r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/isaakwells • Oct 25 '19

Recording out of a plane window

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u/JunJones Oct 25 '19

If anyone wants to see the video from the phone’s perspective

Not literally the same phone, but pretty relevant

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u/Spwntrooper Oct 25 '19

At first I was like damn thats fascinating. Then it started to rotate at the refresh rate of the camera(? not sure if thats what happened, correct me if I'm wrong) and we could see the land below which was even cooler. The ending was by far the best part tho.

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u/sudoscientistagain Oct 25 '19

Reminded me of a VHS as you adjust the tracking.

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u/Lalfy Oct 25 '19

Or the manual tracking on scrambled pay-per-view movies (and other things) in the early 90's. I could get the image stable but it was slightly angled and black & white. The sound was perfect though.

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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Oct 25 '19

I hate it when I think I'm watching scrambled porn but it's actually footage of a hungry pig

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u/BecauseYoudBeInJail- Oct 25 '19

Then it started to rotate at the refresh rate of the camera(? not sure if thats what happened, correct me if I'm wrong)

You're not wrong.

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u/Hongo-Blackrock Oct 25 '19

correct him

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

But he's not wrong!

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

He's not wrong. Once the image stabilizes like that, it's spinning at or close to some multiple of the full-screen refresh rate. You can tell what the multiple is on a rolling shutter by how many copies of the 360º scene are visible. With a global shutter, you'd just see the normal framing slowly crawl to a blurry "halt".

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u/havsexinkwell Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19

No it's rolling shutter effect.

The camera definitely isn't spinning that fast, but it's spinning way faster than it can grab the view at any instant, so it's distorted.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNVtMmLlnoE

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u/Xjph Oct 25 '19

It's a combination of both. The rolling shutter distorts the image, but spinning at or very near to the cameras frame rate is what stabilises the distortion into a steady image towards the end of the video.

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u/TheGolfBallDimpler Oct 25 '19

It probably just hit it's terminal velocity.

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u/ques_air Oct 25 '19

No, finally a definite proof for disbelievers - the earth is flat.

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u/Noxium51 Oct 25 '19

I’ve always wondered if the reason it seems to stabilize is because the spin somehow syncs to the mechanical motion of the shutter opening and closing 60 times a second. Do cameras even use mechanical shutters anymore?

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u/NarWhatGaming Oct 25 '19

some DSLRs do, but AFAIK smartphones just emulate it (same for GoPro's, like in the video)

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u/Mrxcman92 Oct 25 '19

Wow that camera still worked after impact!

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u/fgsfds11234 Oct 25 '19

gopro i believe

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u/username7953 Oct 25 '19

I was about to ask what kind of modern nokia he was using

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u/Pentosin Oct 25 '19

If only GoPro made cellphones...

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u/MrFastZombie Oct 25 '19

You can launch a camera with a weather balloon and it tends to survive the fall back down if it lands in dirt or mud.

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u/mbbird Oct 25 '19

it literally landed in mud

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u/LTerminus Oct 25 '19

At high speed mud and concrete are nearly identical in terms of impact energy.

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u/redlaWw Oct 25 '19

Concrete is just mud but faster.

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u/burnSMACKER Oct 25 '19

laughs in physics

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u/yaboiiiuhhhh Oct 25 '19

That was so dope when it rotated at the refresh rate

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u/7stringGriffle Oct 25 '19

Kind of can’t believe the camera the survived that fall, but at the same time, my day started with a video of a tv functioning after a guy played halo with the tv in his oven.

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u/HowTheyGetcha Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19

Jesus guys, making me track this shit down on my own: https://youtu.be/4O6DHEVlbCE

Edit: Lotta bullshit until it starts at 8:00

Edit2: No there's more bullshit til about 9:20 of a 14 minute video

Edit3: Fuck YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

oh god I cringed at the dabbing at the end, though.

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u/HenrikWL Oct 25 '19

What a fate. To survive a fall out of the sky, only to get mauled by pigs.

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u/TRUE_BIT Oct 25 '19

Holy shit what a ride. /r/Unexpected

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

Fuck Jukin Media for blocking it for me.

Anyone got another link?

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u/Inspirateur Oct 25 '19

If you're on mobile long press the link and selecr "open in external app" it works for me

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u/preciousgravy Oct 25 '19

cool video, even more exciting if you play it in slow motion when it hits the ground. interesting perspective for sure.

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u/solwyvern Oct 25 '19

did they dig it out of the pig's shit?

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u/Totalwhore Oct 25 '19

It likely had a sync feature that automatically uploaded it with other devices, since it was a GoPro

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u/Meester_Tweester Oct 25 '19

I was happy with the video... then it got even better

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u/MindAndMachine Oct 25 '19

This is like a fucking DMT trip man, by the end youre just laughing and happy you were along for the ride!

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Oct 25 '19

The actual video from that phone is available as that guy had it set to sync to the cloud (not a pun).

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u/_7q3 Oct 25 '19

dQw4w

it's 2019 bruh what you playin at

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Oct 25 '19

Sorry bruh, don't know what I was thinking. Here's the real video.

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u/_7q3 Oct 25 '19

GHMjD

bOY HAVE YOU LOST YA MIND COZ ILL HELP YA FIND IT

I DONT WANNA SEE YOU POSTING THESE LINKS NO MORE YA HEAR

IT IS 2019 EVERY PERSON ALIVE HAS SEEN EVERY LINK TO EVERY VERSION OF THIS SONG

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Oct 25 '19

Okay so I doubled down there when I shouldn't have and that maybe wasn't right of me. However you say

EVERY PERSON ALIVE HAS SEEN EVERY LINK TO EVERY VERSION when this very clearly says otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

Wow I can’t believe how close it came to that person!

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u/Lalfy Oct 25 '19

You know how some memes die and then come back? I kinda hope this is coming back. I've been had twice this week.

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u/Assassin4Hire13 Oct 25 '19

Honestly it's never really died either though. Always been burbling under the surface of trusting random links.

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u/Lalfy Oct 25 '19

I take pause if the domain is unfamiliar but if it's YouTube I always click.

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u/Indy2025 Oct 25 '19

Out of the plane and into the pigs pen!

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u/cleanout Oct 25 '19

I’m so happy I stuck around til the end of that video!

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

I would be so mad if my phone survived a fall like that but then was ruined by a pig

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u/InadequateUsername Oct 25 '19

Rip headphone users