This weekend wasn’t a bad weekend in terms of racing. It was the last race of the season so I only ran Saturday but managed to come in second. I took second in the last corner of the last lap from the same guy I took third away from last year (in the exact same fashion). I have video of that and plan to spend the next week or so putting together my own video. I ended up in 5th on the year, which isn’t great, but it was nice to end on a high note. I still haven’t gotten that elusive race win yet.
Speaking of videos, included below is one I made from stuff my dad shot while we watched Sunday’s non-points race. He wanted me to get something up last night and it was my first time using Sony Vegas in earnest so it’s pretty basic. The software itself seems fairly robust, it’s just a matter of figuring out how the hell to do what I want. It’s a lot like using Photoshop as a beginner… you know you can do great things, you just don’t know how. I did manage a soundtrack and some transitions but I know there’s way more out there for me to find. My first attempt at rendering netted a 1.5 gb AVI but finally settled on this MPEG format that got me a 140 mb video. Considering it’s 7:30 minutes, I don’t think the weight is that bad, I just don’t like the side bars on it. I’ll have to mess with it more to see what I can come up with.
Finally, I wanted to do a brief intro on why I chose Vimeo for this video. Everyone knows that I don’t know how to use the internet without Jeff and he recently switched back to Vimeo. His ravings about it and the fact that this video was over YouTube’s 100 mb limit made it a pretty easy choice. Vimeo has better quality and sets limits based on the calendar, not individual files… which I like. I did have problems with the upload freezing twice in IE while I was browsing in other windows. I tried it in Firefox and didn’t touch my computer and it worked fine. I’m not sure which piece was the culprit was but it was annoying. Hopefully it’s not an on-going issue.
That said, I’m not sure if I’m going to make the official “switch” yet though. I have several people who subscribe to my race videos on YouTube and I don’t necessarily want to whore them. Besides, the thought of moving all my videos over kinda stresses me out. Anyway, enjoy this (basic!) video for now. Take note that I didn’t actually shoot the footage so don’t grill me on that! Make sure you turn it up, the song makes it so much more interesting than it really is! (Best part starts ~4:15)
P.S. – Aside from the actual score, I was pretty much spot on about the Pats/Cowboys game.