AirVenture 2012 Webcam Official Thread

[Wrongway Feldman]

let me know how it works. http://www.haydenworld.com/jwplayer/AV_cam_airshow.htm

It took about 74 seconds to load player. @ 12 Mbps Downstream Speed
Works great !!

Now, if only the camera man could stay with the with the action we'd be fine.
Feed a little crowd/airplane/pyro audio in with the mix and it would be ready for ESPN.

Thanks, Great Job

[Jim Hann]

Now, if only the camera man could stay with the with the action we'd be fine.
Feed a little crowd/airplane/pyro audio in with mix and it would be ready for ESPN.

+1 on both of these! Thank you Paul and Todd!

[rcmodelr]

[QUOTE=Wrongway Feldman;20344
Now, if only the camera man could stay with the action we'd be fine.
Feed a little crowd/airplane/pyro audio in with mix and it would be ready for ESPN.

Thanks, Great Job[/QUOTE]

+ many more on this... I recorded the stream, then edited out all the ground shots and times of Night Air Show when camera was pointed away from the action. That cut run-time down from nearly 2 hours to barely 1 hour.

[Jim Hann]

How did you record it?

[MEdwards]

Paul and Todd, thank you. You guys worked incredibly hard to keep up and ahead of everything last week. I didn't see much of it, because I was in Oshkosh and couldn't get any wifi, but from the forum traffic it sounds like you had a full time job and more. Thank you.

One opinion for next year. More like my vote, since I'm sure others will have other ideas. I would have liked it better if the three tower cams just followed a simple pan, back and forth, all the time like they did last year. I tried to talk to the folks back home and tell them what they were seeing, and tell them where to see me or our airplane, but it was pretty much impossible due to the irregular and (to me) unpredictable schedule for moving the cameras.

Again, you guys did a great job and I'm sure many thousands of people watched and appreciated it.

Mike E

[Todd Ritzman]

Paul and Todd, thank you. You guys worked incredibly hard to keep up and ahead of everything last week. I didn't see much of it, because I was in Oshkosh and couldn't get any wifi, but from the forum traffic it sounds like you had a full time job and more. Thank you.

One opinion for next year. More like my vote, since I'm sure others will have other ideas. I would have liked it better if the three tower cams just followed a simple pan, back and forth, all the time like they did last year. I tried to talk to the folks back home and tell them what they were seeing, and tell them where to see me or our airplane, but it was pretty much impossible due to the irregular and (to me) unpredictable schedule for moving the cameras.

Again, you guys did a great job and I'm sure many thousands of people watched and appreciated it.

Mike E

Mike,

Thank you and I am assuming you did see some of the webcams this year. We did try very hard to provide a service that was enjoyable for most users. And yes, we did have a full time job with the cameras, additionally both Paul and I also volunteer in other areas as well during the week as well.

Far as the tours go. Most of the days the cameras were on a tour panning around the grounds, and days with heavier landing or departing traffic, we would allow the cameras to focus on the runways a little more, but still have them pan around the grounds as well. Yesterday, we did park the Warbird camera and the Ultralight camera to look at the runways for departing traffic. The Vintage camera should have been panning the whole show.

I am assuming you were trying to be in the view of the camera when talking to friends or family. All the tower cameras are mounted about 60' up in the air so it would be difficult to define a person through the webstream. Currently the best camera to use to be in the view would be the one at Vintage tower as we have always had that one stop to look at the enterance to the Antique Red Barn. At the end of AirVenture 2011, we did discuss the possibility of adding another camera on the grounds that was mounted lower where people could stand and wave to friends and family. This was put on the back burner for this year due to us totally changing the way the video was being encoded and distributed and costs related to that. We will still consider that idea for furture years and the many other ideas we would like to implement to further expand our coverage of AirVenture.

Todd

[rcmodelr]

How did you record it?

With Stream Recording software called JAKSTA. With Jaksta, if I know a specific stream will be showing something I want to watch, I can schedule Jaksta to record the stream starting at a specific time either for a set number of minutes or until I tell it to stop. If a stream I find has something I want to record, I can start Jaksta, tell it to start monitoring my web access, reload the page with the stream I want to record, and Jaksta will detect when my system starts receiving a "new" stream and start recording the "new" stream until I tell it to stop (or cancel) the stream recording.

I recorded all the AirVenture 2012 Air Shows since I was busy doing other things most days when the show was starting. The only day's Air Show I didn't record was Monday's.

[Todd Ritzman]

It took about 74 seconds to load player. @ 12 Mbps Downstream Speed
Works great !!

Now, if only the camera man could stay with the with the action we'd be fine.
Feed a little crowd/airplane/pyro audio in with the mix and it would be ready for ESPN.

Thanks, Great Job

This was a long week for Tim the camera man (not to be confused with Tim the tool man) that we get our airshow feed from durng the week. He gets daily assignments from the video department of things they have to shoot both for during that day and during that week. I know there were many days he was shooting footage for more that 14 hrs. Additionally it is difficult to find and or follow some of the aircraft during the night. Also, you may have noticed him focusing in on tents during the show, he does this to adjust and calibrate the camera for the changing conditions of ambiant lighting. Additionally he does have some general footage he as to capture for his assignments as well.

Hope this helps explain a little bit why he is not always following the aircraft.

[dklord]

Thanks for the hard work. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the arrivals, the fly-in, and the departures. Along with the audio from LiveATC, I felt like I was almost there. You are indispensible to those of us unable to attend.

God bless you.

[Wrongway Feldman]

This was a long week for Tim the camera man .

I think a lot of things were stressed/stretched to the limit at Airventure 2012.
Electronics & Humans don't function very well in high heat and very cold temperatures.
Case in point: Record 100° in Oshkosh, WI. Breaking a 72 year-old mark of 97°.



Farmers started giving crushed ice to the Chickens so they would stop laying hard boiled eggs. Thats HOT!!
I would like to personally Thank the guy who invented air conditioning.

Thanks for the reply,