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http://youtu.be/64NFiRVIx6g

Hey there. First time on forum too, so not too sure I'm doing this all right.

I picked up TM2 Valley a week or so ago and have been pretty hooked. I tried to design a reasonably realistic town racetrack, then slowly as I learned how to use the replay editor I figured out ghost cars and such, so made it a bit of a race.

A couple of questions with the editor, the close up shots where cars pass in front or over the camera tends to bloom out for a second. Any idea why this would be the case? Is it just how the game handles bloom?

Depth of field. Couldn't figure out for the life of me how to use it.
Exporting sound? Whenever I shot an avi it would come without sound, so I just FRAPS the sound and synced it up later.

Finally with shooting the video I ended up going with an H264 compressor on 25fps. Any higher FPS resulted in bizarre glitches with my editing program (Final Cut Pro 7). I'm used to H264 in my work so I went with that, do you guys know if it's the ideal codec though?

Would love to hear your thoughts, gonna start working on another video soon. Probably shorter, more punchy, over a few different tracks (a bit like the trailer for TM2: Valley.)

Thanks!

- Shoe18

Looks great. A good ol'styled Racing Vid.

Nice work on the Replays, looked realistic and was fun too watch ( Love the mini cut @ 2:46 awesome cam, cool idea! )

You picked up Valley a week ago and "slowly" learned to use the replay editor? ... A week ago?
Cams are looking great (and fucking awsome for a week - way better than mine knowing the Mediatracker for years ).

Really enjoyed to watch, kinda liked the "non-punchy" style, too. Ty.

Two small things:
1. Sometimes I got the feeling there were too much cams locked on a car. ( I could be wrong, just a feeling).
2. A small "storyline" would have been nice, like am extra focus on a battle between 2/3 cars over the time.

Exept from that: GG, looking forward to more vids. Can't really help on the technical stuff.
And yeah... it's a pretty sweet freaking game.

Ah thanks for that man! Felt amazing hearing some good feedback for the first video.

Love your ideas, I think you're dead on. I started out with it just being a time trial for the grey car, then added the others as I went after I'd done a lot of the cameras, so next time I'd have less emphasis on that one car and more on the entire race.

Hopefully more work will pop up soon!

Thanks again.

Very nice. I like the flow of the track you created and the video editing too.
I thought the whole thing was exceptional for a new user. Have Fun!