First flight of Parker's Public Laboratory balloon
Channel: Parker Higgins
Date: 2012-04-14

It's not much to look at, but here's a video made from the shots we took at Alta Plaza park in San Francisco last Sunday, on the maiden voyage of my Public Laboratory balloon mapping kit. We weren't looking to map, just wanted to see what kind of photos we got. Now we know it was a bit too windy that day.

Audio is a 1913 version of the Hungarian Rag played by Pietro Deiro, a recording in the public domain. More information is available here: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/01/hungarian-rag-pietro-deiro-1913/

Video was encoded at 6 fps from a folder full of JPGs off the camera using mencoder, with the following command:

mencoder "mf://*.JPG" -mf fps=6 -o flight.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

Audio was added with:

mencoder -ovc copy -audiofile PietroDeiro-HungarianRag.mp3 -oac copy flight.avi -o flightsound.avi