Sunset
Always wanted to do this and finally tried it yesterday evening. I put the video camera on a tripod, pointed it in direction west at about 5pm and started rolling. I left the camera alone for an hour while it was filiming the setting sun. At 6pm I brought the camera inside and download 10GB worth of data from the last hour. I compressed it down to a 1 min 30 secs AVI file (still 300MB in size). Next the video was converted to FLV (the Flash video file format) and scaled down to 480×360 pixles with the audio removed. The resulting file was 4.2MB. Finally I wrapped all this into a Flex application using Flex 2.0’s dead-simple mx:VideoDisplay class. The progressbar tells you how much data you’ve fetched from my server already. The whole video runs for 1 min 30 secs.
So, here it is. Close the blinds, move closer to the screen and it’s almost like you’re here. If only we had a more exciting sunset yesterday evening …
[...] few months ago I posted a compressed movie of a typical Tesuque sunset. This morning we were at it again and captured the setting moon while the sun was rising on the [...]