Looks good Robert. Video works.
Mike.
My You Tube
Here's another animation. This time linked using the embed technique.
I posted a still rendering of this a while back. It is the Wet Product Loading Facilities at Acme Chemicals.
Once again, thanks to Mark Pruitt for allowing me to park a couple of videos on his YouTube channel. I'm in the process of getting a channel for my self.
Robert
EDIT I don't know why it takes up more than the whole width of the screen. Any ideas or suggestions? Can I edit the embed code to a certain pixel width and height?
EDIT #2 It looks like the embed option still needs a little work. So, the plan might be to go to another option: using a simple link to the YouTube channel itself. You don't get an image or a preview or anything, just some cold text in a hot link.
Wet Product Loading Facility Video
EDIT #3 Time warp . . . I made the adjustment suggested by Mark in the post that comes after this one . . .
Question for Mark. When you shoot your videos, do you set up the camera or the video editing post-processor to those height and width values? Do you set them to any values, or is that all already set inside the camera you use? Right now, I am only using these animations becasuse they are the only 'movies' I have. Soon, I will use my camera (that has video capability) to make actual real-live videos.
LINK to SNSR Blog
ROBERT PETRICKEDIT I don't know why it takes up more than the whole width of the screen. Any ideas or suggestions? Can I edit the embed code to a certain pixel width and height?
It appears you can adjust the width of the image in the embed code in the first line, where it gives values for the window. width="560" height="315" are the default values for my videos. Yours in the above clip are width="1004" height="753". You might try adjusting these a bit.
Here's your video with the 560 and 315 values (which came up as default in the YouTube-generated embed code):
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Sculpture titled Prometheus Bringing the Gift of Fire cut from a sheet of 1.0 mm acrylic for the entrance to the Natrona County Library on my N Scale layout. I suppose one day I could paint it bronze or something, but for now I kinda like the contrast and highlight of the black figure. The fire is made from two short pieces of stranded 16 ga wire cut from an old lamp cord and twisted together. Granny was right when she said never throw away old lamp cords, you never know when you're gonna need one . . .
Here's a small little tiny bit of news . . .
I'm from the south, the Deep South. I've been living in the high desert of Wyoming for the past 15 years, but it's time to head back east, to go home. The thirty-below weather we had two weeks ago did not force this decision, but it did contribute a little in its own way. Mainly it's family, and the desire to live someplace where it rains a little more often than once every three years.
The N Scale layout will not be making the trip; not entirely. What can be taken apart will be taken apart, and what can be packed and stacked will be packed and stacked. But here's the news that kinda pertains to this forum: my next layout will be HO. One level. No helix. No hidden staging. In a 20' X 50' purpose-built garage/workshop/building. I'll let the grandkids and the real estate agents decide what the building is when that time comes; but for me, for now, it will be the train room.
I'm not abandoning N Scale. My eyes are still sharp and my hands are still steady. I will keep a few (of what might be called unit-) trains and participate in FreemoN activities in a portable travelling sort of way (one 8-foot module that comes to mind will feature a long-span high-level cantilever truss bridge), but the home layout will be HO. The reason for the HO business isn't size; it's variety, it's availability. It's that there are simply many more choices regarding structures, buildings, and vehicles. No big deal. It's just a thing.
Anyhow, there it is.
Robert,
All I can say is welcome back to places that are green......
HO does have the variety thing going on for sure.
Some planned but until now delayed life and family changes are finally happening so the slow progress on my layout is finally accelerating.
Looking forward to see what you build.
Sheldon
Hi Robert,
ROBERT PETRICKHere's a small little tiny bit of news . . .
That's hardly what I would call a "small little tiny bit of news..."!
Here's hoping your move goes smoothly and that your new model train venture is a success! I look forward to your progress reports.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
ROBERT PETRICK My eyes are still sharp and my hands are still steady.
My eyes are still sharp and my hands are still steady.
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light.
And I held firmly to what I felt was right.
Like a rock.
Bob Seger
Alton Junction
Looking forward to your new layout, Robert.
Welcome to the world of HO scale!
Rich
richhotrain Looking forward to your new layout, Robert. Welcome to the world of HO scale! Rich
Hey Rich -
Thanks. You know, you were a small part of the decision to go to HO scale . . .
A few years ago, you were working on the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. I did some research and noodled around and did some rough cutting out tracery details for the large arch windows:
This is just about the limits of the small detail I can do using my laser cutter, and it is HO scale. I could not do this in N.
ROBERT PETRICK richhotrain Looking forward to your new layout, Robert. Welcome to the world of HO scale! Rich Hey Rich - Thanks. You know, you were a small part of the decision to go to HO scale . . . A few years ago, you were working on the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.
A few years ago, you were working on the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.
November 2020 was a seminal moment for me in that subsequent back and hip problems resulted in a long layoff from working on my layout. I still do plan to scratchbuild the LAUPT, and I have dismantled the roundhouse and turntable on the peninsula to make room for the passenger station. For the time being, I have the Walthers Cornerstone Union Station sitting in its place.
Hi Robert, looking forward to your HO build. Good luck with the move.