A Quick Trip Out in the 3 Litre

Malcolm Gordon · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 10:49 pm Post subject: A Quick Trip Out in the 3 Litre

I should have been heading to the Scottish Whit Weekend today but all play was stopped by Covid.

It still didn't stop me taking the 3 litre out for a short run, taking a video of the trip and then speeding it all up so a 25 minute trip is condensed into 3 mins!!

Below is the link to the video on You Tube.

https://youtu.be/Mm39CcWLkgE

Robert Craven · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 8:58 am Post subject:

Fantastic, Malcolm.
But my experience of Scottish Whits is that that's normal driving for the Scottish 3 Litre brigade.

DavidThompson · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 1:14 pm Post subject:

How lucky you are to have such traffic free roads.
I did the same thing yesterday but spent the whole time avoiding the cyclists and camper vans that seem to be blocking up the entire New Forest and Hampshire coast!!!

Malcolm Gordon · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 4:16 pm Post subject:

Like it Robert!!

The roads being so quiet is one of the positive things to come out of this craziness David. The circuit I can use is usually pretty free of traffic but even more so at the moment.

Dan Suskin · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 298 Location: Georgia, USA

Vert stable video - what's the camera setup?

Malcolm Gordon · Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 9:13 am Post subject:

Its an Akaso V50 Elite camera. Looks like a Go Pro but is significantly cheaper and has similar features. They get great reviews on Amazon. I used one of the many supplied attaching brackets onto the top of the windscreen.

It was the first time I used the camera and was delighted with the result. The camera is smaller than some dash cams and could well be used for that purpose too.

I then downloaded the video to my Mac and used iMovie. The whole trip was about 24mins which I thought would be ver boring to watch. I then noticed that I could speed up the footage and set it for 8 times the actual speed. By chance the sound of the footage speeded up came out as it did. For some reason the camera automatically splits the footage into 8 minute segments hence the slight changes is colour and sound 2-3 times. It was one of the first times I had used iMovie too but looked at one of the many tutorials on Youtube.

It was all a bit new to me but the result was excellent even though I say so myself. I am sure with a bit of practice I could improve things.

David Cocking · Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:09 pm Post subject:

Brilliant Malcolm! Was out in mine today too - absolute joy to drive around the Dorset lanes in perfect weather and hardly any traffic. Never before and probably never again once Covid is gone. Silver linings 'n all that..