CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Questions/Support/Help

The real Katie

(7 posts)
  • Started 9 years ago by Roibeard
  • Latest reply from acsimpson
  • This topic is not resolved

  1. Roibeard
    Member

    Following on from Katie Cycles to School, I strapped cameras to my 14 year old daughter, wished her luck and shoved her into the traffic maelstrom.

    Her route takes in the full gamut possible: 20mph local estate, bus lanes, "family network" back streets, segregated
    cycle tracks, shared paths, and on road cycle lanes (Quality Bicycle Corridor).

    Over three days, we captured some normal footage, including two instances of drivers pulling out from side streets without regard for the little-un (all 5'6" of her).

    Unfortunately, whilst this might be a great follow-up for the PoP video, I don't really have the necessary video editing or YouTube experience to capitalise on it.

    Would any CCE folk care to lend their expertise? It's about 3x 10 mile trips, so about 3 hours of footage, hence I appreciate that this could take many hours (30?) to put into an effective format.

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Presumably she/you can remember where incidents were and scroll through and write down times.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. Roibeard
    Member

    Yep, I've already documented the time points of the changes in infrastructure and any significant events - of which there are actually very few.

    Such as: overtaking stationary bus, using cycle bypass to traffic lights, drivers pulling out. I ignored the tailgating, as it's so common, and in any case doesn't look dramatic with a wide angle lens.

    It's all pretty normal, yet something at which most parents would baulk.

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    If you were able to bung the footage into dropbox our similar I could have a look?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. Roibeard
    Member

    @WC do you have a dropbox account, or would you like me to create one for this purpose?

    The low res versions will fit, however the high res images will be too much for dropbox and would require transfer by physical media.

    Plus ça change - the Uni once had a very high bandwidth, very high latency data transfer to Glasgow, which involved filling a van with tapes. No matter how quick the network connections become, physically moving storage is likely to be superlative!

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. sallyhinch
    Member

    Excellent - I was wondering how you were getting on with this!

    Back when I was doing my IT masters, our tutor always used to say 'never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks going down the M1' Which probably dates me (and him) a bit!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. acsimpson
    Member

    While doing my master's things had moved on a little but the fastest way for me to download anything over 50MB to my flat in central Edinburgh involved a CD and a bus trip to Ricarton. Although you didn't get the pleasure of a modem dial up doing it that way.

    Posted 9 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin