Show us your....Pics! V2

[Clif]

Hey Al,

did you see my lame-arse movie attempt of that footage of my mate and I I told you about from an Indo trip a decade ago? I used the movie maker on Mac. I had to re-shoot the footage with my camera from a screen. I shoulda got your help but wanted to have a go myself first.

http://www.vimeo.com/3822028

Can you put moving pictures in this thread?

[still here]

siiiiiick!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deesee]

Hey AL - great photo at Belco bowl. Tiles make the best sound!

[oldman]

Yeah, nice work clif. Some fine waves well surfed.

Lighting made my brain hurt trying to make it out sometimes, but very nice.

[wanto]

Thats fantastic cliff. Why did you have to shoot it off a scree? I'd love to see a better copy.

and can't you edit in some priceless tim bonython commentary?

[oldman]

hhhmmmmm. Palm Beach commentary was obviously the same as the Cronulla show. Not surprised, Tim sounded like he was on auto-pilot. Probably seen the footage 10,000 times.

[Clif]

hey fellas

The footage had to be shot off a particular laptop screen because it is the only device I have found that can play the grimy old disc that the footage was originally transferred onto. The disc also has the original clip in DAT format which I am going to have to find someone to convert. This particular laptop is the only device that has played the disc for years. So i got lucky.

Speaking of luck, funny story about getting hold of the footage.

We had a DVD made up in Meulaboh but forgot to go back and get it, and trekked off to Nias. And on the ferry realised that we had forgotten the footage. We were bummed but not too worried, FFS we were on our way to Lagundri and sitting on the roof of the ferry with three Irish girls! So the footage was lost in Indo for years.

Then my mate who was on the feral trip with me was on a boat with some crew off the coast of Sumatra some years later, about five, and the captain pulled out this disc he had come across and showed the boys one night. Said he had "been looking for this right".

Well, Andy couldn't believe his eyes.

When Andy got back to the Goldie we sat down and watched the footage over a slab. We watched it time and again laughing our heads off at our luck.

crazy huh?

[lessormore]

I assume the video in DAT format is from a VCD.If you have a Mac with Toast on it ,create a "Video CD" from the formats menu,drop the DAT file onto it,highlight the added file and click export.Quicktime will open and give you options. Select DV and save the file.It will then be usable in other programs(Imovie etc).Because it has originally been put into a VCD format it has been compressed to MPG1 format,which is a lower quality conversion to fit on a standard cd disk,as compared to a MPG2 file found on DVD disks so you will never regain the quality of the original camera tape ,but it will look a lot better than filming it from a laptop.Another option is to use VLC(video watching program) and use a screen capture program called Snapz Pro, which will record whatever you are playing on your Mac into a Q/T movie. Hope this helps.

[boardscape avalon]

Hey Al,

did you see my lame-arse movie attempt of that footage of my mate and I I told you about from an Indo trip a decade ago? I used the movie maker on Mac. I had to re-shoot the footage with my camera from a screen. I shoulda got your help but wanted to have a go myself first.

http://www.vimeo.com/3822028

Can you put moving pictures in this thread?

GREAT MOVIE , MUSIC. looks good fuzzy gives it something...

[Clif]

lessormore ... THANKS! I can do that! I can get the programs for free and will try. If i can do it I will then make a version that is clearer but keep the fuzzy dark version because as avalon points out it has its charms haha. I am going to get a French voice over and enter it into a surf film festival. You know, ART, and all that I can see the offers of $$$$$, free skinny jeans and insouciant ladies affections now.

maybe not

[marcus]

nice one cliff

[steve shearer]

I told you about from an Indo trip a decade ago?

Here's a counterpoint to remote Indo barrels.
Tandem surfing knee high waves in the Richmond river.
Koori families playing in the shorey, backpackers and SUP's.....so relaxing and satisfying sliding a few with my daughter on the front.
Wonder if she'll remember this when she grows up.
http://www.vimeo.com/3843655

[tiger]

That's a great little vid Steve. Good to see she's followed her old mans lead, being a goofy-footer .

[steve shearer]

When she first stood up, she stood up natural and I made her change feet.......hmmmm.....oh well she seems used to it now.

[Lucky Al]

i want to look at clif's and steve's vids too but come to find out i have to download a later version of flash player and the download is taking bloody forever. how'd you go with getting that file onto your computer, clif?

[Surfin Turf]

Tandem surfing knee high waves .

fantastic stuff steve ... memories for me because I taught my little brother the same way out tiny DY point when he was 4 ... I had an 11'6" Keyo that the late great Fred Lister gave me ... and stuck him on the front the same way you were doing with your little one ...

I taught my 2 girls by pushing them onto waves and my youngest used to ride tiny waves all the way to shore in a crouch and still holding the rails when she was about 4 ... this is her at noosa a couple of years back ... she spent hours and hours everyday for a week cruising those ankle biters to herself while the carnage went on at the point ...

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[Grooter]

^^^

Matt Trigger (son of one of the co-founders of the Trigger Brothers) has a mal with hand rails glued to the sides up the front. I've seen him surf small waves with his little one on the front of the board clinging on at Pt Leo. At least I think it is him.

Awesome sight, definitely a plan for the future for me when my daughter gets a bit older.

[Lucky Al]

damn this is getting me excited about surfing and our boy already, i'm going to have to chill out and hold it in.