Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Male Turdus merula feeding chicks.ogv

Blackbirds Chick Feeding[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Nov 2010 at 09:01:12 (UTC)

Original - Male Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) feeding chicks, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia

Reason: This 1080p video is about as high quality as one can expect with the 100mb file limit. I had to prune the bush quite a lot. The call heard at the start is a blackbird call. I figure this adds a lot of EV to it's relevant articles. It is raining quite a bit but probably the only decent overcast day for a few days (sunlight would be very uneven with blown highlights and clipped shadows here). It took about an hour of filming to get this (the parents usually obscured the chicks too much). I just left the camera during that time. Some silvereyes are nesting atm too, but a little too high up to film. The nomination is a bit swift so I have another shot at it if there is some glaring problem.
Articles in which this image appears: Bird, Common Blackbird
FP category for this image: link to category from WP:FP that best describes the image (check categories first)
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 09:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral the quality is really nice indeed. But I am not really sure about the EV: out of the 30+ secs, the 'feeding' part is like 5 secs, and the rest is staring. Also, I don't love the background noise; I don't know how, but I am certain that the sound can be cleaned up. Nergaal (talk) 05:06, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the audio in attempt to reduce the background noise and bring out the chicks sound. I don't know how to mux it with the ogv stream or supply an edit to the nomination, but it is here if someone finds it useful and is able to do so. There is always some loss in fidelity so I recommend leaving the original up in case a more skilled editor tries. nakomaru (talk) 03:45, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It sounds kind of pitch shifted or something though? The noise is mostly the wind, the rain, and the fact that the camera's built in microphone isn't particularly good. I may eventually buy a decent shotgun to record bird calls, but it is all for now. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:59, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update Chicks have either fledged or been eaten, so no re-shoot now. Noodle snacks (talk) 07:23, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support IMO meets the requirements. I am a bit concerned about the size though. For such a short clip the size of the file is too large. Is there no way to upload a .mkv file? --Muhammad(talk) 09:41, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, mkv is just a container. Usually it contains h264 though. The video comes out of the camera as h.264, so something like that would make perfect sense. No wikimedia support though. I just used avidemux to cut the video, then miro video converter, as recommended here. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 06:25, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]