Video clips by jr, lcgm8, mafa and others

[Disc Golf Live]

Happy new year to everyone.

Thanks to the support of the PDGA, full episodes of Disc Golf Live video magazine will now be posted online. While our primary goal is still to provide a free program for broadcast on public access TV stations to spread the good word about disc golf to the uninitiated, online postings will help bring DGL to established players and the online viewer base. We've got free program DVDs for anyone who wants to submit the show for local broadcast, and we can also set folks up with a resource for easy postal-free downloading.

The first part of this episode (39) features the Presidents Cup. Part two features a Guardians of Recreation bit, action from the Rose City Open, and action from the Tali Open. (Thanks, JR!)

Here are the links:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JtJFDnnHw

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQEzvo2wAfQ

Best regards,

Joe

[JR]

Joe lcgm8 and mafa from this board were on camera too. The local club Talin tallaajat helped too. It was a team effort and i hope it sets a precedent for other clubs as well. I think everyone would benefit from more videos done by larger video crews. It would seem that we are gonna get a larger video crew together for one event next year I hope we can do new things and pull them off with the extra crew.

[JR]

Scandinavian Open round 1 group 35: http://www.youtube.com/user/lcgm8#p/u/1/Nx5nWW-grX8
The second part of that round: http://www.youtube.com/user/lcgm8#p/u/0/m5J1EkNPdvs

[JR]

Scandinavian Open 2010 day one game play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWWA4LE-xo
Finnish Open round 2 part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqiITylQExU
FO round 2 part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP3G8A7m4UY
FO round 2 part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM7uVLAyJrA
FO round 2 part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji4PKC9DAFo

The lighting conditions made filming difficult with the gear we had.

[Craig Smolin]

thanks for some sunday morning disc golf vids ... especially here in Connecticut where there is more than a foot of snow on the ground ... and with a sick 16 month old son, my odds of actually playing have been drastically reduced ...

[JR]

Hope he gets well soon. We have a foot and a half of snow but we got a warm spell for Finland at 35F so i get to play yay! Here is some more footage FO round 2 part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLghEzfVxc

[JR]

lcgm8 is on a roll with his new faster editing machine and we all get to enjoy the results
Finnish Open round 2 part 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2riK_ajgI

[Steady 26542]

I look forward to coming to the sight and then when I see another one of your videos it makes my day. THANKS!!

[JR]

I'm glad that we can provide relief to winter boredom. There's more stuff in the works. Lcgm8 is fiddling around with the new software to find the best balance of gamma, brightness and color corrections because the lighting on different rounds was nightmarish going from 6.30AM morning sun low over the horizon blazing into the camera at times to late in the night and continuously changing sunshine from between a lot of clouds. Not to mention very shadowy forests and shooting from lighted place into those shadows and vice versa. Non movie quality cameras just don't handle those kinds of conditions well. I had nightmare of a time with two hands flying on the camera setting adjusting zoom out and in while adjusting brightness manually trying to keep the camera steady while panning three dimensionally trying to center the picture on discs flying by. Changing exposure time going from light to dark places and vice versa adjusting the brightness for the finer results. I was overworked and stressed out because i made about six adjustments during each throw on average. At 15x zoom it ain't easy. Schooling the hard way

Now that lcgm8 has a faster editing machine the process of editing is faster and he's gonna improve on the quality of the videos he's released of the FO because the source material isn't served by the first set of settings he used. I'm working on indexing the files and cutting points of the second of three non Finnish events we filmed last year so that once lcgm8 is ready with the optimum settings he can start pumping out more vids at a faster rate. We're in a bit of a hurry because this season is knocking at the door and the first event is when this event should be ready for. So look for more stuff fairly soon. Lcgm8 ain't ready with the FO releases either. And i think there might be some material from the SO coming up as well. And there's one other foreign event we can't touch yet until this second one is in production for sales along with the SO.

[JR]

Finnish Open round 3 part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-6nmsbUZrc

When the storm came...

[Monocacy]

Finnish Open round 3 part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-6nmsbUZrc

When the storm came...

The wind was insane on hole #4. It looked like a force field was repeatedly throwing Jussi’s putts out of the basket. Nice touch showing his long putt from the previous day.

I rather enjoyed watching a pro player celebrate making a 10’ putt like he won the World Cup. Does that make me a bad person?

[JR]

No it doesn't. The guys were talking it being a ridiculous weather for throwing and contemplating on DNFfing. And i agreed. It was difficult to keep the camera steady when it wasn't just the camera that was being pushed and pulled by the changing wind speeds. I too was knocked about by the wind and you can see it in the footage. The guy celebrating won his junior division in the Finnish Championships last year so yeah pro caliber.

[Wyno]

Just barked out a laugh that woke up my daughter, from seeing Jussi put for par on 4 - priceless

[vto]

That's my home course, and it is very common to have a lot of wind there Ok, maybe the day was slightly windier than average

Actually on Saturday I was thinking that where's the wind we usually have. People won't get the full Meri-Toppila experience without the wind. Then Sunday delivered.

[JR]

The sea will do that to you. Juho Parviainen (Big D8 second place) commented something about normituuli or norm wind. He made many laser line no drop in height Firebird putts into stiff winds headwinds included. Some putts were from very long ranges. It was that bad.