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Title: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: Stuart Thomson on June 06, 2009, 12:17:59 AM
Hi all,

Just a couple of laps of Sandown, 172 kmh down the back straight, woo hoo!!!!

http://vimeo.com/5015683 (http://vimeo.com/5015683)

Cheers
Stuart
Title: Re: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: jimnielsen on June 06, 2009, 07:18:18 AM
Very smooth work Stuart! Love the soomthness of the video as well - can you outline how it was captured (and on what) and how you rendered it?  cheers, jim ~
Title: Re: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: Mile Jurcic on June 06, 2009, 10:04:42 AM
Hey mate, good driving and great footage. Agree with Jim the smoothness of the video is exceptional. Also the camera view equally as impressive. Feels like your stting on the front of your grille.
Regards
Mile
Title: Re: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: shane wescott on June 06, 2009, 10:31:04 AM
very cool video, great sound and great to see you passing all those others :-)
Title: Re: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: Stuart Thomson on June 06, 2009, 10:49:15 AM
Quote from: jimnielsen on June 06, 2009, 07:18:18 AM
Very smooth work Stuart! Love the soomthness of the video as well - can you outline how it was captured (and on what) and how you rendered it?  cheers, jim ~

Sorry Jim, trade secret...

Camera is http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/otek-high-definition-video-camera/ (http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/otek-high-definition-video-camera/), which retails at $199, but every now and again they drop the price to $149.  Records to SD card, get them cheap from any number of places.

The video was captured by pressing the record button, then going driving, then pressing the stop button.

Dumped from video card to MacPro at home, it's native HD, so it's 720P.

Used Trackvision 2.1 (see, when I said I needed your serial to evaluate it, I wasn't telling porkies) to overlay the data.  My GPS reception is buggered atm, so the trackmap and timing had to be scrapped, time for a new GPS antenna.

Then used h.264 encoding (the same as it comes in) at the lowest setting for output to vimeo.

Voila.

Cheers
Stuart
Title: Re: The mighty 105 at Sandown
Post by: Evan Bottcher on June 06, 2009, 04:05:03 PM
172kmh!!!!  Show-off  8)

Nice video - I'm still fricking about with TrackVision to get proper quality output (especially for DVD) - seems to not like the capture from my Canon DV cam.  I should also try out vimeo also - a lot of good stuff seems to be moving there.

What's wrong with your GPS?  And how do you get accurate km/h without the GPS?  Have you got a wheel sensor?