The Humber is a mighty body of water where the silty tides run at up to six knots. But not all the time. At high tide it becomes a placid lake fifteen miles long and three wide. At low tid, beyond the bridge, it braids into scores of shallow channels that sparkle in the low winter light.
The Humber is also famous for the dense caprice of its rolling fog banks which can engulf you within minutes of appearing. Bright sunshine one second - visibility down to a few yards the next.
I spent a lovely winter on the Humber, long nights, cold days... just the boat and the overwintering birds.
Beyond the Bridge is 26 minutes long and was filmed entirely between the Humber Bridge and Trent Falls during the winter of 2011/12.
On a PC you right click on the link and save as...
on an ipad you turn around three times with your fingers crossed
127mb tiny mp4 dur 26 mins for smart phones and bandwidth challenged
582 mb 480 p mp4 ideal for cheap laptops and good tablets
877 mb 720p download suitable for great tablets, good laptops, decent desktops
and finally - if all else fails here is the youtube version
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Hi Dylan
Great that you’re starting to publish KTL6 – our Winter here will be improved greatly. Many thanks for giving me and lots of others a reprieve – at last.
Downloaded the 720p version to my PC — slightly less than 5 mins
Playing on my 23″, 1920×1080 LED screen – in a window approx 1/3 of the overall screen size – I was getting a slight (brief) “jiggle” throughout the video. The juggle, which had a duration of prox 1 second, had a period of approx 10 seconds – which persisted very uniformly. If zooming or fast panning masked a jiggle event I could actually predict the next occurrence by watching the sweep second hand of the onscreen PC clock.
Was great to see KTL6 come alive.
Cheers,
TomH
Salem, Mass. USA
Was using Windows Media Player
Watched on YouTube and did not see the same pattern
Viewed on My PC using VLC Media Player – again did not see the same pattern.
Maybe just the WMP for me.
Jan has a great funny bone ;) (re: “especially the fog!”)
Keep the tea lights burning!
Cheers;
Nice movie D. Was it filmed in 1080P or did you use up scaling from 720P? Looking forward to file 2 coming up. I did download at 10 megabit max which was not a lot but ok. What connection do you have when using 12 hours to upload 1 gigabyte? I found the underlying music a bit too loud compared to the parallel natural sounds. Normally you tend to balance music volume to natural sounds very well.
I also saw the pattern they mention above, especially on the red sail. Maybe the conversion is not good enough? 900 mb for 13 minutes is not a lot. Many of the good 1080P films I download are about 30 Gb for 120 minutes ie. 3,25 Gb for 13 minutes. It all comes down to how much loss of information is accepted when setting up the conversion of the file.
Cheers Dylan,
Downloaded 720p version fine, no worries with the wobbles on VLC player, fine on Android Smart Phone and Tablet at this res. as well. If OK I’ll send a single bigger ‘donation’ to the cause later. Media Steaming 1080p around the house might well make some devices earn their keep.
Looking forward to further instalments and getting full value out of my Virgin Media Broadband connection, this month.
Chris.
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for a great film. The 720p version works fine on my PC with WMP, am I the only one to notice, but the 127 mb link seems to point to the 1080p version. Looking forward to the rest of KTL6
Mike
Having compared part-1a 720P to 1080P. There is quite a difference. The 1080P is sharper and gives a crispier image and crispier colors. Especially the mud, the mud looks more muddy and wet!
The 720P picture is slightly blurred in comparison. For me it is worth the ekstra DL time. TV is a Samsung 51’ plasma F8505.
Not that I can’t live with 720P versions, they are the ones I have had great times watching up until now. But I did not think the difference would be as obvious as it is. If you go with the 720p as max I’m in.
HI Dylan
your films have lovely production qualities – those stop frame sequences and creeping waters and misty shots of the Humber are quite romantic. Just because they are familiar to us – and I’m originally a Lincolnshire yellow-belly – we tend to dismiss them as mundane, yet if they were somewhere abroad (and I deleted the word exotic for all its touristy connotations) we would be drooling.
I wonder if your overseas subscribers get that feeling of exotica?
As far as I know nobody is doing yacht charter on the Humber – in little ditch-crawlers – would be perfect but god-save us from the risk-assessments.
I’ve only sailed around Essex/Suffolk for the last two years after decades up on the W coast of Scotland – and I’m captivated by the scenes you have portrayed. Except I’m still scared witless (euphemism) by the lack of depth!
What’s next? Expect you are shackled to the laptop editing?
Thanks
Alan
I do hope you continue with DVDs, I never downloaded any music or any film, I buy a CD or DVD, I will not use “the hole in the wall” or Internet banking. So please continue with the little silver discs for the few !
Ps we pay for Virgin high speed connection and it often has little pauses on You tube, so no where near as fast as they suggest.
Great to see KTL6 coming together… have been a huge fan of the HD content from the beginning. What happened to the “Part 1” and “Part 2” 1080P links? I got part 1, but the link for Part 2 never came in, and now they’re both gone. I can’t watch the 720 stuff, it has the stutters when I play through my Tivo streaming, but the 1080P is gorgeous and smooth… Gotta have part 2…
I’ve been up the Humber a few times but never beyond the bridge. I never thought of it as such a nice place. your films really do change my perspective of these industrial rivers.