RBRR Time-Lapse

[Craig Gingell]

I remember as a kid being fascinated by the short films showing London to Brighton in three minutes by train. Using a technique called time-lapse the train would head off at great speed darting and weaving through the stations before arriving at its destination in record time.

Last year on the 10CR with James Carruthers and Andrew Dawson we talked about how cool it would be to produce a time-lapse of an event such as the RBRR or 10CR.

I set about reading up how to do it. I'm no camera expert, but I am fascinated by photography. Here's our first instalment from The Plough to Blyth Services.

There's two versions - the quick and easy download -

http://www.vimeo.com/1907613

and the mega cool HD version -

http://www.vimeo.com/1913782

(depending on your internet connection it may be best to let the video fully download first before playing it)

I'd like to thank -

My co-driver Mark Bland for all his patience over 48 hours changing/charging battery packs, swapping and downloading memory cards!
Ellis Stokes for lending me his invertor when we thought ours had packed up (sorry for melting the plug Ellis!)
Mark's wife Shirley turning out at Pimperne with some more memory as we thought we were going to run out!
James for loads of technical assistance!

More later...

Craig

[Spitfire2500]

That's brilliant  :) Just out of interest I'd love to see the JOG / Conon Bridge / Stirling sections done like that if you have them

[Nick B.]

Lovely - recaps the event nicely. Bring on next !

Cheers
Nick

[Jason]

Atlas spotted at 0.50 and 1.36 :-) - that's really very good Craig

[Craig Gingell]

I think you'll find the Atlas makes quite a few repeat appearances...

[tiggrr1]

Craig that is brilliantly done 8) especialy the HD clip

Can't wait for the next bits!!!

Can they be downloaded from the site.........................or could I host them on photobucket for you, I'm sure others would like a copy of them too :)

[Jason]

If you've got Real player installed it will download them for you. Just out of interest Craig, how much data did you record?

[tiggrr1]

Thanks for the tip Jason :)

Off to sort out Real Player ;)

[Tim Bancroft]

Saw 4 cars that I could recognise:

Francis Moll's TR7 DHC,

Fred and Dave's 2000 mk1

Tony Quick's 1300

Dave and Jason's Atlast.

I like it, can I suggest a song that is 2.13 long might be better-great song is 'Road to nowhere', but it was a road to somewhere!!!

I like the bits were mark changes the position of his hands going around roundabouts-looks weird.

[Alex]

That is so cool Craig well done I look forward to some more.

[Deleted User]

Superb, funily thought that's just how i remember it

[Caroline]

Amazing. Utterly brilliant. What an excellent idea and how cool!! I love the bonnet opening bits and when you park up and abandon the car for a couple of seconds! Fantastic. Can't wait for the rest of the installments. :)

[GT6boy]

It's the Millenium Falcon at light speed in a Triumph ;D 8)! That is amazing Craig- well done. :)

[Craig Gingell]

timbancroft61 wrote:

I like it, can I suggest a song that is 2.13 long might be better-great song is 'Road to nowhere', but it was a road to somewhere!!!

I've got 13 more videos to process, so feel free to suggest some suitable soundtracks...

[tr4tom]

that was great to watch, nice one!!!

[Craig Gingell]

Jason wrote:

Just out of interest Craig, how much data did you record?

Other than when the camera crashed, ran out of memory or power, we were taking one picture every second. I'll let you work out the maths...

[Tim Bancroft]

Roadrunner: Bo Diddley

[thescrapman]

I think we were doing 1 every 2 seconds.

And not recording when it was running down the cars battery.

You should have done 20GB??

Darren posted ours under RBRR videos this morning.

Cheers

Colin

[James]

There you go Craig - the nickname for your car - they all need one.

I hereby name it "the millenium falcon"

[Keith]

Brilliant Craig,
I admire your patience!
Look forward to seeing the rest of it. Are you OK for somewhere to host it?

Keith

[32valves]

Sound track suggestion ? What else but 'Livin' on a Prayer' - Bon Jovi (how many of us were fingers crossed ?)

or how about The Cure - 'Just like heaven'

or Lloyd Cole - 'Are you ready to be Heartbroken ?'

or The Cult - 'Rain'

(or maybe not  ;))

[Tim Bancroft]

RBRR: Bon Jovi- No!

Cannot think of anything worse, bubble perms next-eck!

[32valves]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[lordleonusa]

Millennium Falcoln?

Soundtrack should be from Star Wars!

L

[Greeks]

Cool. I'd go for The Byrds "Mr Tambourine Man" ... nice and short and kind of suits the RBRR I reckon.

Or something a bit Quadrophenia ... I think you can figure out why  ;)