New POV Video in HD

Or take a trip to Florida ;)

OnPointTony said:
There isn't one. There was too much yacking on that particular train and it got too loud. ;)

You said no screaming, you never said anything about yacking!!! ;)

Jo
Lifetime Raptor flights: 2175 :)

OnPointTony said:

chris325 said:
Why is there a strange sound throughout Raptor and at the brake run of TTD? Just curious.

The mic on the camera is not broadcast-quality, so you're hearing a "tinny" interpretation of vibration and sound. Plus, the tether attached to the camera may have been moving around.

Actually we were sharing a bag of potato chips during the ride--that's what you heard! ;)

Jo
Lifetime Raptor flights: 2175 :)

OnPointTony said:
Well, it's quite simple really. My job is to make sure that guests remain interested in Cedar Point even when they're not here. POV videos are a great way to "take the park with you" at home...to experience a ride that you love all over again. It may not be the same feeling, but it's the next best thing.

Not to mention it's pretty cool what we can now do with video cameras that size.

We do hope to make them all available for download for your portable video playing device in 2010.

If only all parks did this then maybe people would stop trying to bring cameras on the rides (and take terrible video at that!). Throw signs up in the stations that say something like... "No Cameras Allowed BUT if you would like video of this ride visit www.cedarpoint.com or one of our gift shops for the DVD!". This might not be that great a feature at smaller parks with only 1-2 coasters though!

Better yet - point queued guests toward CP's mobile website, where they can (hopefully, someday) find mobile-friendly versions of the POV videos. Not a bad way to pass the time in line.

I never have any problem just going on youtube and pulling up the POV videos on there on my blackberry.

Good for you. But that requires going to Youtube, searching for the official video, wading through the ill-gotten POV's, until you come across the park's official stuff. Having a direct link from their mobile site would make it easier for those of us who aren't quite as awesome as you. :)

People aren't going to stop taking their own videos because official ones go up, because there's a drive in people to capture their own experience, no matter how shaky or otherwise unwatchable. So I don't see the HD POVs as much of a deterrent. The best deterrent, in my opinion, is letting the other people in line know that the ride is temporarily down because someone dropped their cell phone, or that the train was delayed because someone was foolish enough to start filming in the station. I was delayed about 20 minutes on Maverick because of this, and can assure you that the crowd was out for blood because someone's behavior was costing them time. I also like the 'busted electronics cube of shame' in the Diamondback line.

On a totally different note, are these HD cameras going to be used to shoot at sister parks? It dawned on me that a reverse-POV might be the closest we'll get to experiencing the Backwards Racer again.

It doesn't take me long at all, in fact I just go to youtube.com and type in cedarpointvideos and their youtube account is the first one. I don't think it could be much quicker, unless the homepage of the mobile website were the videos themselves I suppose.

Yeah, it could be much quicker if there were simply links from CP's mobile site. No typing required for that, while what you do requires at least 15 extra clicks/button presses by comparison. Why is that so hard to understand?

LOL, I'm not going to do an analysis on it, I'm just saying it really doesn't take more than 20 seconds for me to be watching an official video.

Break Trims said:
I also like the 'busted electronics cube of shame' in the Diamondback line.

Yeah I love that thing! Makes you think twice about your phone!

When can we expect to see the reverse Maverick POV?

Soon. It was the last thing we recorded. Expect fwd and rev-rev next week.

Awesome. Thanks.

Both should be tasty, tasty, tasty! :)

I guess I'll go ahead and do Tony's job and post Mav's pov on here. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyB9N4mvq4

I just hope you guys do a video for the other coasters,especially in HD! that would be way cool and plus it would replace those out of date video's on the cedar point site!

I have a dumb question. I have watched the Millennium Force POV in HD many times and I cannot figure out why Millennium Force has a noise going up the first hill. I know it's very quiet going up the first hill. Is that the wind or is it the actual elevator from over time?

That's most likely the sound of the catchcar shifting in its track. Though if it's the rattling I'm hearing, then it's the train cause I can hear it throughout the the whole ride (pov and actually riding it).