Ah ok that makes more sense.

*pushes glasses up nose*

The size bloat is because AVI is an uncompressed format. MP4 is highly compressed (lossy) however, so are essentially storing lossy quality video in uncompressed format — not gaining anything. It's like taking a crappy jpg from the web and saving it as an uncompressed tiff - you will end up with a significantly larger file but not gain any quality.

So that is to say, if you can do your Protune thing and export as MP4, go for it. If not, you might want to try out something like MPEG Streamclip. It is a relatively easy program to use, I believe you can make color adjustments, and you can transcode to literally any format (I.e. Keep it as an MP4 or convert to h264 MOV.

They need Charlie I. and the Kissena crew out there marshalling the race course.  Major fail.

Strange scene
https://youtu.be/la88zd4V6U4

What the hell was that?  I've never seen someone do that.

need the minute marker....

First the crash at 11:32 then 13:50 some weird one man one on one attempt at slowing the field down to wait for his crashed teammates?

Somebody GIF that yet (14:03 to 14:17)? Bizarre. 

These Dutch courses are madness! http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/26927

David Yang said:

First the crash at 11:32 then 13:50 some weird one man one on one attempt at slowing the field down to wait for his crashed teammates?

Wait what in the world is this?!? Is there some interview about this...? that is one of the weirder things I've even seen...

Go to 3:20 to see Sagan's attack.
It's one of the ways to do it.  He followed Sky up the Poggio, then, as Domoulin dropped off, Sky paused.  Sagan came up on their right, and seated, started his attack by moving to the right side of the road.  It wasn't until he was clear that he stood on the pedals and gave everything.

Spanish team, Spanish race... no problemo hermanos!

the offenders got docked some time but this does raise the question of whether the whole team should be punished. 

conceivably the people not in GC contention could continuously push each other at the back and rack up penalty minutes (and small fines). maybe a bit unrealistic, but a possible exploitation. 

Bingo. Apparently the question of whether to penalize just the pusher or the entire team is an issue of translating French. http://www.velonews.com/2017/03/news/movistar-just-hacked-ttts-uci-needs-patch_433280

Update! Sounds like the officials got a call from Cookson...
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/bmc-pleased-correct-decision-deduct-entire-movistar-team-minute-volta-catalunya-320997

[spoiler]Valverde flew up that climb. rooting for Tejay feels like being a Browns fan [/spoiler]

Always the bridesmaid never the bride.

Always the not a doper.

JohnMalcolmson said:

Always the not a doper.

It's striking that TVG seems to have gotten worse over the years.  

Gent is on fire!

word....

2017 UCI Women's WorldTour – Gent-Wevelgem (BEL) – Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIp8f1ZnRA
Perfect example of narrow the odds, narrow the odds, narrow the odds, also awesome to see Coryn Rivera be a full on contender at the top level of the world

Is there a more extreme example of Better Race won with Worse Kit?

http://www.velonews.com/2017/03/analysis/studying-flanders-1992-breakaway-stuns-the-favorites_434030

Damn, that sprint looked painful.

Jules said:

Is there a more extreme example of Better Race won with Worse Kit?

http://www.velonews.com/2017/03/analysis/studying-flanders-1992-breakaway-stuns-the-favorites_434030

I actually like that kit 

Awesomeness.

JohnMalcolmson said:

Awesomeness.

The awkward look on her face is priceless. I think it points out the absurdity of the podium girl/guy idea. Can we get rid of it and ensure men's and women's races have the same prize money.