Jello

Episode Information

Date of video

August 5th, 2015

Date of upload

September 1st, 2015

Duration

7 minutes 41 seconds

Appearances by

Michael Aranda

Stefan Chin

Glenn Kneebone

Logan George

Brought to you by

David Wilson

Myka Dassano

Isak Hietala

Location

Missoula, Montana

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Weather

Mostly cloudy

Temperature: 53°F/12°C

Wind: Calm

Humidity: 77%

Anthropometry

Weight: 184.7 lbs/83.8 kg

Body Fat: 20.4%

Heart Rate: 64 bpm

Blood Pressure: 117/75 mmhg

Season 4 Stats

Distance

Jogged: 10.8 mi/16 km

Cycled: 10.3 mi/16 km

Driven: 1293 mi/2081 km

Food

Burger King: 1

Chipotle: 1

Earl of Sandwich: 1

Finn & Porter: 1

Fuddruckers: 1

Huhot: 1

In-N-Out: 1

Market On Front: 6

McDonald's: 1

Pita Pit: 1

Pizza Hut: 1

Tagliare: 1

Misc

Visits to the gym: 1

Papyrus: 1

Transcript

On bike ride

(music plays)

Michael: On this bike ride I've been averaging, like, 5 minutes and 15 seconds a mile. Which is crazy to me because I've run a mile in less time than that. Alright. We're here. We're at work.

The Office

Michael: I have this friend on Skype whose status says, "Online with Skype mobile, only from Verizon wireless." But that's objectively false. I don't have Verizon wireless. I also have Skype mobile.

I went back and I reviewed that footage from the bike ride to work today and it's obviously really, really jello-y, which is a result of the iPhone 6 having a rolling shutter. I've complained many times in many other places about rolling shutter, so I'm not going to do it again, but! I talked to Henry about what he thought I could do to reduce that effect. He suggested trying to film at a higher frame rate. So I think once I'm done here and I'm biking home, I'm gonna try that again, but shooting at 60 frames per second instead of 24. For a while I was trying to brain storm a way to mount a, uh, some kind of shock absorber or shock dampening system to the bike and then I could mount my phone to that, but I just wasn't coming up with anything.

On bike ride

Michael: It seems like that problem still exists even when shooting at 60 frames per second, but, as you can see, the front facing camera doesn't seem to have the same problem and I'm curious as to why, because I know that both sensors have a rolling shutter. This is quite the conundrum.

Michael's Apartment

(food sizzling)

Michael: Glenn's making dinner.

(Glenn laughs)

(opera music plays)

Michael: The food's gone. It's in my tummy. Thanks for cooking.

Glenn: You're welcome.

Michael: It was delicious.

So Claire brought this back from South Africa and I'm gonna give it a try. It is South African ginger beer.

That is an interesting taste. It's not spicy, which is usually what I look for in a ginger beer. It's got a really crisp taste. I don't know what else I would liken it to. I dunno. It's good. A product of the CocaCola company?

For Stefan, Claire brought grape flavored 100 proof-

Stefan: Well, she brought a lotta things, but she- I got to choose.

Michael: You were only allowed one.

Stefan: I got to choose one.

Michael: We were trying to decide, or trying to guess which one you were going to choose, and I was like, I bet he's gonna choose grape, and they chose other ones and I was right. Because-

Stefan: Fruity!

Michael: We are- we are BFF.

Stefan: It's- I mean, it smells... What does it smell like?

Logan: Alcohol?

Stefan: I'm not a super smeller.

Logan: I don't smell...

Stefan: No, but there's something, like almost a cleaning solution. I don't know. Alright.

There's almost no grape flavor. It's like- It's like Everclear, but only half as strong. Which is about- that's about correct. Cause Everclear's like 98%, or whatever, and this is 50%. But, like, the grape is not too- let me try that again.

(Michael laughs)

Stefan: Yeah, it's harsh. Whoo. It's been a while since I had something that harsh. Damn.

Michael: We have run into a bit of a problem.

Stefan: Problem.

Michael: A good problem.

Stefan: Oh.

Michael: In that-

Logan: There's more...

Michael: There's more people supporting us on Patreon than can fit in an entire month if we do two each on the end screen. Do you want to do three per end screen?

Logan: I think you should design in a way that it can be...

Stefan: However many you need?

Logan: Yeah. Have a section where it's a whole side panel that will be a "Special thanks to these people," and you can flip it, so instead of having it where you have to have things move, so if you add a fourth, you'd have to change it, we just design this one thing that doesn't move, but that the actual panel it's on flips.

Michael: The thing I'm worried about is if we keep increasing the number of people we put on the end screen, it becomes less special for the people who are on the end screen. If you're the only one on there, it's really special. If you're one of ten people on the end screen, it's still cool, but it is a little bit less so.

Logan: Yeah, cause it'll be less cool if Steve commented and was like, "Thanks to," and then just like-

(Michael laughs)

Logan: -ten people.

Michael: It would also be more work for Steve.

Logan: I don't think three's too many, but maybe if it gets to the point of four, you should be like, we're gonna change it so that you have to be at this tier instead, and, like, warn people ahead of time.

Stefan: We could also ask, and, like, mention possible solutions, or directly ask.

Michael: We could do that. This is a thing we could do if we were recording this conversation.

Stefan: Is it being recorded?

Michael: Yep.

In Michael's Car

Michael: I film most of the footage that goes into my daily vlogs on my iPhone 6 Plus, and one of the reasons that I chose the 6 Plus over just the 6 was that it has optical image stabilization. The lens inside the iPhone 6 Plus is able to move to compensate for motion of the phone. While the 6 has to rely on software to remove camera shake, the 6 Plus with the optical image stabilization can remove some of the shake even before it gets recorded onto the sensor. However, I'm wondering if what causes such a big difference between using the back facing camera and the front facing camera is because the lens element on the back of the iPhone 6 Plus is able to move. I've seen people comment on these videos before, uh, when I've used the back facing camera to vlog in the car rather than the front facing camera. It looks very jello-y, and I'm wondering if, again, it's because of that optical image stabilizer means that the lens isn't totally, completely fixed to the rest of the phone and is able to vibrate maybe separately from the phone, so when you have those small vibrations introduced through, you know, a vibrating car or bicycle, it causes the lens to go all crazy, resulting in very jello-y footage. That's my current hypothesis at least. I'd really like to borrow someone's iPhone 6 and test it out on the bike and in the car to see if the problem is still there or if it goes away. But that's for another day.