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@robert843 , your gopro footage is great! Do you use special settings on the camera, or do you adjust the brightness and color when you process it?
Haha too funny. I thought she did a good job.
@MrMoose I think its all subjective I thought you video looked good. I shot everything in 1080 P at 60 frames per second. I did not do any color editing and post edit this time as I was using my seven-year-old daughter laptop to edit due to mind being broken and it barely can handle what I was trying to do with it. The one thing I found it if you're not liking the way the colors are turning out on your camera go in and make sure protune is turned off. Protune should only be turned on if you actually plan to edit color it's like shooting pictures in a R a W format. If pro tunes on the camera does not filter anything if you turn protune off it actually uses it sensors to try and filter light in color little bit
Robert, bloody awesome video!
WOW! Awesome pictures!
Thanks, I'll check the protune setting and make sure it's off.
@geiger41 the ride home was a breeze it only took an hour and forty five minutes. You should check out the first video of the original crossing that took 5 hours it was a little rough. It should be in this thread back on the first or second page.
That's part of the adventure! Crossing on jet ski may not be for everybody, but for some of us is an epic blast! I met a group from Jacksonville, FLA at Bimini's Big Game marina that crossed in group of 24 jet skies, it took them 6 hours and they looked like some of my Cuban refugee brothers running away from miserable communism risking all to chase our beloved one of a kind American Dream! Only difference is that they usually take 2-3 weeks, no motor, floating in the gulf of Mexico in one of Fidel Castro's cruise ships AKA as el mucho grande big ass truck inner tube raft. BTW I think we may have broken the record on return jet ski ride in 1 hour 45 minutes? I want to go back already! ;-)
Yeap! Bahamian rum, Bahama Mamas, Hurricanes, Pina Coladas and a friend's moonshine made an excellent muscle and mind relaxer! ;-) I am miserably addicted to jet skiing and salt water, rode another couple of hundred miles more after I got back. ;-)
All the videos and music are awesome! Wish I knew how to edit them like U guys.
If I recall correctly and all the fire water I drank has not done too much damage, another long distance trailerer, Omar from Texas? Again, I salute all of U BIG! What a great group of people and dedicated crew!
Looking at the video of my boat, it was not sitting as low as was stated.. might have to show that to towboat U.S. and argue the "Salvage" point again.. I saw my cooler floating around in the ocean too LOL..
Boy that sure looks like my boat... It is certainly a 212x.
that would be awesome! if you need a place to store it let me know.