Thanks for the kind words everyone. I didn't expect such a positive response. Be careful... you've encouraged me to do more! <img src="eek.gif" border="0">
HB - Next time I'll definitely use manual focus as you suggest. That should make all the difference. Also playing with the shutter speed could be fun.. .Next time I'll actually plan the video objective and will leave it going for the flight to give me more material to edit down. I'm a firm believer in getting lots of raw footage and taking the best bits and putting them together. If the result is anything more than about 10 minutes or so I don't think anyone would watch it.
Evo - sorry to hear about the technical difficulties. It was encoded for Windows Media Player 8. You should be able to retrieve a copy from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia." target="_blank">www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia.</a> If you are already using Windows Media Player, try going to Tools->Options and under the Player tab, make sure that Enable automatic codec download is checked. If that doesn't work, try going to the Help menu and selecting Check for Player Updates and grab a new version is it says that one is available. If neither of those work, I'm stumped.