Feb/090
Enough Already. There's work to do
Skiing got ditched in favor of keeping warm today. It's very cold up here in the mountains in the winter. -15C at the top of Grande Montets yesterday. That's finger numbingly cold. Not really the time of year for ski touring.
Today was more productively spent making this film. Mark had a journalist from a prestigious UK broadsheet on his course last week, and there's a chance this film or a part of it at least will make it onto the newspaper's website.
Intermediate All Mountain Ski Course 30th Jan 2009 from Chris D on Vimeo.
Now that I've got a Vimeo PLUS account I can upload full High Definition movies to the Internet. That's about 10 MB per minute of film, so it's better than having to pay for the hosting myself.
(The science bit: Because HDTV requires so much more data than normal PAL resolution TV (from the olden days of cathode ray tubes), engineers devised a way to broadcast TV signals as compressed digital information rather than directly over analog waves. They defined two video formats for HDTV called 720p and 1080i, which refer to the number of horizontal lines used to produce the image. It allows broadcast of super-sharp high definition moving images which look great on modern flat screen Televisions.)
In short, I can share large movie files with other people by uploading them to vimeo, which also produces a handy viewing page for my client.
