Ancestors

Written by Faolan on 2024-09-13 at 05:17

Well damn. Though a drive that died back on the 2nd only housed backup files. Turns out my only copy of the full 2012 motorcycle trip GoPro videos were on there. I did find Final Cut proxies of them all, but the original quality source is just gone.

When I deduped other source copies, I didn’t realize I went one too far and also zapped the location that gets sent to the cloud backup. Also skipped data recovery under warranty because “it’s just a backup drive”. 🤦

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Toot

Written by Faolan on 2024-09-13 at 05:55

I ferried what built up to 750gb of raw footage initially on multiple 2.5inch drives during the trip. I was hoping at least one drive would survive the rough 2 months on the road, and both did.

The videos moved between several systems since, and I slowly made some content from it here and there. I’m free of the self imposed burden to do more with all those files, but the loss still hurts a bit.

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Descendants

Written by Faolan on 2024-09-16 at 04:40

Did dig out the old drives in the closet, as somewhat expected no copies there. Was a good excuse to boot the old 2008 Mac Pro and verify an old NAS still functions.

The proxy media lets me still reference moments from my journals or photos, and I could do a real time end to end video with them for a small screen.

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Written by Faolan on 2024-12-15 at 18:07

I found a decent 20x timelapse of the full trip. Going to waste some local GPU cycles to see how those frame doubling video AI models handles slowing it back down to realtime. Sound won’t be usable, though most of it was wind noise anyhow, and the proxy media audio could work here.

Probably should start with a small clip vs throwing the whole 40gb file at it first 😂

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Written by fluffy 💜 on 2024-12-15 at 18:22

@faolan I’d expect that most of the details would turn into a smeary, hallucinogenic mess.

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Written by Faolan on 2024-12-15 at 18:34

@fluffy probably, especially considering the footage came from an older GoPro moving at an average of 47.1 MPH

Looks like it works by tearing the video into individual frames vs trying to generate video, so hopefully less hallucinogenic fingers being inserted, and more odd soap opera look on a TV.

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Written by fluffy 💜 on 2024-12-15 at 18:42

@faolan I guess for a typical motorcycle ride it should be okay-ish since I can’t think of any discontinuities that’d cause specific weirdness, like it’s not like you have angle/scene cuts to worry about or whatever. I’d mostly expect things to go weird when you see things like cars passing each other or going around curves or things behind trees off to the side or whatever.

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