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Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

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Re: Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

#13

I'm not sure if panning through static photos Ken Burns-style from Mars qualifies as "Mars in 4K [video]". But I appreciate that it makes these stunning images more accessible to more people.

Does this video make them more accessible? It seems to make them less accessible. It's a video composed of readily-available images from https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images

Re: Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

#14
This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think).

"10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements.

It's infuriating, and once you know about it, you see it everywhere. Anyway, in this instance it matters a lot less as the audio is completely unimportant…

Re: Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

#15

This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think). "10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements. It's infuriatin…

YouTube just changed the ad milestone to 8 minutes, and this was posted after this change.

Re: Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

#17

This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think). "10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements. It's infuriatin…

YouTube just changed the ad milestone to 8 minutes, and this was posted after this change.

extremely recently, like a week ago or so, and this video was from 3 days ago; for the next few weeks I'm still going to look at the 10 min timestamp as more telling than an 8 min one (though I'm sure youtubers will "migrate").

Looking at the channel, 3 of its videos are between 10:04 and 10:09 long. Of course, that's nothing compared to a lot of other long-form youtubers I've seen with like 80% of their videos around that timestamp.

Re: Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

#19
post #10

The narrator explains why getting HD video would be impractical, but I disagree that we get the same experience from panning stills. imagine seeing the swirling dust, shifting sands, the bumps and parallax from a moving rover. that would be so cool!

Parallax, maybe, but no wind = no swirling dust or shifting sands, no?
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