-Updated
Jul. 8, 2009-
Please select
the way you'd like to view our onboard video collection by using
the menu to the right. This section of videos
contains recordings of races with our onboard camera.
Hale Racing Incorporated is the owner of each video, and they are not to
be modified in any way, shape, or form; rereleased, or
reproduced without my the consent of Hale Racing
Incorporated. Please remember that these videos do not only reflect to Michael Hale, but instead are related to anything and
everything involved with Hale Racing. If you want
to link to any one video, you may do so by posting a link to
our website and directing the visitor to our Onboard Videos
section. Thank you.
Below is a little information on how the onboard video process works to give you
a bit of an idea on what it takes to get these videos
online.
Step 1: Record video from
onboard camera using a Oregon Scientific ATC2K Action Camera
Hopefully this
information gives you a better idea of what it takes to get our videos
online. It is a lengthy process, so I appreciate your patience as
I try to get them online as quickly as possible. Please
accept our apologies if some of our videos do not live up to
your standards on quality. Keep in mind this is an onboard
camera that feels every bump just the same as the driver does.
Sometimes recordings will cut off, so we apologize for any
inconveniences you may experience while viewing our videos.
Thank you for visiting, and we hope you enjoy or
"Onboard Video" gallery.
Don't forget to visit often, as new videos will be
posted as soon as they become available.
Onboard Videos
3:06 PM
Mountain Standard Time
The Onboard Video Gallery is
officially open to the public. Videos will be made
available soon!
Note: Video begins recording after one of the crew
members presses the record button on the camera
Note: prior to
Michael entering the racetrack. At this point it is completely out
of our control as to whether
Note: or not the
camera records the entire race or not.
Step 2: Importing video file into Corel VideoStudio 12 and
removing caution laps.
Note: A race with a lot of cautions can end up taking a
lot of time because I have to manually cut out the
Note: caution laps
and create the "fade
in/fade out" effect for each transition. Combining
the videos into
Note: one single video, or "race video" as you might call it,
can be very time consuming.
Step 3: Saving the combined video, or "race video" to a new
.AVI file.
Note: This process usually takes about 25 minutes and
once it's finished I can now work with my single
Note: "race video"
and work on compressing it to be more user-friendly for the web.
Step 4: Encoding the "race video" TWICE. 1 for high speed
connections. 1 for low speed.
Note: This is by far the lengthiest process. The
high speed connection version usually takes between 1
Note: and 2 hours
depending on the length of the race. The low speed connection
version takes
Note:
approximately 45 minutes. Keep in mind this is with a
quad core processor at 2.9GHz.
Note: Your basic
dual core processors would probably take close to 3 or 4 hours for the
high speed
Note: version.
Step 5: Uploading the video to the web and updating the video
gallery website.
Note: Uploading the high speed connection version takes
about 35-45 minutes. The low
Note: speed is
usually 20 minutes. Updating the website can take some time if I
have to create a new
Note: section (ie:
whenever a new month begins), but I can usually have it together in
about an hour.
Note: IIf I don't
have to create a new section, I can have it updated in about 20 minutes.