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Doug

Matt - it's a cool little movie but it takes a long time to load...and I'm on cable. Dial-up folks could go to lunch, come back, and it would still be loading.

Rocko Delray

Great site.
I will download the movie later. You might try a web storage site. Much faster that way!
Take a look at my site and you will see.

Rocko Delray
rockodelray.blogspot.com

Robb White

Twelve minutes loading time on a cable hookup... well worth it. I believe Tom thinks he got his money's worth for that sailboat ride.

Russ Manheimer

Matt,

What a neat little movie. Surf's up! Thank Mr.Jackson for me.

It took about 7 minutes to load over a basic DSL line.

On the subject of Raids, how about WB organizing participation in one? A trip to the Baltic or where ever, a charted boat or two, accomodations, etc. Similar to your other trips, like the one to Norway, but with the chance to sail in a Raid.

Russ Manheimer

Peter

It took me just about four minutes to download the file, while I was on a university network connection. My browser handles .mov files by showing them in Quicktime, which I don't prefer. As a hobbyist videographer, I work with .wmv files. A more ubiquitous viewer, which defaults to streaming play, and has more available video editing software. Try it out at http://www.intronfilms.com/Mercantile05_Trailer.wmv

Peter Eipers

Gary Powell

Mine took about 2 minutes on a T1. Still it froze the machine while it loaded and then was teeny tiny image, with no sound. Pretty poor experience for an online mov file.

Derek Byrne

Peter Eipers .wmv file downloaded in a minute (work network). The .mov took a lot longer.
Great clip and at two minutes long it's better than most clips available.


Matthew Kershner

The .mov took two minutes and change to download over a cable connection, with a downstream average of about 150 KB/sec. The .wmv took half the time, but then it's half the size. I wouldn't mind seeing larger, higher resolution versions of these files.

Personally, I could stand more of this sort of thing. The Raid clip has beautiful boats doing what they were meant to, and sound would really make it come alive.

Tom Galyen

Movie to quite a long time to load. I was ready to quit and go onto something else when it suddenly began to play. I liked it quite a bit. Sound would make it even better, even if you just added music.

Tom G. (Seaweed)

Tom Galyen

Movie to quite a long time to load. I was ready to quit and go onto something else when it suddenly began to play. I liked it quite a bit. Sound would make it even better, even if you just added music.

Tom G. (Seaweed)

Ben Bishop

Took no time to load , movie was small but fun to watch, wish I were on-board!

Rick Starr

About the movie: 10min over crude wireless broadband network. My old dial-up (I thought I was the last person to have given that up) would have taken about 30min or more, but would have been do-able and well worth the effort. Good lunch time download, as someone else mentioned.

I wonder, however, of the .MOV format was the best choice. While I love most things from apple, the quicktime platform has to be it's weakest link. It seems like files of similar size and complexity in .mpg or .wmv (shudder) would have taken less space (hence faster d/l time/smaller file). Also I find quicktime to be less versatile than it's windows or other aftermarket counterparts, although I'm no expert, which may explain it.

About the Movie itself: Thank you, thank you, thank you for that. When those Swedish pilot boats began making a scene in the wb community they have made me swoon. Thank you for your coverage of them and your official notice of the raid network in which they seem to be prospering.

Will Parkes

The video downloaded over a cable modem connection in about four minutes. The quality of the photography was excellent. It was some exciting stuff, but not as good as some 505 sailing videos I've seen on Phillipe Kahn's Pegasus racing site or some of the Volvo Ocean Race videos.

Raids do look like a lot of fun though. I'll bet they are well worth taking part in.

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