Suggestions for GA youtube/vimeo video

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If you could suggest the content for videos to be produced for youtube/vimeo/etc, by a general aviation aircraft manufacturer, what type of videos would you like to see? For example, a history of the company, innovations/model changes, a tour of the factory, time-lapse video of a plane being built, optional aircraft equipment demonstrations, a video owner's manual, maintenance/troubleshooting, misc educational (specify), product frequently asked questions, beautyshots of the aircraft in flight, or video edited picture-in-picture with in-plane cameras as if watching a simulator. These are only examples, additional suggestions are welcome.

So what type of video would you like to see? Your suggestions may very well turn into video, so fire away :)
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Video owner's manual and maintenance/troubleshooting would certainly help when learning a new airplane and when choice what airplane you'll be flying.
 
MachFly said:
Video owner's manual and maintenance/troubleshooting would certainly help when learning a new airplane and when choice what airplane you'll be flying.
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Thanks :) With all the views, I would have expected more responses but that's the way it goes I guess.
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agitatorxmedia said:
If you could suggest the content for videos to be produced for youtube/vimeo/etc, by a general aviation aircraft manufacturer, what type of videos would you like to see?
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For example, a history of the company,
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No - can read about that.

innovations/model changes, a tour of the factory, time-lapse video of a plane being built,
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Not interesting to me. Perhaps others might find some of that interesting.

optional aircraft equipment demonstrations, a video owner's manual, maintenance/troubleshooting,
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Yes to all of the above. Video shots of the inside and outside; what is visibility like in the pattern? Steady slow pan of a camera inside a cockpit of a plane in flight is something that helps me decide whether I'd like to look further at that model. How tight or roomy is the cockpit with pilot and passengers aboard? A video of the model in question and a comparison video showing same people in some well known models most people would be familiar with (Cessna, Cherokee) would be useful.

misc educational (specify), product frequently asked questions, beautyshots of the aircraft in flight, or video edited picture-in-picture with in-plane cameras as if watching a simulator. These are only examples, additional suggestions are welcome.
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These might be OK, but none seem terribly compelling.

So what type of video would you like to see? Your suggestions may very well turn into video, so fire away :)
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Have to think about it. So far not much to suggest other than some of the items already mentioned. A video of a typical preflight for the aircraft model(s) might not win any academy awards, but might be helpful training-wise and provide a way to show off unique aspects of the aircraft at the same time.
 
agitatorxmedia said:
Thanks :) With all the views, I would have expected more responses but that's the way it goes I guess.
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Thanks guys & gals :) I know the ratio of registered users to lurkers is usually large so I appreciate the feedback. Any further suggestions are welcome, the goal is to produce video that pilots actually want to watch :)
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Just a tip for anybody making their own videos. Progressive video modes are better than interlaced modes, i.e., 720p, or 1080-30p is better than 1080-60i when it comes to grabbing stuff in motion. The difference works like this: in interlaced mode, a screen's worth of information is captured first with vertical lines 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc and then comes back and grabs lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc. So one field is odd lines, one field is even lines, two fields making a frame that happens approximately 60 times a second in 60i mode.

With progressive video modes (like 720p or 1080-30p), each line of each frame of information is captured sequentially; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

The problem with interlaced video modes from a resolution standpoint is that the object in motion moves between fields. When an interlaced video gets displayed, it has to be "de-interlaced" - there are various ways of doing that, all of which involve degrading the resolution. You would think that 1080 lines of vertical resolution would be better than 720 lines, and that might be true with a static shot, but it's not necessarily true with an object in motion. By the time you deinterlace 1080i video of an object in motion, overall resolution may be less than 720p. Add in the fact that a camera bolted to an airplane may be vibrating, and you get even worse video.

ESPN shoots in 720p mode and it's not just because it involves less bandwidth. Each frame of video is a complete snapshot in time so fast moving objects are always captured as individual snapshots rather than trying to patch a screen of odd and even lines back together. If you've ever noticed jagged edge effects on diagonal elements in video (like a wing at an angle), you've noticed interlacing effects.

Another thing to bear in mind is that youtube usually de-interlaces video sent up to them, i.e., take 60i video and make it 30p, and if they happen to start that process on the wrong line your video appears degraded. They also typically do a 4 or 5:1 compression stomp on anything you send up so if you're sending up interlaced, low-bitrate encoded video, your video looks like crap by the time youtube gets done with it.

So the bottom line is, set up your gopro or whatever camera in 720-60p or 1080-30p and you'll get better results :)
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