Mansram01

Here's my first video. Using a GoPro Hero with the Chesty chest strap mount. I was originally concerned with it being uncomfortable and awkward. Not bad actually. What's interesting is adjusting the camera angles between climbs and descents. Tried to keep the video light with captions. I have Dashware but still need to learn it.

This is a short section from Clear Creek down Angeles Crest towards La Canada (in Los Angeles).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6hlJema2n0

gvg45

I'll download and give it a try, thanks.

I've downloaded and used bike telemetry. So far I like it but I prefer the lay-out options I've seen with Dashware the best.

archimeaties

You'll find that SUFFERvision really has just one way of showing the data, which you may or may not like. It will definitely be less interesting if you don't have power data. My aims have been (1) to provide as much perspective as possible on the athlete's performance (hence the power time series and logscale trailing average/max power chart), (2) to obscure the video as little as possible, and (3) to process 1080p video in realtime on modern hardware so it remains easy and fast to work with the tool. Hope you enjoy!

NoTrail

This past summer, my brother and I did some credit card touring from Seattle to San Francisco to raise money for LIVESTRONG. We rode 1,100 miles in 11 days.

Along the way, we recorded a bunch of it which I have finally finished editing together into an almost 28 minute video. I know that sounds really long, but I assure you it's entertaining. I just thought I'd post this up here in case anyone was interested in watching our epic voyage. This time of year, it's nice to see some nice cycling routes when it's too nasty to ride them.

Some Trip Details:

• We rode about 100 miles per day with a single day off in the middle.
• We had a chase vehicle and met every 20-25 miles for more food, beverage, and tubes (as needed).
• Only my brother and I rode the full 11 days. A third rode with us on the first day only and the fourth joined us for the last 5 days.
• Everything was shot on a GoPro HD, Canon, or iPhone.
• The entire movie was edited with iMovie.

https://vimeo.com/34739676

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Jandro 

Great video! You guys rock.

NoTrail

Thanks, I just wish we could tour like that all year round.

0100

Yeah great video!

Rimmer

Great thread. Why is ***'s err u-m-d's name censored?

VA_Esquire

He was banned for going against SOPA.

kleinboogie

There's a rabbit loose on the trail. This is a snippet of the solo training ride video I'm uploading later on. Funny thing is I don't remember seeing it. Enjoy.

djb

well, its obvious, your glasses are the type that have the anti-reflection+no-bunny-see-um filter layer on them.

just a second or two later and you could have a nice stew post-ride, add spuds, carrots, some spices, voila.

Da Sherm

Here is my first ride video. I used Dashware for the gauges and Windows Live Movie maker to "shorten" the ride to fit in 15 minutes. I used a ContourHD mounted on the left side of my fork. For some reason when I exported the GPS data from Garmin Connect I didn't get any cadence data.

This is me biking around the town where I live in Belgium. Be jealous of all the cyclists around town a few minutes into the video, especially around the train station where they are treated like real vehicles on the road.

Again, it's a little long and I'm sure the gauge/video synchronization is off:

kleinboogie

Heh, true. I'd have to scrape it off the wheel first.

kleinboogie

Heh, true. I'd have to scrape it off the wheel first.

Here's the full video. My attempt to take a 1:15 hour solo training ride and cram it into 7 minutes and seem mildly interesting. Two things did happen that made it exciting for me; the rabbit and hitting a manhole awkwardly that kicked out my back wheel going 30mph.

Yotsko

I'm still pretty new and making videos, but I made this one for some of the guys in my club. It kills me how much time editing takes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1sLOOLdQg

kleinboogie

I like it. The fog in the trees on the descents is awesome. Agreed that editing is a big time suck. Throw in gauges, multiple cameras and color grading and an afternoon can go bye-bye quite easily. Cheers

NoTrail

Personally, I love the editing of the videos almost as much as the ride itself.

Yotsko

Actually, I enjoy it too. It's just very time consuming and I'm not super proficient. I'm only using windows movie maker right now and I have a hard time cutting and then actually keeping clips organized!

carpediemracing 

There are clips that I've easily spent 50 hours on, in 2-6 hour segments. The longest was a non-bike one, trying to sync music to the band (a month of steady panic work, then a couple/few more weeks of refinement - it was meant to be a Christmas present for my brother). But even race stuff takes a long time. Some of the ones from 2007, where I was trying to upload within a day or two of the race, I was working 8-9 hours a night on them for a couple nights, and those vids were terrible.

I've put in maybe 20-30 hours into a few clips I haven't gotten close to finishing, mainly 2011 crits (the 2011 SoCal hacking clip came out of one of them). For me storyline is important, i.e. there should be something that draws in the viewer (my standard viewer is me as I make these clips the way I want them to be). If I think a clip is boring while I'm editing it I put it aside and try and think of what would make it more interesting. I personally enjoy watching my own clips - I find them motivating when on the trainer (it helps that I lived the moments myself).

For example, that hacking clip is a combination of three clips I wanted to do separately, but when I started to put together one (the hacking around) I realized I didn't have a lot of usable material (I cut out 10 min of various scenes around SoCal, mainly PCH or Palomar routes). Part of it was the track standing, and I had consciously looked down to record the good shadow of me (normally I look forward). The other part was one of two Wohlford descents I liked, where I caught a car. There's another better, faster Wohlford descent, and a Palomar one, but I quickly realized they wouldn't fit on one clip, so I grabbed the boring Wohlford one.

All that decision/selection process took me two evenings at the computer, and I finally decided to throw a bunch of stuff together, hence the "hack" name.

I have those few clips to edit but simply haven't found time/motivation to do it. It's a passionate thing, editing these videos. If it isn't passionate then I stop because something is wrong with what I'm doing with the clip.

kleinboogie

I've done the same. The shortest ones seem to be the hardest because of trying to make it interesting without flipping from scene to scene to quickly to fit in the timeline. I finally started using the editing cursors like rolling edit, ripple edit, etc. to sync to the beat of the music. Not easy but it is fun.

Job well done. I've watched your videos over and over looking for tips. Your commentary really sets your work apart from everything else out there. Not sure if you figured it out, or even tried, but your passion for sharing is what pushed me to get into recording rides and races. Thanks. Keep it up.

btw, you doing Red Trolley this year? Cya

carpediemracing 

No Red Trolley for me this year as I won't be going to SoCal. I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms as I really enjoy visiting my host family (husband was my best man, obviously a really really good friend, his wife is great, and their two young kids are fantastic as well). I got an email from Red Trolley saying registration is open; my friend texted me that he's having withdrawal symptoms (I usually breathe life into their own cycling); and I'm training and thinking about all the roads I like riding on in SoCal.

I appreciate the kind words about the videos. A musician (not one of my brothers) said to me once that performing his original music onstage was like standing naked in front of everyone - you feel really exposed to the world. Obviously it takes a certain kind of person (exhibitionist?) to want to do share videos or music or whatever, but part of it is borne from the desire to share better/cleaner racing, some riding techniques, and to illustrate some of the concepts I think are basic to cycling (like taking proper lines through turns/corners).

Along those lines I appreciate/welcome critical feedback ("dude, you spelled my name wrong!" or "um why did you start the music there, it makes no sense") and understand the taste/opinion differences (usually to do with my music choices). I really want to hear the former because it helps me improve. I figure the latter is like disagreeing with a chef's dish - no matter what I've always had a throat constricting reaction to gamey meat (venison, duck, lamb) and get nauseous when I even smell bleu cheese or Gorgonzola. So the best chef in the world could prepare the best venison dish and I wouldn't like it. No offense given, no offense taken.

The short clips are really challenging. The concert clip was the worst for me, and it's even worse because when I play it on the Mac everything syncs up, but off of YouTube it's all off.

Initially it was really hard with the 10 minute limit. Then, when I could upload 15 minute clips, I realized that I was quickly running out of music. As it is I already recycle about 15 pieces, and a 15 minute clip may have room for 6 or 8 pieces. I can't use a lot of music my brothers have played simply because they don't fit. In fact there aren't that many bits of music I'd use even if I could. For me the music really amplifies my adrenaline reaction to the clip, therefore making it more exciting to me. I guess that's why there's music in action movies, to amplify the effect of the action.

kleinboogie

I hope you have a great season and keep posting videos and updating your blog. I'm using your advice on gluing tubulars and like my racing, I'm a work in progress. Youtube should have upgraded your account to >15mins by now. I'm not sure how it works but I don't have those limits anymore. I used to perform music back in the big hair days and I didn't feel naked but having a few hundred people in a club looking at you and expecting to be entertained, it's a big responsibility. One thing I found out was you can make little mistakes and as long as you keep going forward, nobody (or maybe 1 other guitarist) will even know what happened. Cheers

carpediemracing 

Heh. The tubular gluing stuff is up there partially so people don't roll tires in front of me, partially to try and convince riders that tubulars really work. Because they do.

I'll have to check on the limits - Last time I was at 15 min, but it's been a while.

I used to play violin a lot, a "Cat 2" I'd call myself. As such I only played classic pieces so I never felt very exposed. Well, in recitals I did, when I basically played on my own, but I understand what you're saying about only a few people, if any, notice your errors. I've listened to a few recordings of the orchestra (had to record off the radio) and I can't believe how bad we sound. Haha! We were just kids though. I think the conductor must have been so stressed each performance. Relating to the videos, I discard masses of text at a time, and I had some auto-save issues with iMovie at the beginning, so here and there text phrases stayed in place. My favorite clip (content wise) also has one of the worst of the text errors. So far no one's said anything, personally or publicly.

I'm trying to get on a schedule again with the blog but I have to admit it's a bit tough. I'll have good fodder for blogging this year I hope; last year was uninspiring for the most part. Clips - I'm typing from the new main floor "office". I moved the various Mac stuff upstairs so I'll work on it more. We'll see if it helps.

Carloswithac

What part of San Diego is that trail at? It looks familiar.

X-LinkedRider

I can't disagree more... If I was any good at editing videos and enjoyed it at all... I would probably have 100s. I do database programming for a reeason. I'll post my latest video when it's finished rendering. (just made a cheezy recap video)