Many thanks to the Prof for uploading this excellent video to YouTube.
You’ll feel like you were up in the air with Denise! Toe-curling stuff!
To view this video clip in full screen mode, please click here, and then select the “full screen” button (which is second from the right at the bottom of the video window).
PARWICH.ORG 
Hi Parwich bloggers!
When I posted my blog about Denise’s skydive I promised that I would attempt to get the DVD on to the village web.
Now, I spend a significant amount of my time doing scientific/technical computing (which I’ve been involved with since the 1950’s). However, I knew nothing about webs and blogs and the mysteries of DVD formatting, not to mention YouTube. In the last 3 weeks I have read myself around all this, in a preliminary kind of way, and sourced additional software.
The DVD was around 360 MB, which is quite a chunk, and to get it onto YouTube I had to convert to MPEG-4 format. This reduced the size to 56 MB, which makes it manageable for the route which I had to take – to post on YouTube and then link to Parwich.org. This compression unfortunately leads inevitably to a significant loss of definition, but I think that you will find the video clip extremely watchable and scary!
The BBC Tom Chambers video was high definition, and I shall try to find out how they achieved this.
I’ve also amused myself extracting 80 single frames from the video, and am in process of setting up a slide show. In this way it is possible to show details which pass you by when watching the video at normal speed. I’ve added suitably jokey captions, and I await Denise’s say-so before I dare post it – I’ve also asked her for suitable background music. So this is to follow.
On Tuesday Denise and Charlotte (my PA) and I recounted all the donations currently to hand, and I paid into one of my bank accounts so that we can get it across to Derby. Charlotte had already paid in a significant earlier sum to the Derbyshire Breast Cancer Charity.
Now the problem is, that money is still coming in. There are also outstanding local donations which we shall have to extract by sending Denise round in person (I had thought that we might need a “heavy”, but Denise is a strong lass and speaks her mind – beware!). I was hugely pleased a few minutes ago when someone rang to say that they had just seen the video, and were moved to come round with a second donation – that was really heart-warming.
So, all you laggards who know that you haven’t paid up, please drop your donation off at either New Cottage or direct to Denise at 12 Smithy Close.
I’ll let you know how much has been raised as soon as I am able – but it will be a tidy sum. We are very lucky to have Denise in our midst, and lots of very generous support.
Prof (the converted blogger)
Well done Denise…brilliant,and well done prof for getting it onto You Tube…great footage.
Well done denise great video
a great dive, and you have such courage Denise! well done, and also to the prof for mastering video ormats
An article on Denise’s skydive is due to appear in next week’s Ashbourne Telegraph (12th Nov), so do look out for it.
well done lady, I did my first skydive on Saturday, “still buzzing on Monday”.