Updated with SPR and new number.

LFS Username : Hypothraxer
Real Name : David Novak
Team : iCON Racing
Preferred Number : 81

Last edited by Hypothraxer, Sun 29 Nov 2009, 16:54.

Name : David Novak
LFS Username : Hypothraxer
Preferred number (02-99): 07
(I'll try to be there but it depends if I can get my PC hooked up or not).

Very well made indeed - although I don't like the blueish-tint.

(Looks like everything about the iTCC is turning into gold The events, the intros, highlights and trailers ).

Quote from J@tko :

On the fixed set-up theme, I think that the sets are near enough to each other anyway, people might be a tad quicker in a straight line and then slower in the corners. In a single-car series, it gives you that little advantage that you can utilise to get past people.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. In South City I didn't stand a chance because I was ~3 - 5 km/h slower on the straights than anyone else. On the other hand I received a 'very good' setup for Fern Bay - and drove the fastest lap in session 3 there. I'm not sure what would've happened if I had such a good setup for all races. So it can still make quite the difference

What I'd like to see are heavier penalties for avoidable crashes under yellow flags and of course chatting while the grid is being sorted.

The video-editing is very good. But from my point of view the interaction between the audio and video (especially regarding the drums) could be better - and would probably also give the video a bit more tension.

Still - it's an amazing video.

I don't like the washed-out colours that much but apart from that it's a very good video. The camera angles are exceptional.

Quote from [no]Kill :

Second, just a warning regarding price money. It is a very bad idea to have a personally price in a team competition, such as GTAL. That will totally ruin the team spirit.

True words. It also goes against the term 'amateur league'.

Nicely done indeed!

(You can increase the volume of the commentator audio track while applying a low-pass filter to it. That way it should be more audible without having those nasty high-pitched spikes in it. Seemed to work for me).

Nicely done!

This is very nice news indeed.

One question: Is it possible to know a little bit more about the way the surveying was done? Which laserscanner was used, was the camera mounted on the scanner or positioned arbitrarily, how as the data reduction done etc.?

Being a surveying engineer myself and also doing a PhD in the same area, this would be very interesting for me to know

As usual I dropped to last place at the beginning of the race, after an unexpected bump and a failed attempt to brake. Sorry to all who bumped into me. I tried to reverse out of it but in doing so already bumped someone so I decided to stay there.

Then I destroyed my engine at the ~35 minute mark because of a mis-shift into first gear which made me lose 3 - 4 km/h on the straight and about 1 second per lap.

So it was mostly a lonely race but at least I finished

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It was a very nice race even though I was on my own all the time. And for some reason I always encountered the slower cars in that uphill chicane. Appear somewhere else next time!

Thanks a lot for uploading it!

As for the commentary: I don't hear a difference between the youtube version and the ones I have here. There might be some form of normalizing going on, when you upload it to youtube. But for me, it sounds equal.

I thought I'd open this up to announce that I'll miss round 7 since it is on 1. of August which is the Swiss National Holiday, which in turn means, that I'll be somewhere in the mountains...drinking

I've upsampled the video to 1280x960 - but I'm not sure if that'll work (it's after all still 4:3 instead of 16:9). The quality is surprisingly good considering I didn't record it anew, but I've spent some more bits due to the larger resolution so it's a bit bigger (not sure if that's needed - I didn't really have the time to do a detailed analysis).

You can get it here:
http://n.ethz.ch/~dnovak/download/iTCC2009up-muxed.zip

(Still with x264 - I sadly don't have free CPU cycles to run 3 XviD passes at the moment).

Ho hum. I've recorded everything at 1024x768. I'll try to upscale it with AviSynth to the next near mod16 4:3 resolution. Out of curiosity: What happens when you just upload the MP4? I have a faint memory that youtube now actually plays MP4's.

Quote from BigTime :

I've been meaning to ask this, and I should have done this before the thread dropped so far... Do you have this posted on YouTube? If not, I can host it for you with credits in the title.

I just need it on Youtube so I can use it as an embed stream.

As I don't have a youtube account it isn't there. If you want to host it, feel free to do so (thanks in advance ). If you need anything (like a .f4v or .flv file) please say so. I don't really know how youtube handles that (it probably converts everything, regardless what it is?), so if you need anything, please tell me.

Quote from N I K I :

btw what's the songs name, I've listened it so many times, but never knew the name, so I can download it

Mötley Crüe - Kickstart my Heart.

Quote from seniecka :

Looking from review style video point - its best video i've ever seen.

Just remember that it's meant as a highlights video - and not as a review video (review videos tend to be more informative). The aim was to create something similar to this style (cool looking, a bit of information, and - uh - cool looking): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adY5qtSsajE

(Whoops - giving away all my inspirational sources )

I really like the colours. They're far more subtle than mine. Nice video!

Thanks for all the nice comments! I wasn't really sure at the end if it's good or not but apparently it's decent enough Although I have to say that it would be only half as good without the commentators. Thanks guys! You did an amazing job.

Regarding the filesize: It could've been 10 - 20% smaller if I'd have gone for 30 FPS instead of 60 - but it's a bit smoother with 60 so I guess the tradeoff is okay.
If anyone's interested in the settings, I've uploaded the screenshots of the x264 settings in meGUI: Here, here and here. With further readings here, here, here and here. While each video requires its own fine-tuning I think it should be a decent starting point (done with build 1173 of x264 - options always subject to change. I guess 2'500 KBits would've been also enough).