{"id":17969,"date":"2013-01-31T04:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2013-01-31T04:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T12:30:39","slug":"dorks-on-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/dorks-on-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorks On A Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you strap a couple of GoPros onto the bottom of the B-24 you&#8217;ve talked your way aboard? There&#8217;s only one way to find out!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxMeg3nXM0U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLast Memorial Day my friend Bruce Bullis (Adobe video engineering) and I managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collingsfoundation.org\/cf_schedule-wof.htm\">ride a vintage bomber<\/a> out of Moffett Field. Bruce charmed the GoPro folks into lending us a couple of cameras that we could mount on the outside of the plane, and we carried a Canon 5D Mk II and our iPhones aboard the plane.<br \/>\nLessons learned, in brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wind is a bitch. The tail-mounted GoPro got blown upwards almost immediately. I&#8217;ll spare you 15 minutes of extremely close-up footage of an airplane&#8217;s tail.\n<\/li>\n<li>SLR video is hard. I&#8217;m not used to the Mk II (my &#8220;vintage&#8221; 5D doesn&#8217;t shoot video), and I found it really hard to compose &#038; focus shots via the LCD panel. That&#8217;s especially true in tight quarters, like the rear plexiglass gun turret where I kept bonking with my lens. (This was all while trying not to fall out the open windows, or through the bomb bay doors, etc.) At least I&#8217;m happy with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157629938001192\/show\/\">the stills we captured<\/a>.\n<li>Video stabilization can work wonders but isn&#8217;t a silver bullet. The video embedded above was greatly improved by the Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro CS6, but some movements still produce that &#8220;jelly cam&#8221; effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you strap a couple of GoPros onto the bottom of the B-24 you&#8217;ve talked your way aboard? There&#8217;s only one way to find out! Last Memorial Day my friend Bruce Bullis (Adobe video engineering) and I managed to ride a vintage bomber out of Moffett Field. Bruce charmed the GoPro folks into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}