Riding the Zambezi River-New Show on Beechbrook

[goddi]

New show on Beechbrook:

http://www.beechbrook.com/pte/

Title: Riding the Zambezi River (MP4 format, not EXE).

Location: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

Frame Size: 780x432, MP4.

Videos: Yes. VCR tape was converted to digital.

Size of file: 68 Mbs.

Run time: 10:04.

Additional info:

This show is of our rafting trip down the Zambezi River in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in 1994. I finally have the ability to convert and edit the original VCR tape to digital and to insert it into PTE. This was our first trip to do the rafting and we returned a few years later and did it again. The video was taken by the rafting company. I edited it and inserted the text and music.

This show contains all video except for the first and last slide. Due to its low quality, the video was put into PTE with a frame size of 780x432 and published as an MP4 to reduce the file size. The size of the EXE would be 200 Mbs and the MP4 is only 68 Mbs. And with an MP4 file, you can play it directly on your TV or through your media center box to your TV!!!

Don't get too close to the screen or you might get wet!

Comments and critiques are welcomed.

Gary Oddi

[mhwarner]

Well, I rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon last April and we had some pretty good rapids, but I don't think any of them were quite like the ones in your video. Very cool! I hope you weren't one of the people who fell out of the raft. Thanks for sharing. Can't believe you went back and did it a second time. Good for you!

[David Porter]

Wow Gary, that was a great video and you could not miss a second of it. It's good to know that PTE can reproduce it in a reasonable format and file size although I would love to see it full screen in best quality. Would putting it on a DVD give you that or did it not have the quality to start with?

[goddi]

Well, I rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon last April and we had some pretty good rapids, but I don't think any of them were quite like the ones in your video. Very cool! I hope you weren't one of the people who fell out of the raft. Thanks for sharing. Can't believe you went back and did it a second time. Good for you!

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Mary,

We'd go back and do it again, without hesitation. We wish we had been tossed out but somehow, we hung on. My wife describes the water as 'delicious', and it was. The hardest part was climbing down the canyon and up the 300' cliffs at the end.

Gary

[goddi]

Wow Gary, that was a great video and you could not miss a second of it. It's good to know that PTE can reproduce it in a reasonable format and file size although I would love to see it full screen in best quality. Would putting it on a DVD give you that or did it not have the quality to start with?

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Mick,

Glad you liked it. The original version was on a VHS tape. Back then, there was no HD. The conversion process converted it to 720x480 so there is not much hope to get a better quality for full screen. It gets pixelated. I have not tried to put it on a DVD...maybe I will just to see what happens. I did the best I knew how to at least get it into PTE. />

I enjoy traveling and sharing the experience with others to encourage them to also go see what is out there.

Thanks... Gary

ADDED LATER: I made a DVD of the show but there was no improvement over the MP4.