Nice vid. What's the name of the song you used the first 30 seconds or so?

Congratulations. :]

Quote from BigTime :

Where to start... The first two videos where lackluster and like you said, they lacked major amounts of camera smoothing. They also lack anything interesting to watch, racing wise.

I didn't really feel that way about the vids until a few days later, when I watched them again. That's when I noticed that I didn't really get alot of action in the movie. Of course I will try to improve this. The camera smoothing got improved, but not enough apparently so I will use some more in the future. Any advice on how much camera smoothing I should use?

Quote from BigTime :

Now the third video was decent. I saw some camera smoothing but it still could use a little more. The main things I didn't like about the video were: the over use of following cameras, many of the following cam angles where used more than once, if not three times, and once again the lack thereof action. However, this one was a big improvement. I think with a little more zoom, more original camera angles, and more variety, you will have some pretty impressive videos. Just have to get angles that not only look good but show case the action at the same time, those usually go hand in hand.

The longer sequences of the sweeping camera is liked by a few, and also by me since I think it looks good and it's a nice way to catch some action. But I agree that I used that type of camera view alot, mostly because I'm not a big fan of static cameras. But if I think about it, it's not always about what I like.

Thanks, I will take a look at this thread when I'm in the making of the next vid, and try to make use of any/all advices I get.

Edit: lol squid. I was prepared for that. We all start somewhere and I came here for advice on how to improve. All I'm saying. ;]

Yo.
I've made three movies from the last 3 SCC races, the thought was to just publish the movies in the swedish forum, dedicated to the participants of the cup. But now I'm bored and thought that I could share them with you guys on this forum, and take some criticism, both negative and positive so I know what to improve for the upcoming movies. I am prepared for harsh criticism from squid in particular, as the movies I'm about to post isn't really top notch, it's actually quite far from top notch. I will however post the mistakes I know of to each movie.

First one, FZR at AS North, can be found at youtube or lfs videos. This one has some very jerky camera movements in the beginning, and also I decided to use some strange path for the camera around the field. Lack of camera smoothing throughout the vid, and I also used the same clip several times.

The second one, XFR at FE Gold, can be found at youtube.
With this one I tried some special effects as you can see in the beginning, but I wasn't really happy with the result. The same type of camera path in the beginning, as I thought I'd use that as "my theme", the type of thing I do in every movie. The song I used in this movie wasn't really easy to use in an LFS vid, but I tried, some parts worked out fine, others.. well.. didn't. Heh. One problem I see in this movie is the fps, for some reason I had some fps drops and I didn't see this until I rendered the movie. By that time it was too late to fix. The fps does however improve in the end of the movie, for some reason. I increased camera smoothing, and tried to use some camera angles that isn't really "normal". Some works, others are just strange.

The last one, XFR at Kyoto National, can be found at youtube or lfs videos. Yet again I picked a song which wasn't really easy to use. All the movies so far had a slow intro between 40 seconds up to a minute, so does this one. I do realize that a movie should be made so the viewer catches interest in the movie and wishes to continue watching. With a slow intro this is hard to do, so that's something I might have to improve a bit on. In the youtube version, the overview on the track doesn't really look good. At some point the camera goes through a car. A few "blablabla made a pit stop"-messages shows up at some point, something that I dislike. As well as the green text that shows up in the chat when you turn on/off sound, it got recorded by accident. The on-board cam cuts through the roof when I looked to my left, I didn't notice this either until it was too late.

Three movies and my opinion about them. Some mistakes here and there and as I said, definately not top notch. Although I do see some improvement from my first vid, to be honest.

Looking forward to see what you guys think, although I do understand if alot of you doesn't have the time to look through three vids and give criticism about them all.

I would like those 18 seconds of my life back.

Quote from batteryy :

whats the song? very nice video

Skillet - Whispers in the dark

Good vid Fellan. :]

Watching a shaky camera for 3½ minutes sure made me dizzy.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Lol, you DID read the rest of the thread, right?

As I said, I'm bad at sensing sarcasm. ;]

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Are you kidding? I overclocked my hard-drive to 42,000 RPM and it practically doubled my framerate!!!

Heh, I don't know whether you are serious or not with that since I'm bad at sensing sarcasm, but I'd just want to say that it might be possible to make a harddisk to spin faster, but the circuits won't have time to read the information on the disk, as the harddrive is made for a certain amount of RPMs.

Excellent work.
I guess that I am "(SWE) re", so thanks for dedicating it to me also. :]

Last edited by [SWE]RE, Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:45. Reason : Added another sentence.

Youtube?

Quote from XCNuse :

Great effects and all, but I can't read 100 words a second!!!!!

kinda ruined the movie that the words stayed up for really.. less than even a full second on the longer sentences!

+1

But apart from that it's a good movie. Indeed. Gj.

I'm with squiddy on this one.

Quote from hughesie89 :

how do you add content to it?

You do realize that you just bumped a thread that's 2 years old? And the guy who created the thread haven't been on these forums since the 30th november last year. lol. :]

Nice vid, but uh.. where are the special effects..?

Quote from Dooonster :

also how do i block messages in MPR replays?

Open your cfg.txt (located in your LFS folder), find the line "MPR Message Block 0", and change it to "MPR Message Block 1". Save and exit. It should solve that problem.

How about playing GTA:SA or something instead of ruining a racing simulator?

Quote from Skarpegg :

Damn crappy update of the game.. KT burning out in one dounut, to get the car on track again.. well i wait and see what the next update will bring. And maybe ill play then. Adios...

Lägg ner nu. Du behöver inte lägga av med LFS bara för detta. Använd automatisk koppling istället så ska du se att du kan göra donuts och burnouts utan större problem. Jag kör med automatisk koppling och har aldrig haft några problem med att kopplingen brinner upp efter att jag gjort en donut eller burnout. Det är inget fel på patchen, snarare på dina inställningar eller hur du kör.

And to the rest that doesn't understand swedish, I basically told him that he should use automatic clutch instead, I'm using it and I have never ever encountered any problems with the clutch burning up when I'm doing a donut or burnout. Surely the heat increases a bit but it doesn't get that hot so it starts slipping. And also I said that it's nothing wrong with the patch but either his settings in LFS or the way he drives.

Quote from Rowddy Dutch :

i can select gear give gas etc. but the car won't drive. now if i look at the replay it looks the car wants to go but stops at the same moment.

That makes me think that you're stalling the engine. Are you using automatic, or manual clutch? If manual, try changing it to automatic and try to drive that way. Because this doesn't sound like any hardware problem, nor does it sound like a problem with how you set up the G25 in LFS.

I made myself a custom view. As long as the car has a passenger seat, I'm sitting on it. Otherwise it's from the drivers seat.

I agree. Some nice racing there.

Happy new year!

Quote from mantvisrep :

if this is awsome start...then i should post mine starts...

What are you waiting for? :]

Good start btw. Alot of luck in it though but we all need luck in the starts.

Nice. Merry christmas guys. :]

Youtube? :]