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About the video:
Custom Camera, Depth of Field, Color FX, and Headlamps were added to the replay before rendering it out of TrackMania. This is my first experimentation with Depth of Field and Color FX for a video in Canyon. I really love how the sliders work for Depth of Field now. It makes it more creative and less of a "brainy" activity.
For the video, I drove about 3 different runs before getting this time of 6mins 15secs. I know faster is possible. But I felt like this was satisfactory for doing a video.
I was heavily inspired by the camera path TheDestroyer made for this video: Original Rise by bennnnnn
And more recently I found inspiration in this video Paddy made: PF - Eureka by Andriv
About the track:
I was looking through some old tracks from the beta and found this one by Kankouro25. Driving it for the first time was really an important moment for me in the beta, because it made me realize there was potential on many of the blocks beyond what we normally see (i.e. driving across the top of checkpoints).
This is possibly the first trial track ever made in Canyon. But I know for certain that it was the first trial track I ever drove in TM2. I downloaded the track on August 8, 2011, before the game went into public beta. I got the map from the private beta forums where many players were sharing their very early creations in the game.
To the best of my knowledge, the map has never been released on Mania Exchange. But for those of you who watch this video and would like to try the track yourself, I'll provide a link. I haven't touched the map in any way, except for recalculating the shadows on high quality so that you can play it with the newest version of Canyon. As a result, one part is a little darker than it was originally; but it's still drive-able.
Here the download link for the track. I hope Kankouro25 doesn't mind me sharing it. I think this first attempt at a trial in the new environment is very interesting and a lot of fun to drive.