F1000 Promotional Video

[Christopher Crowe]

Has anyone made a video that introduces F1000 in a neat way? A film aimed at folks who know nothing of the category, etc.

Specifically, I'm looking for exterior race footage, anything showing crowded grids, close racing, etc. The most photogenic stuff I've seen is from a Double Nat at Kent; the start of the Mosport pro-race, some Gulf 1000 series footage taken at the Dubai F1 circuit. Am I missing anything good?

Thanks,

Chris

PS: Also, does anyone have a link to the Runoffs footage from last year's race in the rain at RA?

[jaltaman]

here's the link to the broadcast of last year's runoffs at RA:

http://speedcasttv.com/scca/#/races/281

[R. Pare]

Chris: With your resume, I'd bet that if you wanted to take on such a project, Speedcast would most likely be willing to share their footage with you.

[Christopher Crowe]

Any chance that anyone has any private footage? The stuff I saw from Kent, for instance, was pretty damned good!

Thanks again,

Chris

[ghickman]

Chris
Talk to Nicholas Belling. He might have some in car stuff you could use. I have a bunch of video but the quality is pretty poor, GoPro pre HD not so good.

[Mike B]

You might check with Clark Cambern at speedcasttv.com. He might have footage from the Mosport pro race but I'm guessing that he would want to get paid for it so he could salvage something from that weekend, though.

This is something that I've been wanting to do since the first race in 2007 but could never muster the resources to do it right.

[glenn cooper]

I've got some incredible incar from the past few years, just not smart enough to edit it and put it up.
As far as track side is concerned - THIS sounds like your new project!
Clark's vid from Mosport in May is about the closest to what you are describing.

[Thomas Copeland]

Chris,

We are actually working on doing something like this for marketing purposes as well
As our own webcasts for the West Coast series and posting them on our website and other sites like You Tube. It's been in the plans since 2011 but we lacked resources to do it. We're still looking at it and it might actually finally become a reality next year. We are definitely looking at raising our game next year after the somewhat down year we had this year.

[Christopher Crowe]

-- will pursue.

And Tom -- the really neat way of GETTING video product on the cheap is by use of college age film-students. They'll usually work for expenses (you know, if the subject's exciting enough)... and some of them are amazingly good at the work. Arty, musical -- cool!

-- Chris

[allof6]

for two years to get some footage from people so we could do this but no decent footage was available. We have full capabilites to produce something but need the footage.

[Nicholas Belling]

I have 100's of gigs of in car footage (front and rear) as well as photos and videos pit wall side etc.

I can try to work on getting some of that content together.

Who is up for the Massive task of post editing. Allof ?

[Shadow Beverage Group, Ltd.]

be happy to put it together if you send us the content, We will try to get some additional footage from the runoffs. Feel free to contact us to make arrangements for the content.

[Christopher Crowe]

"The Shadow Do!"

Everyone should take great advantage of this kind offer by sending their video material to Shadow.

This could advance the FB cause greatly!

Viva Shadow!

-- Chris

[dwornik]

I have really great footage of the whole race from the Phoenix driven by Phil DeLaO at the ARRC race in Atlanta.....he started 3rd, dropped back to 5th and battled back to 2nd.......great footage for your ProMo video.
So tell me how and where to send it......got a link and a name?

[Shadow Beverage Group, Ltd.]

shadow beveragegroup at gmail.com

Remove the spaces.

[glenn cooper]

So everyone is moving on this, right?

[jaltaman]

The files are just too large to send as email attachments.

Anyone have a server we can post them to?

[JakeL]

Strange, I could have sworn I posted on this before Runoffs.

I can aggregate them on my webserver and we can go from there - e-mail me for details.

Mike Beauchamp uploaded his video from Runoffs, as well as some track-side video from some students from U of W that were there for a film class of some variety.

I also have Phil DeLaO's video from ARRC a while back that Stefan sent.

Everybody else, if you have video to share, let me know.

Once we have it aggregated, I can stick it on a memory stick/DVD/HDD/Whatever, and send it to whoever's doing the video work.

Sound reasonable?

-Jake
jake.latham@gmail.com

[jaltaman]

All over again!

Thanks Jake!

[JakeL]

Alright all you all-talk-and-no-video F1000 drivers.

I've got video from:
Mike Beauchamp
John LaBrie
Phil DeLaO/Stefan Dwornik
Jake Latham

and that's it. Where are the usual suspects?

Dixon?
Coop?
Belling?
Coop?
Richard F?
Coop?

-Jake

[Christopher Crowe]

Good for you, Jake.

As I've said, I think a lot might be done if people were to enthusiastically cooperate on putting together a good video. Without exposure, even the good people at Shadow will have to little to show in return for their kind support of F1000.

Come on, folks, this can be a very good thing!

Thanks,

Chris

[starkejt]

Dixon has vids on his YT channel.

[Mike B]

Dixon has vids on his YT channel.

Here's a direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjv9kLZZkEo

[starkejt]

My bad. I meant his Citation channel, not his personal channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/citationengineering

[Revs2-12k]

Plenty of vids here Jake!

http://www.youtube.com/VFROOOOM

[JakeL]

Guys -

YouTube is only a streaming service.

You can't download/capture the actual file without installing almost universally dodgy capture software. I don't really want to go through that brain damage. If you have a video, then whoever does the editing will need the raw file, not just a YouTube link.

I'll make another go-round of looking at the capture/download software out there and see if there's a reasonable one these days for those that don't want to go the file transfer route, but for your guys' part at least, choose a few videos you think are highlight-worthy rather than posting a channel of 50 videos to sift through eh?

close racing, race starts, and spins are best viewing, not just "here's me doing 25 laps in a race by myself"

-J

[RussMcB]

I have some video, and some of it *might* be interesting enough to send. But, it's a challenge finding the time to view it all to see what might be good.

Then, I assume it would need to be edited before sending, because I wouldn't expect someone to sit through a lot of my non-exciting video. There's more time & effort.

But, assuming I do those steps above, is there an easy way to get it to who needs it? Can you/they download it from Vimeo? Drop Box? I've struggled with this a few times and it's always been a challenge.

Uploading to an FTP site sounds easiest, but I don't see above if that was set up.

[Mike Devins]

http://ge.tt/ this is the site that we use to transfer our music (not pirated, all originals, please don't arrest us). First 2G is free, don't know what the cost is above that.

[terryeaton]

Jake,
Below is a link to a YouTube downloader, does a prettty good job. It has a free version that works and was recommended by cnet.

http://www.youtubedownloadersite.com/