2005 Targa Florio. Niggly issues. Input appreciated.

[irrational_i]

Its too cool to keep secret until I am done.
A friend attended the 2005 Targa Florio in Sicily.
I have my hands on lots of video footage and some images.

My problem is how to handle the splitting.
For instance - Should I split Ferrari footage and then seperate models?
Should I lump all cars together in handleable filesizes?

Should I post videos in seperate car sections or in one place?
Of course hosting may be an issue still. I am always loathe to deteriorate the video quality too much in the interest of size. (i.e. I have a 7 minute clip of a Ferrari P4 at 280MB!)

Its going to take a week of editing at least to get it all done.

Some cars I saw while skimming through the footage:
Ferrari P3/4
Ferrari 250SWB
Bugatti T35
BMW 328
Lancia Stratos
Alfa guilietta
Ford GT40

A little sneak preview:
http://e.co.za/Cars/TargaFlorioP4.jpg

[dingo]

In terms of the pictures I would just resize them to 1600x1200 and at that resolution you can keep each pic around 300-400kb.

I would start a topic and just post all the pics in there - but group them together by make or model. :wink:

....(i.e. I have a 7 minute clip of a Ferrari P4 at 280MB!)....

you can definately reduce that alot and still get very good quality. :wink:

[irrational_i]

Unfortunately all the footage was taken with a digital video cam. This means the photos are not of greatest resolution. 8(
The pics I will post seperate as I usually do. Its more the video that I am not sure what to do with.
I think the P4 deserves its own place in the Ferrari section though.

The shot above is a screenshot of the video footage. Its currently in 720X576 - directly from the camera. I will probably reduce to 640X480 first with higher xvid compression. I will stick to proper stereo sound. Its only 5kb/s.

The friend's girlfriend was handling the camera, so unfortunately I can probably bring you more shots of Italian pottery than cars! 8P
Digitising around 4 hours of footage takes a long time...

[RC45]

What ever you do - do NOT lose the full uncompressed DV source video.!!!!!!!

Capture it at full resolution and then store the raw video files on DVD or buy extra DV tapoes - what ever it takes to keep the original generation is important.

That way producing DVD quality for your own personal use is a zip.

What I normally do is create my own personal DVD first - with menus and full frame DVD MPEG's (still keeping the raw footage) - then I send the same movie edit from Premiere through a DiVX codec to create a smaller web friendly version.

But for things like this people under stand sometimes you may be faced with a large multi-hundered mb file.

:)

Good luck and can't wait to see the final production :)

[stradale]

I'd really like to see that footage of the 330 P4! It's 0846, the same car as in the picture of it driving along a NY highway. We've had a discussion about it on JW somewhere.

Read this thread: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60928&page=1&pp=20 It's highly recommended, it caused goosebumps with me anyway.
http://img204.echo.cx/img204/485/img010846targa051xk.jpg