pic 1: Will Dendy cruising along
pic 2: Scotty trying very hard to keep 3rd
pic 3: The 4Sight Racing Team (from left to right: Andyc, Swifty, W.Dendy, Scotty)
Well is it sliced up? Nobody wants to watch something that just takes forever to get to a certain part (Because raw camera footage can be quite boring).
If not already, I would cut it up a bit to make a smaller size. And make two versions, high and low quality.
Use a bitrate calculator so that you don't waste any space on that CD! Probably best to aim for a couple of MB just to play safe. Files tend to be slightly oversized just when you don't want them to be (unless you use constant bitrate, but it's not the 90's anymore)
It could be useful to resize the image a bit, the video wouldn't need to be any larger than 640, that would help it compress better.
Depending on the grainyness of the image a noise filter could prove useful too.
Just reading through this thread, and noticed something very very important was missed, so I will fill you in.
After receiving various phone calls about Will, Tristan and Scotty being homeless, they made a move to my hotel. Now I will try my best to describe what can only be perceived as one of the funniest moments.
You know in scary movies, when people walk across gravel, you here a slow slow quick quick slow foot steps. Well Will done this. I was crying with laughter by the time. And then Will poked his head around the wall, like playing peek a boo. Another moment when I wished my camara battery was working.
we were outside shifty's house, and we were talking about what to do. so then tristan said "we could see if fordman is still awake" so i said, "yea, i have his number" so i then preceeded to phone him.
tristan then said, "he will be pretty tired" so i quickly handed the phone over to tristan where he bluntly said to fordie "can we sleep on your floor" i cracked up laughing, and fordie was calling tristan various insults over the phone
ROFL great fun!
Just wait until the race report, some hillarious moments happened
Hmm What like Scotty throwing his toys out of the kart because he hit the barrier and had to wait for the marshel to turn him around. Sorry scotty, but i was in tears, and also, was on the brink of calling 999 as i thought u was fitting. Whats that poor steering wheel ever done to you
Oh give me some credit, it was past 2am. I didn't say nothing he didn't deserve
Just a tip - try de-interlacing the video. It will look better and compress better (so for the same bitrate, will look better still). Also means when I pause I should see something other than a load of lines (I can't work out which one is me!)
When we finally turned up at Fordies room, we all huddled in quietly. The lights were off, and we wanted to attract the least attention possible.
Suddenly, ThreeJump sat bolt upright, and I could just make out his eyes looking really wide (and possibly terrified) when he realised 3 extra guys were standing at the foot of his bed.
Then we turned the light on, and he went from being fairly scared (it could have been murderers) to absolutely f*****g petrified when he realised who it actually was!!!!
Again, I wish I had had a camera pointing at him at the precise moment, but alas it was not to be...