Nick Churchill

Video Killed the Radio Star

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:06:57 GMT

Well this Easter weekend (Happy Easter all) found me rooting around my bulging addons folder looking for something new to play with, what did I find...Fraps! While having purchased a licence a couple of years ago and updating the software when it becomes available, I'd never actually sat down and attempted to make a short film.

So armed with a cup of coffee and a pack of chocolate digestives I proceeded to compile the next Hollywood blockbuster.

So how easy can it be? Not at all it seems! Firstly don't adjust your TrackIR settings prior to recording, watching your film back is not a lot of fun when it looks like your head is rotating on frictionless castors in the video. Secondly have a plan and in that plan have a timescale, nobody wants to watch a long recording of a simulator flight, less so with the compression of You Tube if that's where you choose to broadcast it from. Finally have a plan...did I mention that already? Yes well it's important!

Having ignored the above I went ahead and created what can only be called (by me) a masterpiece, if Mr Hughes had still been around he'd have tipped his hat in acknowledgment of my fine cinematic debut.

So without further ado, dim the lights take your arm from around your girl/boy, plant it firmly in the popcorn, sit back and enjoy...

Ok, so maybe it wasn't as good as I led you to believe, but what the hell, it was a lot of fun making the film. Now I can place fraps back in the folder from whence it came, happy to know that I gave it a shot and I don't have to bother again for another few years...did I hear somebody in the audience behind me say phew??

Who am I?

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:55:00 GMT

Who am I?

A question I frequently ask myself, but have yet to supply a conclusive answer.

What am I doing here?

Again a question I ask often and have yet to field a satisfactory reply.

Why do I need a blog?

Wait and see, I'll back soon!

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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:30:51 GMT

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Book List: Book List

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:34:20 GMT

R.G. Grant: FLIGHT
100 years of aviation.
NH Birch and A E Bramson: Flight Briefing for Pilots Volume 1
An introductory manual of flying training.
Alex Henshaw: Sigh for a Merlin
Sir Alex Henshaws account of life as a Spitfire test pilot.
Alexander McKee: Strike from the Sky
The Battle of Britain story.
Alex Henshaw: The Flight of the Mew Gull
Sir Alex Henshaws account of flying in the 1930's and his record breaking flight from London to Cape Town.
Martin Middlebrook: The Nuremberg Raid
On the night of 30-31 March 1944 R.A.F Bomber Command took off on what should have been a routine "maximum effort" raid on Nuremberg, it turned into a major disaster...
P.J. Carisella & James W. Ryan: Who Killed the Red Baron
Terry Gwynn-Jones: Wild Blue Yonder
Flying stories of amazement and wonder.