Did you run your trains today?

[starfire700]

I agree that $999 is too much, should be more like $300 to 400.

[pjdog350]

3 or 4 hundred I’d buy them

[pjdog350]

Todays fun!

[Terry]

Mr Dog sent me his old Gopro camera to play with. THANKS!

Here's my 3rd attempt. The first one was 3 seconds of my forehead. The second was about a minute of me trying to get the dog to do somethiong, but she wants nothing to do with the camera.

I put the camera on the roof of a 517 caboose looking backwards.

[pjdog350]

Thanks for the video.

First - There’s a dude in a white suit with a funny black hat trying to break into your train room.
Second - The video shows that you have a very large layout which I like.
Third - Like all GoPro’s they like allot of well placed lighting. Lots of your movie is dark. I have the same problem. I’m looking into some ceiling light to help.
Fourth - How about running the caboose backwards for some where we are going shots? Just a thought.

Thanks for sharing your movie. That’s one of the things I like the most about your forum. Good people and movies! If you just served free beer?

[starfire700]

Good for a start, but you need more lighting on the subject. The camera may be sensing the light from the window wells and stopping-down the exposure, so covering the windows and spots on the layout would make a big difference. Try spot-lighting a corner of the layout with the camera on a tripod and run the train past the camera. I think you will like the results.

[starfire700]

Mr Dog, you videos have come a long way. The new camera has great clarity and you have good lighting. I like your use of a title page, text on the scenes and transitions. It looks like you have the hang of the moviemaker program.

[pjdog350]

Thanks Jim. Working on the third video of all seven of my Lionel Streamline Jr's. Sure is fun.

I went through all my train pictures this morning and found at least 10 pictures I should have used in the M10000 video. Before and after.
I must slow down and be sure I've got the movies complete. I don't like to talk over the pictures I'd rather do text in bold over the pictures. Plus I don't my my mug shot in any of the video's. Working on that. Damn this is fun.

[Terry]

I have a circuit in the ceiling for fans I plan on putting track lighting on. I don't realize how dark it is because I set the spots on the tripods aimed at where I'm working.

We're coming up on a stretch of 110-118 degree days that are perfect for working in the basement.

I did manage to clip the start of the video off so I'm learning.

[pjdog350]

Jim told me about Micro soft HD movie maker pro. I got it for only $ 14.00. It is absolutely great. It’s allot of fun and is pretty easy to learn.

It’s a great movie editor and you can easily see what you doing. The hero 3 does not have a display screen to work with. So you must link the hero 3 to your phone to the GoPro. The hero 8 has a display screen so it’s allot easier to use.

Anyway stay with it. I love seeing your work and all you sweet trains.

DOG

[starfire700]

Like anything there is a learning curve. The important thing is to have fun while doing it. I usually make some mistakes and discover things that should have been included, but there is always "next time", always another video to make. I had a dog fall over in the video I am currently working on and decided just to include a caption that he was sleeping, rather than re-shoot the whole scene. I have had unexpected crashes and run-away locos, but have used these clips to add a little humor to the production.

[pjdog350]

That's interesting Jim. While collecting videos of the 1700's this morning I had the last train (A chrome & Red) set cause trouble. Seems one of the vestibules was not free enough and causing that car to jump the track? Never had that before. It' always something.

[starfire700]

Someone once said when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

[Terry]

I've been busy, but have managed to go down and run the trains a few times. The handheld with the O gauge is nice. I can sit on the couch and run the trains.

[early0electric]

Once a day lately I've been going down and doing a few laps with some items that haven't made it up to my train room.