Yes, well done. I enjoyed this quite a bit!

stunning, very well done George! I take my hat off to you.

What editing software did you use for this, wdid you use Magic Bullet Looks for that amazing color grading?

Shooting and editing was absolutely stunning! Very much loved the post work done on it :)

My question is for those time lapse sequences with panning/dutch/tilt movement...was that on one of those timed motorized heads or were you able to just do that by hand? :)
Loved the time lapse focus pull at around 2:48!

Thank you for your comments. Magic Bullet was used only in 4 or 5 clips, mostly for easy vignettes and touchups.Most was done the hard way with Vegas tools (color curves,primary & secondary CC,the free six way cc fx,(with eugenias pretty much perfect "blue world" preset a bit custom tailored;) ,etc) and some NewBlue tinting and saturation touchups at the end of all that plugin chain.No motion head, pan crop in post only.I really need to add that almost all master shots with no people in it were done with a cheap fisheye filter zoomed in a bit.Those shots were made "anamorphic" in post to exaggerate perspective.If you look at the tilted tyres in the beginning of the clip you'll see that clearly.Thank you

very professional I like it !

Nicely done. Playing with time is very effective. i especially like the camera moves within speeded up clips.

WOW!!!, and I Don't like Motorcycles

the shots that start at 3:44 are awesome! great work in capturing the emotion.

What is the music used in this?? you did a very good job of pulling the emotion from the music into the film!

should be more (not less :P ) motocykles . Finaly after 4 minutes we got some decent shots :P
Nicely shot and edited but i would cut it to 5 mins max

The music is called "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi.Now about the video,maybe it should have more biking in it,but my purpose was not to make a "trackday video" like the ones you see pretty much everywhere and i know because i have made some of those myself.Thank you for your comments.

George, Great job. I raced bikes for years and years and now fly PPG. see "Friends over the Pacific". We have very similar goals. We are both trying to show the romance of our sport. There are so many of the regular videos that miss the emotions that we feel as racers. I really love what you did here. It would be nice also to contrast the delicate "ballet" soft dreamy side with the instant, real, gritty and terrifying aspect of going down on the hard cold asphalt as all part of the same story.
Beautiful job. :)

Thank you Shawn.It is great when fellow riders say that.Funny thing is,i was kinda hoping as a photographer to record an accident on spot and at the same time as a rider i really hoped that nobody crashed during the day. During the last day of shooting a rider with a sv1000 had a lowside right in front of me,which i didnt get on camera, but i got everything afterwards.During editing i decided to edit out those scenes although some of them were pretty well composed and a couple felt like they were almost directed and had a lot to say about the sport.I was too emotionally involved you see...

Omg, those colors! o_O Usually this kind of short films are a bit boring for what I think... but this was awesome! Music totally fits in and the whole thing was shotted and edited nicely. Well done, George :)

BEST. HV20. FOOTAGE. EVER

And you also like Grim Fandango!

Oh my God, I think I worship you!!!! Oo

This piece is very BeautifuL! You have a very good eye.

I am dying to watch this on a big Full HD LCD screen, but can't download the video. Near the end of the download, it always gives an error, saying there is something wrong with the server.

Wow it's been a couple of days since i logged in and now people think I am.... cool!! haha.Thank you guys.Hey Daniel what happened, did you finally download the video?A friend of mine reported the same problem today.

Lot of thumps up!!
Which settings did you use to capture this?? Very much interested. Sharp quality! Great colors!

Okay. Tingles down the spine. Glorious capture of the feeling on the track. Wonderful eye for what is WANTED to be seen. Glorious editing. Fantastic rhythm. This video is a great example of what you can achieve on a handycam these days and what the future of the internet is about. Long live user based video!

Wow! That was perfect and spectacular!
Very good edit and it didn't seem that it was show with a consumer camcorder. It all depend on the operator...

Absolutely stunning! I ride and it's rare that I see something that moves you like the way riding does...
This definitely gives me the true feelings of the track.
Thank you for your insight into how we are!!!!

Thank you all very much.The feedback i've been receiving gives me the courage to make another motorcycle short.I'm a bit lazy though...:)

how did u make the speed so fast...when i hit cntrl adn then drag the clip down to make it fast ..theres a limit..how did u make ur vids so fast....is there a trick for it?....

thanx

George,

THANK YOU! I just found this, and it is everything everyone has mentioned: majestic, passionate, beautiful...I can't think of enough words to properly describe my feelings while viewing it. This is incredibly awesome.

What really gets me is these guys are half a world away, but I feel their intensity, their focus, their drive and even their anxiety (the guy running to his bike, and then you transfer focus on the other bike pulling away... it drove me nuts...I've felt that way myself at the track...worrying I'm going to forget something, only to remember it at the last minute). By far the best 7 minutes of film I've seen in years. Really.

Best regards,
Bill Brown
(RacerX)

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