Water Main Break on My Block!

I woke up this morning to weak water pressure in my apartment. Finding that odd but not thinking too much of it, I went on with my Sunday morning. A few minutes later, I checked Twitter and read this message from my friend Sam: “So I heard St. Paul and Calvert Streets are shut down. Broken water main. Hope you guys don’t have floods!”

I popped my head out my back door and saw this:

Sure enough, there was a water main break on Madison Street between St. Paul and North Calvert.

I lucked out. The flood missed my apartment by half a block. Unfortunately, others weren’t so lucky. On the sidewalk, I talked to a woman who parked downhill on Madison last night, and her entire car was flooded by the break this morning. She said she wouldn’t be able to move it or get it towed until they stop the flow of water. Understandably, she was not a happy camper.

According to a BGE employee I spoke with, the water main broke around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. this morning, and the water is still gushing out of the street as I write this 12 hours later.

Thankfully, we’re having unseasonably warm February weather in Baltimore today. Right now, it’s 63 degrees.

Crews are working on repairing it now, but there’s not a lot they can do while that whole stretch of road is a river. I suspect it will be a while before that stretch of Madison Street re-opens to traffic.

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David Paul 1 month ago 1 point
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Gavin, did you shoot the water main break with your Zi6? If so, please tell me your process, transcoding, editing app, etc. to get such a beautiful result on Vimeo.

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Gavin 1 month ago 1 point
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Hi David! Yes, I shot all the video with my Kodak Zi6, made the titles with Motion, and edited it together in Final Cut Pro.

I used "Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30" for the sequence settings.

From there, I used this guide by Steve Douglas to set up Compressor to optimize the compression to Vimeo specs:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/vimeo_hd_c...

Hope that helps!

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David Paul 1 month ago 1 point
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Oh ... Final Cut Pro ... well ... ahah--I used to edit audio with Digidesign's Pro Tools when someone else paid for it. Now I use Audacity. I'm not saying I can't afford an editing application if it isn't free, but ... wow: Final Cut Pro: that's the one they keep in the glass case on the software rack! :-)

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David Paul 1 month ago 1 point
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P.S. I need to find an affordable PC application that I might use to edit my Zi6 shoots HD to HD.

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Gavin 1 month ago 1 point
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Hi again David! Thanks for the comments.

I suggest you check out the Zi6 group on Vimeo. There's a wide variety of people using all sorts of different platforms and software, and getting great results.

http://vimeo.com/groups/kodakzi6

Some people swear by Sony Vegas on the PC for video editing. I've never used it so I can't vouch for it, but it seems to have a good rep in the Vimeo community.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/ve...

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Gavin 1 month ago 1 point
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Oops, I see that you're already a member of the Zi6 group on Vimeo, which is probably how you found my site! And I also see that you've been talking about Sony Vegas on there. Looks like I gave you a bunch of info you already have!

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