Some video I shot of melees

[Morejello]

Here's 3 shortish youtubes of some fighting from one of our local wars, Harvest War. I used 2 Sony MC50U cameras mounted
side-by-side on the tripod. This camera has a feature where it shoots 4 seconds at a time of footage at ~200 frames per second. So the slo-mo sections are about 1/3 speed. Unfortunately it only shoots 4 seconds at a pop, then takes about 12 seconds to record it to the memory. Also, it's one of those situations where you punch the record button and pray that someone does something cool during the next 4 seconds.

This first one features Duke Konrad von Krixen leading a column charge. The defenders goal was to keep their banner from touching the ground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqrmmE4859Y

This one is part 1 of a 20 minute res battle. The objective was to controll the largest number of the 4 items at each of 4 holds called at 5 minute intervals. I edited out the holds, as well as any time I was moving so much that even I couldn't stand the footage. Unfortunately I was shooting into a woods from the outside, and the marshals required me to stay a few feet back from the edge, so I didn't get the magnificent views that I wanted. There is *some* camera movement as I shift to get better shots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqkdM-htpQ

This is part 2 of the aforementioned woods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9APyA7f-JM

[Grimbah]

No one's commented! These are cool, I like'em! War is coming up so these are fun to watch.

the slow mo inserts are cool!

[Grimbah]

what vid cam you using, those slow mo's as close ups hold up really well...

[Morejello]

what vid cam you using, those slow mo's as close ups hold up really well...

I used 2 Sony MC50U cameras mounted
side-by-side on the tripod. This camera has a feature where it shoots 4 seconds at a time of footage at ~200 frames per second. So the slo-mo sections are about 1/3 speed. Unfortunately it only shoots 4 seconds at a pop, then takes about 12 seconds to record it to the memory. Also, it's one of those situations where you punch the record button and pray that someone does something cool during the next 4 seconds.

I wish I had the bandwidth and computing power at home to upload the 10801 versions of this footage. Sadly, while I can access the Archive from work, I cannot access youtube.

[Grimbah]

oh god... sorry I didn't read the first post well... once I saw youtube, I just jumped to it! sorry!

[Nissan Maxima]

Kewl.

[Andrew Sterner]

They're...actually awesome. I fancy the woods battle myself.

nothing more to add really...keep up the good work!

[Grimbah]

Whoah that mace! At early middle of part 2... whooh hooh hoooh! Any info on that? I'm watching bits between my renders/save etc..

[Gaston de Clermont]

Nice! I love the slomo stuff too. It's weird how much stuff happens that isn't obvious at full speed.

[Ceawlin Alreding]

Very nice indeed!

[Corby de la Flamme]

The video is OK. Tough shooting conditions!

What I notice is the very high standard of appearance on the field. There really isn't a single example of crappy gear, and most of it is very very nice. A surprising amount of mail out there, and it looks like someone local had a sale on pretty lamellar too.

Nice work.

[Konrad]

The video is OK. Tough shooting conditions!

What I notice is the very high standard of appearance on the field. There really isn't a single example of crappy gear, and most of it is very very nice. A surprising amount of mail out there, and it looks like someone local had a sale on pretty lamellar too.

Nice work.

Thanks Corby,

We tend to promote appearance as part of our Kingdom fighting culture. I can speak for most of the Knights in our Kingdom, that once a fighter gets their first set of armour together that they can use for regular practice, we try to help them 'trade up' towards a appearance that they can be proud of on the field. It really doesn't matter what part of the SCA's time frame that interests you as long as you look like something.

Cheers,

Konrad
Artemisia