56.5" (std gauge) / (45mm / 25.4 mm/") = 31.9  so it would seem 1:32 would be closest.

Charlie

My only issue with the interview wasn't so much the interview, but that with the interview, there should have been much more video footage showing trains flowing through the scenery, without that element, the video does get somewhat boring.....

Gary W

Yes, I agree to the extent that the camera should have been focused on the immediate subject under the discussion (such as close-ups of the trestles when discussing their contruction) to make the interview more interesting and instructive.

We actually didn't feature tons of Tom's layout on video out of courtesy to our sponsoring advertiser, Pacific Vista. If we featured a bunch of video of Tom's layout too for free, why would you want to buy Pacific Vista's videos?

Plus these free MRH Theater videos are just that - free. That means it's not in our best interest to knock ourselves out making a super cool video because it just doesn't make economic sense at this stage in our little venture's life.

If you've ever edited video, you know what I mean - if we made all the MRH Theater videos super cool, we'd never have any time to do the magazine! The more kinds of different footage you pull together, mix with voiceovers and what not, the more time it takes ... and somewhere in here it's nice to actually get off the computer and work on the layout!

Okey dokey, Joe.  I wasn't complaining.

If you've ever edited video, you know what I mean - if we made all the MRH Theater videos super cool, we'd never have any time to do the magazine! The more kinds of different footage you pull together, mix with voiceovers and what not, the more time it takes

Absolutely!

I am currently editing video I shot on a tour of a coal fired power plant. I'm adding music, titles, voice over narration, various footage, still images with motion applied, etc.  It's really quite time consuming. 

Okey dokey, Joe.  I wasn't complaining.

I don't want to sound too harsh, but it is true that one of the most time-consuming tasks we can do in this free venture is edit video. It can very easily turn into a sinkhole that consumes many, many hours - so we'll put the video together and make it decent quality, no problem. But as far as making it fancy with lots of extras, we need to watch that or we'll sink this little enterprise before it really gets off the ground.

Just one of those things we can help people understand so they'll cut us some slack while we just getting started.

one of the most time-consuming tasks we can do in this free venture is edit video. It can very easily turn into a sinkhole that consumes many, many hours

or days...

I was the guy who shot (and interviewed) Tom. When I did the shooting I hadn't yet figured out that it might be nice to post the video of the interviews. I chose to shoot video because I don't own a decent audio recorder but at the time of the interview I was intent on capturing the questions and answers (and this was the first interview I'd ever done, too...). So I didn't have anything in my script for shooting video of trestles, buildings, or other specific stuff. When I was shooting the still pix to go with the article I was concentrating on 'art' rather than documentation. The result is there really weren't any super closeups of the large (maybe I should say 'huge') trestles. The train cam shots were an afterthought (Tom suggested I put my cam corder on one of his Fn3 flat cars and shove it around the layout.

But I appreciate the comments and I'll keep them in mind to improve interviews I do in the future.

Best regards,

Charlie

Okay, as one who does  a lot of video work myself, you can check out my youtube channel anytime, my handle is betsy662, every once in awhile, I do a video series called Resurrecting The Dinosaurs, which involves restoring and detailing older models, I also do Weathering 101, but most of my vids involve Trainz Railroad Simulator.

While I understand that Pacific Vista might want to sell more DVD's, and I also understand editing video can be time consuming, ( just ask anyone who works in a movie studio cutting room), it still wouldn't have been that much of a stretch to include a little footage of trains running through some scenes....