Webcam Question

Yeah, it definitely isn't the easiest thing to put together (for me, at least).

From the DragsterCam today, you can see the fountain site is pretty busy, Matterhorn got its cars, some small crane was doing something down the midway, and if you look closely (and click on the HQ YouTube button) there was a large crane over Raptor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGsjQbxL5jE

edit: er... not Matterhorn.. Super Himalaya.

Check out the dragster cam this morning. Looks like the bay is trying to connect to the lake via the main parking lot.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l32/vermilionguy/dragstercam.jpg

Oi! How much rain have you guys got in the past week? It look like now the water has receded, some.

http://www.cedarpoint.com/_upload/cpcam/dragstercam.jpg

I wonder why CP hasn't made their web cams live/streaming. I know there was a site that did have one, I think it was of the main midway. Anyone have a link to this?

It is not active anymore. I don't think the Funcoast one is either.

Funcoast was back up last week when I tried it.

I posted another capture to YouTube... and actually got some decent quality out of the HD stream. It isn't the most interesting thing, but you can see them pave the midway and work on the Sky Ride station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpOsA_aJRis

I am trying my best to keep my eye out for anything interesting... I missed over half of the gondola-loading for Sky Ride today :( but I have some of it.

Not exactly edge of your seat action there but I appreciate your effort none the less. Do you mind if I ask what program(s) you use to capture the web cam shots and how you stitch them together?

I use Webcam Magic for capture. It's been a while since I stiched, but I think I used Ulead.

I looked at the TTD cam today and I noticed, why is the corkscrew train stopped at the bottom of the hill? It's been there for a day or two now. And Dragster has a few of the trains back on the transfer tracks. Only 30 days!

Thats usually how they park the Corkscrew trains if I'm not mistaken. Two trains are in the brake run and one is on the lift. Maybe they park one under the station but I'm not sure either.