Road Racing - Barber hpde 5-28/5-29 video

Car was soooooooo much better this time around. I was signed off to solo in B after the third session on Saturday.


Mods since last HPDE back in march are...

Kore3 C6 Vette brakes on front mounted with trackbrackets.

Cooling ducts in front valance

Blaine fab spindle ducts

Psc power steering pump with cooler

Frame connectors

Ferodo DS 2500 front pads( these are phenomenal pads)

Hawk HP+ rear

4 point roll bar with belts

All I can say is Wow! Car is totally different, brakes are off the chart! I had so much I was slowing down too much lol.

In the last session I started to experiment driving in deeper and braking harder-shorter ......again, wow.

Car was double stinted Sunday after my buddy wrecked his Civic SI, we put him in C group with me in B.

I would come in 5 minutes early from my session, ride the outside road from the paddock to cool it off then put him in the car for his session in C. Only problem was the power steering got a little warm and puked a little fluid, other than that the car never missed a lick.

Video, first lap was a warm up. Battery died after 9 minutes.


Also, where can I load my full session videos? U tube says they are too long. What video editing software are you guys useing? I see Vimeo is used by Mitch, how does that work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7SPtbaNVY8

Looks like fun! Wish I was there :nod:

What video editing software are you guys useing? I see Vimeo is used by Mitch, how does that work?

May not be the place for it, but since you asked here goes...

Never used Vimeo so can't comment... However, I'm using Pinnacle Studio 14 (at the time I believe it was the minimum version of Studio able to handle H.264 file format my camera shoots in). Simple enough to use, and relatively cheap (starting at ~$60).

If you're using a GoPro or similar camera that shoots in 1080p, yeah, the file sizes can be pretty big. I think my Drift HD170 averages a 2-2.5GB file per session on the track. After I download it to my computer I cut it down to only the stuff I want people to see :secret2:, then render it in 720p before uploading it to youtube. I think the end result is a little over 300MB for a 10min file.

Hope this helps.
Mark.

Was shot with a second generation Flip camera. It only shoots in 720 at 30 fps. I was surprised how good it looks for a $100 camera.

A buddy told me to compress it using Divx, ever use that?.

Vimeo to host because Youtube limits size and/or length.

I use Premeire Pro, Premeire Elements, Moviemaker and/or Flip Share to edit

A buddy told me to compress it using Divx, ever use that?.

Unfortunately no, never have. Sorry.

Mark.

Was shot with a second generation Flip camera. It only shoots in 720 at 30 fps. I was surprised how good it looks for a $100 camera.

A buddy told me to compress it using Divx, ever use that?.

As long as your playback software has the decoder, encoding with DIVX does a good job of compressing.

But, it doesn't make a lot of sense to record high res 720P and then compress the hell out of it.

As long as your playback software has the decoder, encoding with DIVX does a good job of compressing.

But, it doesn't make a lot of sense to record high res 720P and then compress the hell out of it.

Is the Vimeo free? I see a pay side also. Which one Mitch?

I pay for my Vimeo account.. Gives you A LOT more monthly uploads and storage.

I use the free one.

Yes, limited on the number of daily and monthly uploads. But I haven't banged that rev limiter yet.

I've been using MPEG Streamclip to compress GoPro files. Lots of options for format and compression, including a bunch of stuff I don't understand, but it's simple enough for basic conversion and compression.

BobP