I shot this a few weeks ago during a trip to the city and back, my wife was driving. I'd seen something like this before done on the XHA1, which I think was prove that you didn't need an overpriced variable frame rate camera to achieve shots like this. So I guess this is proof you don't even need something as expensive as an XHA1! There's a few parts that go out of focus, so I'll have to set the focus manually next time. But overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. There's a BIG plug for Canon in there, which I was going to remove, except that it kind of fit the change in the music.

Technical stuff - Shot in TV mode at 1/6 second shutter speed. Sped up in Vegas 4x, which is the maximum, rendered and then sped up 3x.

Anyway, here it is, roughly 83mb - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N2Y01FVY

Also, incase anyone's interested, I did the music using Acid 6 which took about 2 hours total. You can hear the full track on my MySpace page here - http://www.myspace.com/avene

"The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable"

That's weird, I just tested it and works fine.

Hi Glenn,

I'm also getting "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable."

best,

Steve.

Me too. Can't access

Strange, it still works here. I'll upload it to my Stage 6 page.. That should work.

The download worked for me. Man your wife drives fast!! Very nicely done. This reminds me of...forget his name, but he's famous for all his high speed, high def footage on INHD channel.

Hi Steve, thanks, glad someone got it to work! I don't know of the guy you're talking about, but curious to see what he's done. Might have a look.

The clip's just been published on my Stage 6 page, which took a while. It's a 720P version also. URL - http://stage6.divx.com/user/avene This should stream in realtime once it's buffered for a few seconds. Can be downloaded too of course. Roughly 63mb

I've also posted it to my Myspace videos page if you're on a slower connection. URL - http://www.myspace.com/avenemovies

The WMV version is still the best, if you can get it to work.

It looks really cool!
Like the editing and the music fit well, good job and thx for sharing!

Cheers!

That is just superb!

Seriously, that turned out really really nice!

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When you say "1/6 second shutter speed"...

how do you set that with the cam?

Nice work. Curious, how'd you mount the camera? Looked pretty steady. Thanks.

Thanks for the comments. I had the camera in TV mode with the shutter speed set to 1/6. It was on a small Manfrotto tripod that I held onto. There wasn't much space for it though.

Nice, nice, NICE! Very inspirational.

Hi Mark, thanks for the kind comment. First time anyone's ever called something I've done inspirational!

Loved this Glenn. Can see why you didn't want to cut the canon sign - it does fit the music! Did you zoom in to the back of the bus, or was that just the motion of the bus and your car? And the music is nice too... well done!
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Hi Matt, and thanks :) Yeah, at least Canon get a decent plug in there.

No, there was no zooming, the bus just kept stopping. It was peak hour late afternoon here and there were less lanes open for travelling into the city which is why the traffic became a bit congested.

I might try this again sometime with the focus issue sorted. Also need to find a way of speeding up the footage in Vegas more than 400%. I'm sure there's a script that can do this, I just need to track it down.

Oh, one thing I keep forgetting to mention. Look out for the truck in front of us towards the start of the clip being flashed by the red light camera. It only lasts 2 frames. You can easiliy see the lights were already red before he went through. I'm not sure the exact fine, but it would have cost him at least $100.

Nice video! Did you do color correction to generate the final WMV or have special in camera tricks to reduce the low light grain? I tried something similar with TV-6 setting without adjusting the exposure.

Hi Mike, all I did was adjust the overall levels using the histogram as a guide. Mostly just to bring the blacks. At the 1/6 shutter speed there wasn't much low light grain, so that helped improve the image quality a bit.

Glenn, funny thing with my attempt there was some visible grain in the sky where it was pitch black sky. Crushed them out with color curves and the effect of compression seemed to help too. Its not as interesting as sydney but here's my night drive through the suburbs to a city.

http://stage6.divx.com/user/YouSillyMan/video/1462297/

Hi Mike, can't believe it's taken me 5 months to check back on this thread! Need to visit here more often. Great looking clip. Looks like you've got some nice freeways there to make the overall trip run a lot smoother.

Now I'm inspired to do another one. The fireworks footage my wife shot from the car as I drove accross the bridge the other night didn't come out as well as I hoped it would. Bit too shakey.. Should have just set up the tripod.