Club Ride, November 10-13

nice pics Jake! looks like a good time

awsome pics guys, this is Graham by the way, just wanted to say thanks for being so nice and helpfull over the weekend.

Wish I could have gone on the ride. Great pics and it looks like ya'l had a great time.

Big Red wrote: Where are the movies?

Just so yall know, its not simply a matter of just copy and paste.  I have to convert all movie files to a streaming format so that the webserver can push them out, and resize them so they are a reasonable size.....the one movie is probably close to 50 mb by itself.

So I have to take each one, and use the microsoft encoder to reformat the movie, which requires several passes through the file.  Then I gotta copy the file to the server (which takes some time for each file, even with broadband) and then open and edit whatever web page is going to be the link to the movie itself.  (Case, you getting all this?)

The pics have to be put in one directory, sorted by timestamp and then renamed so they are sequential (renamemaster.exe, thanks for finding that one, AL) and then I go through and rotate any that are sideways, then I run the jpegsize.exe to size them all to same size.  Once that's done, I use EGG (easy gallery generator) to make all the thumbnails and the gallery pages with the forward, back and thumbnail link.  Once the gallery is generated, I copy the gallery to the website (that alone took nearly an hour for Brad's and Jake's pics), then edit the master pics page to add the link to the gallery.

I got the pics done last night, late, and I will try to get the vids either tonight or tomorrow night.

Not whining, just wanted yall to know that its not as simple as it may seem.

cj8lvr wrote: I saw the pictures last night and they all worked fine but they have dissapeared this morning.  What happened?  No link.

Works fine for me from Army network.....

I dont know what you mean by "no link"......the link is in the post above, and on the trailpics page.

??????

cj8lvr wrote: When I go to the link above, it works fine but when I start out on our homepage and click on the Trail Pictures link, there is not a link in that bottom left box for Windrock pics (Jake's and Brad's or Al's) Who knows.

It's there for me.

BTW:  How do you copy your files over to a CD such that the files retain their original time and date stamp?  Mine didn't, which is why Doc had to separate mine from the others.

Thanks,

Al

 

Edited by Big Red

Big Red wrote: How do you copy your files over to a CD such that the files retain their original time and date stamp?  Mine didn't, which is why Doc had to separate mine from the others.

Doc told me how.  When you burn the CD, select the files to burn directly from the camera memory card.  The files on the CD will have the same time/date as the files on the camera memory stick.

The down side of this is that you will get every last photo you took.  Many times I take several photos of one thing.  Also, you lose your ability to do any post processing (like cropping).

Does anyone know how to save the photos to your computer, edit them and still maintane the original time/date stamp?

Brad

What kind of birfs were you guys running and what kind of crawl ratio/tire size? I want come up and ride with you guys some day. :D 

alabamatoy wrote: Big Red wrote: Where are the movies? Just so yall know, its not simply a matter of just copy and paste.  I have to convert all movie files to a streaming format so that the webserver can push them out, and resize them so they are a reasonable size.....the one movie is probably close to 50 mb by itself. So I have to take each one, and use the microsoft encoder to reformat the movie, which requires several passes through the file.  Then I gotta copy the file to the server (which takes some time for each file, even with broadband) and then open and edit whatever web page is going to be the link to the movie itself.  (Case, you getting all this?) The pics have to be put in one directory, sorted by timestamp and then renamed so they are sequential (renamemaster.exe, thanks for finding that one, AL) and then I go through and rotate any that are sideways, then I run the jpegsize.exe to size them all to same size.  Once that's done, I use EGG (easy gallery generator) to make all the thumbnails and the gallery pages with the forward, back and thumbnail link.  Once the gallery is generated, I copy the gallery to the website (that alone took nearly an hour for Brad's and Jake's pics), then edit the master pics page to add the link to the gallery. I got the pics done last night, late, and I will try to get the vids either tonight or tomorrow night. Not whining, just wanted yall to know that its not as simple as it may seem.

what am i getting myself into??

MAN!! Really wish I could have made this one. I need to modify our training schedule to be able to get more trail rides in!    Seems like most of our rides are weekends on which we have the Marines in for drill

Mike

Finally got the videos posted.

If only I could wheel instead of work (however I do like to eat)....oh well looks like a great time....and to think I'll be out of town while everybody goes to gray rock ARGH!!

dontoy wrote: ...after all this was the first trip for the FrankNTruck.

FrankNTruck?  I thought its name was "Donstrosity"?

Al, did you figure out how to make a CD with the files having the correct timestamps?