18 July 2004
CarCam v1.0
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: CarCam; Misc .
Inspired by Shaan Hurley over at Between the lines who was inspired by Kallahar’s “LA to Oregon at Mach 9″ video, i bought the smallest USB camera i could find, hung it in front of the passenger seat, plugged it into my laptop and went for a one hour drive around Sydney.
I then took the video into Windows Movie Maker, and increased the speed of the final WMV file by four times. The result…CarCam v1.0 (16MB)…a one hour drive around Sydney in just under 15 minutes. If you have played Project Gotham Racing 2, you may recognise some of the journey. When you speed up my driving (remember the local speed limit:) it actually looks like your driving around the Rocks and Dawes Point at the same speed you do in the game.
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I’ll probably do a few more of these videos as I find them quite fun to watch and the looks you get from people as you pull up next to them and they realise you have a video camera hanging in the car is pretty bizarre. If i can mount the camera on the front of the car, and the weather is good, i’ll more than likely film the three hour drive down to Tech.Ed in Canberra in a few weeks.
2 Comments so far...
Mick (SplaTT) Says:
22 July 2004 at 4:13 pm.
I need to have a play with a few of the video features i’ve got and see if a can get it into the 3gpp format…i’ll see how i go.. :)
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