This is the fourth year Rolling Thunder
Multimedia has produced Karting vids from the Rock. Every year they
keep getting better!
This year we'll begin taking orders on September 14th
either by our Paypal Order Page or by Mail.
The first 100 orders will get a free 1 year
subscription to Kartweb.
These are a 2-DVD set with over 3 hours of racing
action, all 15 races.
Only Kartweb brings you the best in Karting Videos!
Behind the scenes - What it takes to
produce these videos
We've had a number of people ask why it takes so long to get these
videos to DVD's. here is a partial list of what goes into the RIGP
Videos;
- AMB Timing & Scoring Files are converted to Excel and reformatted
on 38 Worksheets.
- Over 80 Image files are created. These include opening
scenes, qualifying, last chance qualifiers, and results.
- 14 hours of video tape is downloaded to disk (about 180 Gigabytes)
for editing. During the download a rough storyboard is written
for each class.
- Graphics and audio selections are assembled for each class
storyboard.
- Each class is edited into a single timeline.
- On first edit pass, each class video is quality checked start to
finish for blank frames and other defects. In some cases camera
movements or other problems may exist. Most but not all issues
like this are adjusted where possible. (We've seen the video
probably 8-10 times before it's ready for you).
- Encode the final cut in un-compressed format. That takes
another 50 Gigabytes. I know, disk space is cheap. But
networks could be faster...
- Encode the videos in MPEG2 (DVD) and 1Mbs 640x480 WMV (Kartweb
Theater).
- Copy back ups of files to 17 DVD's.
- Create DVD Opening Scene and Menu.
- Create DVD Files.
- Create DVD Masters.
- Create DVD surface Graphics.
- Create DVD Wrapper Graphics.
Then we are ready to mass copy DVD's and silkscreen surfaces for sale.
At the same time we begin putting the videos on the web;
- Upload WMV's to Webserver. Last year this took a little over
2 Gigabytes. That may not sound like much, but it takes about 30
hours alone in upload time. Just the King of the Street video
alone takes about the same disk space as all of Ekartingnews.
This year we've contracted out some of the editing, and will be
shipping DVD's within two weeks of the show. These are more then
just racing videos they are memories of being a part of the crown jewel of
racing. That makes it worth the effort. Enjoy.
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