Had a "Officer Down" call in our county.  We of course all responded to it.  Just a little clip of me running code across town trying to get there.  Sorry about the black bar, I don’t need my information posted on the web.  I really just wanted to test out my computer and see if I could digitize dash-cam footage.  Anyways, enjoy the clip.  Hope it gives you a better understanding of why you need to always pull off the road when you see lights and hear sirens.  Also note:  The siren in the video is not real.  I didn’t have my mic on.  All you would have heard is me cursing people not getting out of my way LOL.  But I put a siren sound in there just to give it some sound.

So I somehow volunteered to do a slideshow for our class.  Well actually my friend volunteered, but seeing as I do this stuff professionally I volunteered to help him.  And while he did come over and sit with me during the 30 hours I spent on this thing, I made the entire slideshow.  He pretty much watched TV.

The problem with this thing is that our class never got us content.  All session long we asked our classmates to take pictures.  We asked them to record videos.  And they rarely did.  We even brought in cameras and camcorders and offered them up for anyone to use at anytime.  They rarely did.

So you’ll notice some of the early parts of the video are cut short (the video sections are in order by what we did when).  This is due to lack of content.  And also, I asked for weeks for everyone to give me the content they did have.  And three days before the captain said we had to have this thing completed, they finally got me the pictures.  Luckily the captain gave us one more day (which fell on a weekend, so we had until Monday).  So at 8:30pm on a Wed night, I received the photos.  By Monday I had to rip all the videos to a format I could use.  I had to sift through all the videos and try to find something that we needed.  Then clip out that part and recompress it.  I had to sift through all the photos.  To make a long story short, this thing took me 30 hours of labor.  Not nearly as much as one of my professional slideshows.  So please, bear with me.  I know it is sub par.  But it’s all I had to work with.

The good news is, ultimately, everyone loved it.  There were lots of smiles, lots of clapping, and tons of laughter as it played. 

So please click the image above to view our slideshow.

Got some of the video footage from EVOC in.  These are the main videos I have hosted.  There are tons of pictures and you can find them in the photo gallery I’ll post at the end of my academy blogging.

Skid Pad (none of these are me):

Braking (63 is me):

Cone Course (26 is me):