On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > Speaking of which, was anyone in PTG ever informed that it was on > them to produce these? That wasn't my impression at the time. I think it was a case of nothing actually being arranged. The "sign up" was to see whether there would be interest. As for who needed to take the initiative, make a decision, follow through, I doubt anyone got that far. We are an organization full of great ideas, but a bit slim on people who take the initiative and follow through. In any case, there is a lot of footage "in the can" and if I can get access to any of it, I'd be happy to pay for the privilege. I have the definite impression that Birkett is happy to share the material, but I don't think he is willing to volunteer the hundreds of hours of editing and computer work to make a full DVD happen, let alone get into the DVD publishing business (he did give us his time to make and post what is up on his site). I, too, submitted a number of suggestions for further study, including things like looking at a traveling hammer vs a "traveled" one, a hammer head glued a bit askew vs a "well-burned" one, a loose bridge pin, lots of things. We all need one of those high speed videocams to play with <G>. At this point, data storage makes longer videos at high definition more feasible. The size of the hard drives he was porting to was a big limiting factor in how long a video could be made. With 1T drives costing "next to nothing" these days, and bigger ones available, the ten second clip becomes more feasible. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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