well, if that's the only way you can get acceptance: celebrate your skills!

mmh that would be poor - if you did it that way I'll take back my praise
..still great looking stuff, but using editing functions to show off drifting-skills and a car control that you don't have sounds somewhat stupid to me.

woah, for me (being a non-drifter) that looked very very impressive.. I bet that took you some practise

also I think the camera angles and the relaxing song were a good choice!

thank you for all the feedback and early congratulations!

Quote from filur :

Def Live Poser Eve Refolds Pi, Develops Fire.

Quote from BigTime :

If only "Will Race for Food" would fit on a plate.

okay nolan, one more hint
filur revealed you as a Conga Ricer :shhh:

Quote from John5200 :

i always wonder with what program you are making your vids... Because they are made so simple that they could be done in windows movie maker

to be honest, I never really tried the movie maker but it's not far away from what I use: I cut the video in virtualdub (while having a txt-file opened in which I wrote down where to cut and where to put which scene). after cutting I save the video and the audio layer seperated. for tweaking the gamesounds (adjusting the volume - which really differs from car to car in lfs) and combining them with the song I use audacity, then for adding a few simple "effects" (those fade-outs/-ins, flashes, black-and-white) and for rendering I use avidemux. it resembles virtualdub quite much but when compressing the video it crashes by far not as often

maybe I will try vegas or premiere some day but at the moment I prefer the simple style and don't really see a reason why I should add hollywood-like effects

the only thing I didn't like at all was that frame you used somewhere in the middle..but that's a minor thing, awsome video, I enjoyed the whole thing! and the second song is indeed top notch

Quote from BigTime :

I've gotta ask though... Is the name of that team really, "Fred Loves Pie?"

yes it is, perfectly related to racing!

Quote from jmracing1 :

Btw. Poor TPC-guy surronded by 4 FLPs @ 1.45

no worries, we didn't do any harm to him

I'm glad you guys like the movie

thanks for the comments already!

btw, I added a direct download link now (thx fel!)

Quote from Mrwei :

need youtube

youtube link was already added but then I noticed that even the "HQ" version was beyond anything horrible I had ever seen before.. so now I'm rendering it again and will upload it in a (hopefully) youtube-friendly format

EDIT: there you go, YT link added - youtube just was still processing it and hadn't finished the HQ version yet, as I watched it ..looks waaay better now

Last edited by Jens O., Thu 5 Mar 2009, 15:50.

I'm happy to present you my latest video, "3 years of FLP/racing".
it's dedicated to our team, FLP/racing - dudes, you rock!



FLP was founded in early april '06 but I got this movie finished earlier
than expected and I don't see a reason why I should wait with releasing
it - I'm sure we'll complete our third year too, only a month to go!

well, I hope you enjoy the video, feel free to leave me some comments!

size: 147 MB
length: 3:19 min

download:
liveforspeed.se <- ddl!
RapidShare.de

Stream:
YouTube
lfsmovies.com

Last edited by Jens O., Thu 5 Mar 2009, 16:52.

quite nice I'd say.

that music isn't my cup of tea but I think it matched, also you synchronized the footage.. well done!

if that clue doesn't help I've got a suggestion too, might be worth a try:

perhaps you have to disable the mic somewhere in the audio (record-)settings .. also I got a tick at the so called "stereo mix", not 100% sure if that one is needed, but I think it is.

you can access on those settings from the "mixer.exe" which might be listed on the very right of your taskbar (or otherwise try to search for it using the windows search).

I'm not an expert when it comes to windows and stuff, sorry for the sparsely description

Quote from eimer_ :

this one time, lying on a weird racing-skateboard-something, rolling downhill, i swear i was doing more then 30KPH! the damn thing started shaking left-right very fast and almost threw me off before i could stop. and the fingers almost scratched on the tarmac. very scary!

on a public road that was. yesyes!

yea I had a similar experience! I used a public road to ride down a huge dike on the north sea on my vacation.. using a pedal go cart. the steering had some backlash and got out of control under a similar speed, so I flipped after doing slalom lines towards the pavement... I got several bruises and scars all over the body, speed kills!

but seriously.. this thread is just for "comparing sizes", really mature imo

great stuff indeed, give me more!

watching good lfs videos is at least a little compensation when you don't have time to make one yourself

I'm quite heavily nearsighted, have been wearing glasses since I was 2. so I got used to them early and rarely took them off. might be that my eyes got even worse because of that but since the oculist never told me to take them off (while doing certain activities) I never even thought about doing so. I just don't like it when everything's blurred - basically you can just see me not using glasses when sleeping or swimming

and well meanwhile I can't even read books without glasses anymore, unless I almost touch the book with my nose

Quote from zeugnimod :

Austria?

He's going quite a lot further than the rumblestrip after T1.

oh yes that may have been it. thanks, a very obvious example I think

and one more thought: if the rule really is to keep 2 wheels inside the white line, it would be logical to get your hotlap invalid as soon as you infridge the rule - but obviously you can indeed go offroad unless you touch the grass/dirt with more than 2 wheels.

concerning your possible solution: I've never been a fan of extra cones and stuff to avoid that (un)famous "cutting". it's not because I like to get my tyres dirty and gain advantage with cutting but because it can ruin your/the race if you miss the turn-in point accidently and spin (and perhaps cause a huge pileup). although I don't really see another real solution if someone wants to forbid that cutting

Quote from UncleBenny :

I always figured that the edge of the track was defined by the white lines, which does not include the curbing.

I thought that too but started wondering while watching F1 some time - there were quite some meters of tarmac outside the track (seeing the track as restricted by the two white lines) - and everybody was using it with the whole car to get a smoother line.. if I could only remember what track it was.. I agree on the "2 wheels on the track"-rule but now the question is: where is the edge?

however, would be great to have some clear rules concerning that.. are there any..?

I got an addition for those of you who use virtualdub for cutting and would like to include the gamesounds although recording at lower speeds:

in fraps, set the tick beside "record sound".. then, before recording in lfs, make sure you don't use a variable framerate but set the same framerate that you use in fraps (otherwise the sound and video might later not be synchron, as I once noticed after I was just done with cutting an lfs video :schwitz.

after recording, open your clip(s) in virtualdub and do the following:
- audio -> [x] full compressing mode -> [x] use advanced filtering
- audio -> filters -> add ... - add "input", "stretch" and "output"..
- close that add-filter-window and doubleclick the stretch-element in the filter-window... then set the speed you recorded at (e.g. 0.25 if you recorded in 1/4 speed)

after adjusting the framerate of the video just like Squid described you should have a perfectly synchronal gamesound - without a loss of quality.

one more thing, lfs disables the sounds when playing a replay at 0.125x speed, so if you record at this speed, this method won't work.

well in general I'm not a fan of slowmotion videos, so it's quite hard to enthuse me with those.. and yup, it might be hard to put anything else in the first minute, but my idea is that the content of the slowmotion clips could vary a little bit more. maybe you could put a few crashes, unintentional drifts, passes, defending moves etc in it. for me it seemed like you showed close racing, basically lots of cars in a row or on a tiny peace of tarmac - when I was new to lfs, I couldn't get enough of that kind of footage.. I still find it great, but you used too much of it for my taste.

and when it comes to your clips in regular speed (second part of the video), it's imo again lacking of the action-footage that I mentioned

come on, replace the "links" with content already

the pic looks cool, though

to be honest, this video isn't anything special to me (at least compared to your previous videos).. the cars only driving in slowmotion made me bored a little bit, but then at 0:53+ you put some nice action, the flipping car and the other driver struggling, trying to catch the drift. same goes with the scene at 1:05+, it's a nice change compared to the first minute.

I wish there had been more of those scenes, especially when the music finally get's more hectic. then I would have liked the video a lot more, probably ...but that's only my personal taste

Technoboy featuring Shayla - Oh My God

Quote from e2mustang :

FearFm's top 40 hardstyle mix of december 2008

I don't have the top 40 of december but I bet it's in there

I'm impressed.. I really enjoyed it and imo it looks like you spent quite some time on it.. original idea in the beginning and the length is just alright I think

seems you messed up with the links, the dl link leads to your 200mb "feel the racing" vid (that I've already downloaded though) .. just wanted to let you know

EDIT: watched the youtube version instead - nice one, I liked it

Last edited by Jens O., Sun 11 Jan 2009, 21:19.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

prom is the dances if im right

yup, after we got to know the results of our final exams

Quote from Bose321 :

Do you mean pron?

pr0n, huh?

noo I think it was prom