Minute To Win It Season 2
Janet Denzel
2 Minute Drill features entrepreneurs from all walks of life competing each week for more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. Hosted by Legendary Entrepreneur, Investor, and Best-Selling Author, David Meltzer. Four contestants have just two minutes to deliver their most convincing pitch ever. Who will fold under the pressure and who will thrive?
We have thus recorded the journey four times, with the idea of combining the four seasons in both a regular, 10 hour long, TV documentary, and a version for web where the audience can mix their own version. Let us show you an example of the result:
The recording was done using a SonyXDcam, placed in the front of the Di. 4 locomotives used on Nordlandsbanen. In addition we used Canon XF 302 for some side view-shots and interviews, in addition to GoPro Hero 2 and a Sony Handycam for some effect shots.
Even though the Norwegian State Railway managed to keep the schedule on each of our recorded trips, the four journeys differed in position at any given time. The train will, for example, not enter a station at the exact same second in both June and March, and cannot keep the exact same speed at all times. In other words, we had to synchronize the video files in order to make the train appear to be at the same place at the same time in every video stream.
The GPS position of the train was logged continuously on each trip, with an interval of 1 Hz. Deciding to use the summer clip as the master, we used Microsoft Excel to interpolate the GPS data to 25 Hz, to match the video frame rate of 25 frames per second. This 25 Hz GPS data was then written to a PostgreSQL database.
We then wrote a script which asked the database to give us the time for when each of the other seasons were at the same position as the Summer recording. This gave us a long list of time codes, near 36 000. Using Adobe After Effects, we were then able to manipulate the speed of the winter, autumn and spring-recordings with the effect time remap, to match the speed and position of the summer recording.
This is a screenshot of the autumn recording before we adjust it to match the speed of the summer recording. We see that the time is linear, meaning one frame in = one frame out. There is also only two keyframes: at the start and the end of the video. Adobe After Effects enables us to copy the keyframe data as plain text, and if we do that, this is what we end up with:
The data of interest here is the values under frame and seconds. Frame denotes which frame number is the keyframe, and seconds denotes what time in the recorded video that is to be shown at that specific frame.
You might have noticed we use 90 frames per second, as opposed to the original 25 that we recorded. Adobe After Effects does not support time lines over three hours, but does, however, support up to 99,99 frames per second. By speeding up the video, we are able to keep our time line under three hours, and avoid splitting our recording over several time lines.
Just like we shared Bergensbanen, Flmsbanen, Holmenkollbanen, Telemarkskanalen, and the 134 hour long Hurtigruten minute by minute-programmes, we do of course share the Nordlandsbanen as well. We give you all four seasons, already synchronised, in addition to the GPS data for each trip. The files can be downloaded via BitTorrent:
I am an enthusiast of photo and video (including editing) and I always loved to arrange meta-information and creativity. Several years before the age of smartphone, I created a geo-tagging method based on excel and excel macros to embed the GPS position in my photos.
The reason is that the trips from the winter, spring and fall have been time remapped to match the summer trip. If You are interested in the original, recordings with audio, they can be downloaded from the links found at the bottom of this article: nrkbeta.no/2012/11/30/julekalender-nordlandsbanen
I wonder if you can help me associating the lines from the GPS data files with the videos. That is, I want to know which frame in the synchronized video belongs to which line in the GPS data file. I suppose this information can be retrieved from the frame-to-seconds associations you used for the keyframe synchronization. Maybe you could make those available too?
Why am I asking?
I am a researcher at a university and we have lately been using your synchronized videos in our research on life-long autonomy for robots in changing environments. We try to find algorithms that can learn to predict how an environment changes over time (e.g. during the seasons). If you are interested in what we do with your data, you can check out our papers from my website, e.g. this one tu-chemnitz.de/etit/proaut/mitarbeiter/rsrc/ECMR13_ACP.pdf
I have made a csv-file of the json used on the site, for the synchronisation.
It has three columns. seconds since start of file, and the position data, for every ten seconds throughout the journey.
if You manage to match the position of one of the lines to the original GPS log, You will find the time offset. Remember to use the summer track, since that is that is the master that the other seasons are mapped to.
There are some weird pauses in the GPS data (or hops in the time stamps). For example at record 62 the timestamp jumps from 5385900 to 5390000, which is a 4000/100 second hop. However the distance between GPS coordinates does not show any slowing down or speeding up of the train, and there is no pause in the video. Also in the synchronized video there is nothing weird to be seen at this point (crossing Nidelv bru).
First, thank you both for making these videos and making them available for download. I have put edited versions of the summer video on youtube. I have added station, tunnel and bridge names. I also elimated waits at red signals and longer station stops.
This is not the first time this problem happened. When season 18 launched, there was a critical bug and they had to revert back to the Role Queue Beta season (the mini-season between 17 and 18 to test the new Role Queue features). It too had this message error.
This seems weird to me. Never seen them screw up a ladder reset on any game. I reckon they tried to answer all the whiners, loads some new content into OW1 and the game code/server got destroyed haha.
Today I am sharing easy last-minute ways to deck your halls with natural elements, greenery, candles, ribbons, books, and other things you might have on hand, or which you can pick up easily when out doing the last of your shopping!
It is not too late to to dry orange slices for decorating: 4-6 hours in a 175-oven on convection mode, flipping the orange slices once around halfway through. I also add these to greenery and garlands.
Molly! 11 wreaths! Of course you have 11 wreaths. Is there a more warm and welcoming home than yours? There is not. I appreciate your entire holiday decorating series. So many wonderful ideas, and of course your photography is swoon worthy and so inspiring, Looking forward to your holiday menu post. And wishing you the most magical Christmas and Happy New Year! xoxo
Hi Sue! I defintely like to use my holiday decor into the winter. It can be rather bleak here. The brown hydrangeas might be pretty as is with the brown and blue ribbons. Or maybe go for a copper color. Or if you keep greenery around, a soft green to contrast with the darker greenery. Play with it a bit and see what works for you!
If you have udon noodles in your pantry or freezer, you will always have a quick and easy dinner at the ready with this versatile recipe. And this udon stir fry is ready in just about 15 minutes from start to finish.
Step 3: Add the noodles and stir fry a bit to remove any water on them. Add the sauce and toss to coat. Finally, add the spinach and stir fry until the spinach is wilted. Spoon into bowls, garnish and serve!
Change up the vegetables! Pretty much any vegetable or green will work in the stir fry. The only consideration is how long it will take to cook in the pan. Be sure whatever you add is tender-crisp in the pan before you proceed with adding the noodles and sauce.
Add a protein! Chicken is a great addition to this dish, either cooked chicken or cook a bit of chicken in the wok before starting the stir fry (remove to a plate, then add back in towards the end, to warm).
I used this recipe for a cooking competition and it was a winner! My judges (teachers) said it was the best thing they had ever tasted and even asked for the recipe. I then made it for myself and it was SO GOOD?. 11/10 recommend.
Perfect for week nights. My 9 yr and 3yr approved it. Definitely a keeper. I added carrots, red and green king sweetie, cucumber and baby spinach. Will play around with the veggies and meat. Thanks for the great recipe. From NZ.
The sauce is amazing, and you can add any vegetables, so great way to clean out the fridge. If hot outside you can grill veggies on BBQ and add to noodle for a quick comforting meal! A definite favorite in this house, and feels like something I would order out for. This really keeps me on track in terms of healthy choices as I can up the veggies while still enjoying udon noodles. Love this as a great comforting and easy meal!!!!
Very tasty. Added mushrooms & red pepper. Used bok choy instead of spinach. Served with oven baked tofu. Next time will use chicken. Love the udon noodles being mixed right in! (took longer than 15 min, otherwise would have given 5 stars)
Inside, it feels like Christmas Eve. Volunteers in fleece and flannel sell tickets for beer and serve chili from slow cookers. With their shanties in place, fishermen and women listen to live, mostly country music, swap fish stories and discuss their hopes for the next morning.
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