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[djellison]

OK - there is SO MUCH footage for me to play with via the JPL video catalogue that I'm struggling to trim it down to a sensible DVD Video size.

I'm thinking, currently, of ripping it down to 360 x 240 resolution videos, probably Quicktime H264 format...30fps for most live footage, 15fps for press conf's etc. - BUT - some may not like that compression idea - so I'm open to others.

Bottom line - I want to get as much of the 'missing 3 weeks' between Spirit Landing and Opportunity landing, expecially all the live events captured and onto something that we can all share.

Any options / suggestions, much appreciated.

Doug

[djellison]

Current shopping list - but what I'm doing is going through and 'ranking' the Press Confs based on the matching press release for each one - and will cull them until I have more like 15 hours and about $250-300 worth of duplicating fees from the JPL media guys. I have to make the project financially sensible, and price it at a figure that I know will recoop my costs of getting the footage, and burning the media. Currently, I'm hoping for 50-100 sales at £20 per two disk set. It wont include ALL of the below....I'm going to cull probably the 6 least interesting items on the DVD-Rom disk. The press releases and their imagery will all be included for the peroid in question, which is now the title for this project..

"Spirit : Impact to Egress"

Now - before you start going "can't you add this video." etc etc...each clip on that list is costing between $20 and $25 - so I have to be realistic and a little more modest in the scope of this first project - keep the costs manageable. I would love to have every conference etc - but it's going to be too much footage and too great a cost. Perhaps - if this is really succesfull - I'll try and do something like it for Mars Pathfinder, and perhaps all the Pre Launch ATLO footage for MER I can find as well...who knows....depends how worthwhile this becomes

HOWEVER... I2E will include EVERY live commentary session ( including EDL, first images, egress etc ) and the key press confs ( Post landing, post first images, first Pancam postcard, MGS sees Spirit, Post Egress ) plus as much as I can afford / fit on the disc.

Format will be Region 0 NTSC DVD for Disc 1, and then PROBABLY ( but not for certain ) 360 x 240 H264 Movs AND Xvid versions on the Disc 2 DVD Rom.

Only real decision in terms of contents that I need from potential buyers is this...

On the DVD-Video, there will be the 2hrs+ of EDL commentary, plus room for one other 1hr-ish event

Which do you want that to be? The Egress commentary, the first comms pass commentary, or something else. I tried to change this threads poll but I think I borked it up...so just comment below


Doug

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