Quote from: Dick Forrest on August 14, 2014, 03:34:38 PM

Quote from: Guybrush Threepwood on August 14, 2014, 02:55:31 PM

Damn, I assumed round 1 was tonight and didn't look at the dates properly.  Anyone up for a race tonight?

Marty has been training me up.
So man. I need some serious re-training guybrush!
I'll be on but a bit later than usual. After 6 West Aus time. Maybe a little later than that

So what you're saying is that you will be on some time in the 1970's Eastern time?

I think with tike zones and all thats a bit optomistic for WA, I think WW1 is still being broadcast on the wireless. In 30 years or so they will get a colour TV in the Perth square.

Marty and Glen, how are you guys encoding this for Youtube? Mine always look like rubbish. Are you recording at full screen resolution? I'm then encoding with AviDemux to H.264/AAC, two pass bit rate of 5000. I only recorded at half screen size in FRAPS, which is probably too low(?).

Im using Nvidia Shadowplay capturing in game at 4k but shadowplay converts this to 2560x1440 which is its maximum encoding res atm. This is what I normally encode to yt in but being a longer video I just made it 1080p to reduce the end bitrate and file size. The higher res does make the end video quite a bit sharper but even capturing at 1080p shadowplay does ok.

I edit and encode in Premiere pro at fairly high bit-rates 1080p around 20Mbps 1440 around 30Mbps. Youtube does re-compress to much lower rates but I have found if you want to not butcher it too much you need to give it a pretty good quality file. If you already compress it to around 6-7Mbps which is what a 1080p yt stream will end up at it will look pretty crappy.

Unfortunately there is no way of encoding a file for yt where it wont re-encode it so you just need to give it a very high quality source if you want an ok end result. YT actually suggests for best quality to encode at 50Mbps for 1080p but I think thats overkill in most cases and 20-25 will end up looking quite good still.

But when it comes to enoding there is no point ever encoding at a higher rate then your source file, but each re-encode loses quality so your best of giving it something good or it will properly butcher the end video.

Shadowplay encodes files in 50Mbps which is still a smaller file then what fraps will give you but if you want to get a good result after the yt butchering best to encode a 1080p file in H264 MP4 format 2 pass encode with a bitrate of at least 20Mbps.

Quote from: Wally on August 13, 2014, 06:26:36 PM

Great stuff! You've got a lot of steering input going on there. Is that how you drive, reflected in the replay?

Yer not sure, just the way I drive I guess. I don't seem to use as much tire as most so maybe I create less friction. I know it looks manic at times but I am actually quite relaxed 

Looks like you prefer a setup thats a bit understeery, will save the rears and quite likely your fronts go off before rears unlike me in this car running softs its always the rears that go first.

We could do a rolling start - just follow the pole sitter around for the first lap with no overtaking until the start finish line. Turn 1 would probably still be mayhem....

I dont think thats needed, just a little caution into t1 and if your side by side hold the inside or outside line until you know your clear. T1 will be an issue all race as will the end of every straight as there will be cars side by side all over the track thanks to the draft. Would be a good idea to have some short practice races here and I will have my server setup that way a bit so people can jump on and get used to racing others but even on the practice server you can always get together and race a little if on teamspeak.

Look forward to your video Glen. I just thought of an easier way that we could put together a weekly highlights video. If everyone were to save their replay file and if they had something they though was worthy of making the reel. Simply trim the replay file to the good bit or bits in seperate files and upload it somewhere. Then it woupd be easy for someone to get the best bits and also cars still look best if using your own replay file rather then other cars which do sometimes move in strange ways.

If there was to be a selection of clips within a few days of the last race I could quite easily make a short highlight reel for each race and round to upload. A bit more exposure and we could guarantee full grids each round and maybe even have 2 divisions if numbers warrant it.

A way you could run multiple divisions would be to get all people available for the round to post a laptime on RSR and then the grids could be split top and bottom for each round. This would help bring the racing even closer maybe giving half points for the guys in the second division and so points could be combined for all.

Hey Marty, I didnt see where you were when we came together as you were right in my blind spot, i reckon next time give a holla on TS saying "inside"  or what ever. You had made good ground watching the video but I had no idea you were that far up, if I had of known, room would have been given.

All good Glen, its easy to get caught in a blindspot. It all happens pretty quick and I had a better run then I expected so it was quite a late move and I was just looking for my turn in point. Then once I saw your car come in I braked harder and locked up so was pretty screwed at that point with nowhere to go as I was commited so unfortunatly we made contact.

I actually thought I had a broken wheel as you can see in the video I was full lock opposite to the direction I was going at one point after that when trying to get back on track .  ;

Still its just a racing incident and these alway will happen with close racing, I was quite amazed in race 2 that there was no contact between me and Wally or Guybrush as we did get very close a couple times. When inside of Guybrush I was trying hard not to do the pit manouver we practiced a bit during the week as it would be a bit silly us taking eachother out.

Well done Guybrush on the wins, I didnt really have the pace to hurt him. Race 1 was quite fun even though I did a silly error being gready on the exit of t5. I missed the apex but didnt want to lift as Wally was pressuring and I was trying to get out to pull out a gap so he couldnt draft me down the straight. This resulted in a big tank slapper and into the wall but spun back onto the track. Rob got unlucky as he was blindsided by the 2 cars ahead of him and he nailed me just as the car stopped across the track.

I then had to try fight back dropping to about 10th there then unfortunatly had a coming together with Glen as I got squeezed with nowhere to go as I was inside. I locked up once I saw he was turning in but we hit and I spun into the grass and nearly everyone got past. I ended up 17th when I rejoined and then just tried to fight my way back with a few good battles especially the last lap and half with Rob and Gwyer. In the end finished 8th so at least I got some points out of that messy race of mine.

Here are my lowlights and highlights from race 1 in a video.
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Race 2 the first 2 laps were almost Identical as with Wally again challenging and passing on the draft lap 2, we had a good battle and he did start to pull a little gap so I needed to push a bit to make it up. Finally got by and a few draft passes each it was shaping up to be a fun battle with Guy a second or so ahead but pulling ahead more as we slowed eachother down with some side by side action. Sadly Wally spun on the last corner then I just tried to chase Guybrush.

Luckily for me had had an off and so I was able to catch him and even get past a little later. We were close for a few laps then he got by and I made some small mistakes where he started to pulk a little gap. I was pushing hard then ended up spinning on the second last lap, got pretty much beached but just got out a few seconds ahead of Rob. With dirty cold tyres he was gaining quickly. I tried pushing for a fastest lap on the last lap but ran wide exit of 6 and nearly lost it again. Then just had to try hold Rob off to the line.

Was fun especially all the passing in race 1 and battles with Wally, Guy and Rob in both races.