camera dropped from an airplane and lands on a farm - you'll go wow & then go ha ha

[Bucky]

[progressoid]

1. Having done some aerial work, that is always a concern.

Strap it down!

[petronius]

2. And my third reaction is that I really want to buy that camera!

Tough as nails...

[NV Whino]

3. I've never seen a pig from that angle!

[kentauros]

4. I liked how it must have been spinning around so fast

that it synced with the scan rate of the video

[Bucky]

5. Scan rate!!

That's the word I was looking for. I was showing this video to my students, but I kept explaining that effect as "syncing up with the framerate"--which I knew was technically the wrong term.

[kentauros]

6. Yeah, framerates, as I recall, refer to film and not video.

Video usually has to sync to multiples related to the refresh or scan rate, usually the same as the power supply, such as 60 hertz/cycles. 24 fps doesn't sync well when recording video on a monitor that is refreshing at 30 or 60 cycles and why you'll get those dark bars scrolling past