Video Footage from the ELR Diesel Gala
 

Some footage of engines at the gala:

http://www.nymrfootage.co.uk/other_railway_footage.htm

It was my first diesal gala at the ELR and I was very impressed :)

The films are absolutely great Iain. Thanks for making them available. :)

Thanks Iain, Wasn't a bad gala was it? maybe I will meet up with u sometime there. I was at irwell vale and Burrs

I was very impressed. It was only my second visit to the railway, the first being the Steam Gala in mid June. I will be making more visits in the future. May see you around....

BTW where is Burrs. I don't know the area that well.

There are some great locations for getting side on views of the engines.

Burrs is a country park between Bury and Summerseat. It contains two viaducts and a footpath crossing the line on the embankment, all good places for photography. There are plans to build a halt there, which will be good news for The Brown Cow (the local pub, very nice it is too).

What video camera do you use? I use a Panasonic NVGS250, which I got on-line for £500 inc. P&P, the extra batteries and firewire cable cost an extra £100.

PS nice footage shame about the download time :(

:confused:

I had no problem with the download.

Are you on broadband?

The camcorder is a Sony HC1E High Definition Camcorder. Whereas a standard camcorder records 720x576 pixels, the HC1E records 1980x1080 pixels and looks simply stunning on large plasma or LCD displays.

The HC1E is around £1200 but Sony have just released a small higher definition camcarder but with the same resoluiton for £800-£900 (HC3E).

With the camcorder being high def, all footage is shot in anamorphic widescreen.

If you are not using broadband then the download times for the "high res" footage will takes ages as the files are pretty big even though I've reduced the resolution to 1280x720. That's why there are also low res files for people on dial up connections. The low res files could be made smaller but the quality does suffer so I tend to use a 'Medium' setting for converting the files to WMV format which results in a file size of around 2MB to 5MB depending upon running time.

I'm on BT's standard ADSL broadband package and they have upgraded my broadband connection from 2Mb/s to 8Mb/s, for free. The download times typically take around 5 minutes for the high resolution files. As for the low res files, these download in around 20 seconds, although will stream in 5 seconds.

Im on Plusnet broadband but the signal is wireless and is split between 2-3 computers.

Thanks for the info on the camcorder, is yours CCD? Mine is 3 CCDs.