are "be-nighted" you can keep going. I like the Ziptikka. Climbing at night is OK if one is prepared. I also carry a monocular to scope out ties in. It still looked like fun, and of course EPICS are always fun once they are over.
I have a friend who got benighted on the side of the Diamond on Longs Peak. They shivered all night. The culprit.....snagged rope on rappell and no light.....

[Paul B]

cool Nick. you should have listed yourself in the credits as your own stunt double too! :D

[MasterBlaster]

You need a cameraman!

Cool vid, thanks!!!

[Hollywood]

I recently got over a few weeks of bad luck retrieving my RG. No fun! Hey, I wish it was 47 degrees here!:hotsun:

[Frans]

Good narration, but the camera work left me with a mild headache

[Stumper]

Shall we take up a collection to get Nick a tripod?

[NickfromWI]

Alright smart alecks. I HAVE a headlamp. 2 actually. No wait. I have 3 (PrincetonTec EOS and Aurora, and I have a petzl e-Lite). The folks I was climbing with had to be back in LA-Land for some evening appointments. My thought was, "you're going to be late anyways, so what's 10 or 15 more minutes?" But they wanted to get going. They were paying me good money, so I wasn't going to complain.

Regarding the filmwork- I agree. It is quite shakey. I have a tripod, and that would help for MOST of the things. A camera person would help, you're right.

The fact that the rope got stuck kindof scared me. I set the retrieval on the wrong side, looked at it 3 times, then climbed on. Just a bid scary to know that mistakes are waiting us around every corner.

Was the vid quality good enough?

love
nick

[No_Bivy]

I was'nt trying to ruffle yo' feathers......I didn't know you were "guideing" fo' money.....:D

[Stumper]

You strung the RG up backwards because the evil dastardly clients were distracting you.

[pantheraba]

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Make sure you see the outtakes!

Hahhahaha...."clipped into the big ring...son of a bytch"

Nick, that was a fine video...it's tough being a one man show. I have seen LOTS worse camera work, jerkiness, than that. Keep at it.

Damage by "curious critters" concerns me, too. Back in the day we often left our (manila) ropes in the tree until we came back the next day to finish a job.

I do everything I can to not leave ropes in trees when I can't be there with them. I have a tree house with nylon net windows...the squirrels have worked on the mesh over the years. I wouldn't want them to get into my climbing line.

Good work...thanks.

[Frans]

I think the narration was fantastic. You have a skill there for sure.

When the frame shakes, I get an instant headache.

keep up the good work

[MasterBlaster]

When the frame shakes, I get an instant headache.


That's odd.

[The Branch Doctor]

That's odd.

No, that's Frans.:P :D

[rumination]

Good work Nick. I liked the narration and the captions. I've got to give a rope guide a try one of these days.

[brendonv]

I've got to give a rope guide a try one of these days.

Do it!

When Carl was at my house, I gave his a try. He joked and said "Don't fall up the rope". My first pull on the rope I was amazed. I felt like I weighed 5 pounds.

Def. a nice tool. Just don't have the $$ for it right now.

[top hopper]

Ha- that was amusing!! :D :lol:

[NickfromWI]

Karina liked the part where I said, "that's kinda funny" then the caption reminds you, "no it isn't."

I think what I MEANT to say was, "that's sortof ironic if you think about it. It's a SLIP knot...but if I jam it down, it doesn't slip!"

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it. I decided at the last second to film it all. I was in my car throwing on a few extra layers before I stepped out of my car, then saw the camera there and instantly thought of the idea.

love
nick

[top hopper]

The captioning was very hard to read. In fact I couldnt read most of it.

But being your first official production, we'll let you slide.

Youve got some potential

[MasterBlaster]

The captioning was very hard to read. In fact I couldnt read most of it.


Same here.

[NickfromWI]

Sonofagun. It shows up super clear on my screen. It's the google vid thing. Anyone know a place where I can store a 350mb vid?

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nick

[NickfromWI]

Might y'all know of a way to fix the blurryness? I have options when I make the movie file. Do you know what these all mean?

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nick

[pantheraba]

I'll be curious to see what you find out. I have had the same problem with google.video...looks great on my screen, blurry on google or youtube. I feel sure the file size is the culprit but uploading (for you) and downloading (for the viewer) and hosting such a large file is time consuming and a resource hog.

[rumination]

Try www.revver.com . The videos seem to come out much more clear. Here's one of mine as an example:

http://www.revver.com/watch/291932/

[top hopper]

Nick- You can seed it to me and I'll see if I can put it up on my website.
Im not sure about size limitations, but I'll give it a shot.

[NickfromWI]

I'm giving revver a shot. If it's no better than google vid, I'll send it over to you, hopper.

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nick

[pantheraba]

Leon...that looked good...good quality and cool drop.

[NickfromWI]

I tried revver a few weeks ago but since I had crappy connection speeds (since I was stealing it from neighbors) it wouldn't work. I'm uploading it now and will post the link soon to see if it is any better.

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nick

[NickfromWI]

Blech...check out this email i got from revver an hour ago....

Dear arayan,

Howdy! We love your video, "Nick Climbing in the Angeles", but are you sure you have the rights to the music? We need a little info before we can put your video online. Please respond to this message and include any information that will help us verify that you own or have permission to use this music in your video.

Alternately, you could re-edit the video with royalty-free music and resubmit. Go here for suggestions on royalty-free music sources. Rock!

Visit the Revver blog for updates - http://blog.revver.com

I think I'll just respond..."yes, i have the rights."

Darnit!

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nick

[High Scale]

How about, http://photobucket.com/ ?

Just a thought.

[NickfromWI]

Photobucket has a 5 minute time limit on their vids.

[High Scale]

Damn.

[gf beranek]

for some reason I can not get the vids to play on that google site