MTTS Milestones
On the Road with MINI Takes the States 2016
Track to Track
This is a documentary that seeks to communicate the experience of MTTS 2016 by presenting literally every moment of time on the road across the two week event, along with enough images and video from each gathering to convey the flavor of what it was like to participate from Atlanta to Palm Springs. Time-lapse photography (one image each 2 seconds) or normal video is used for most of the rally experiences on the road.
The time-lapse segments have all been fitted with musical accompaniment suitable to that leg’s characteristics.
The photography herein was accomplished with two GoPro cameras (a GoPro Hero 4 Black and a GoPro Hero 3+ Black) mounted primarily above the top center of the windshield on my MINI, both facing forward. My Nikon D800 DSLR (Nikon 28-300 f/3.5-5.6 VR FX lens) with a Rode Stereo VideoMic Pro was used both for images as well as handheld video capture. A few images can be sourced to an iPhone 6S. Every image went through post-production in Photoshop CS6. Approximately 200,000 individual GoPro images were employed to create the time-lapse video segments. Time-lapse post-processing was performed on a batch basis in Lightroom 6.13 and time-lapses were smoothed, exposure-balanced, motion-controlled and rendered in LRTimelapse 4.7.8 Professional. Final video editing was performed in Vegas Pro 15.0. BluRay disk design and production was completed with DVD Architect Build 67.
This RU-vid presentation was rendered in 1080p HD but due to variations in people’s connections, that definition may be eroded in transmission. I am preparing a number of BluRay DVD sets of this production which may potentially be available. My experience so far is that this is best viewed on a BluRay DVD player and large screen television to bring out the clarity and complexity that I tried to engineer into the video.
I spent over 12 months to bring this together as my gift to the MINI Community, feeling that if MINI USA can invest so many, many months in preparing MTTS for us all, I could at least spend a little time to try to record it all and tell the story afterwards.
Whether you are a veteran of MTTS or have never driven a leg, please enjoy this with my best wishes -
Motor On my friends !
27 авг 2024
