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I'd wanted one of these HW video racers since I first saw them, and over the weekend my lovely wife and 4 year old surprised me with one as an early father's day gift!
I took it down to the slotcave, and began messing around with it to get it around the track - I tried pins front and rear with a push car, free swinging trailer (no guide pin), hand pushing it around the track (and making cool sound effects - vroom vroom!), and last night I strapped it to a US-1 flatbed trailer, and got it all the way around my setup.
The video is dark, too fast, and the soundtrack doesn't measure up to the other summer blockbuster films, but here's my directorial debut! (click the pic for video!)

It's a lap and a bit (watch the lighthouse on the left at the start of the video, and after about 56 seconds you'll see it again!)
I'm going to have to play a bit more, and see if I can get even better quality out of the camera (the cave is way too dark!), and I want to run it on all 4 lanes, which are all equidistant, but lanes 1 & 2 take a somewhat different path than lanes 3 & 4 for about 1/3 of the track!
I know that on a PC there's fancy hotwheels editing software available, but being on a mac, now I've got to figure out Imovie a bit better. At this point, I can brighten it in Imovie and slow down the video, but I'm sure there's even more that could be done with just a little knowledge!
anyone have any other tips (other than better lighting, and a bit more practice than 15 minutes of play time!) to make the video better? What's the best way you've found to get one of these around the track? Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks!
j
I took it down to the slotcave, and began messing around with it to get it around the track - I tried pins front and rear with a push car, free swinging trailer (no guide pin), hand pushing it around the track (and making cool sound effects - vroom vroom!), and last night I strapped it to a US-1 flatbed trailer, and got it all the way around my setup.
The video is dark, too fast, and the soundtrack doesn't measure up to the other summer blockbuster films, but here's my directorial debut! (click the pic for video!)

It's a lap and a bit (watch the lighthouse on the left at the start of the video, and after about 56 seconds you'll see it again!)
I'm going to have to play a bit more, and see if I can get even better quality out of the camera (the cave is way too dark!), and I want to run it on all 4 lanes, which are all equidistant, but lanes 1 & 2 take a somewhat different path than lanes 3 & 4 for about 1/3 of the track!
I know that on a PC there's fancy hotwheels editing software available, but being on a mac, now I've got to figure out Imovie a bit better. At this point, I can brighten it in Imovie and slow down the video, but I'm sure there's even more that could be done with just a little knowledge!
anyone have any other tips (other than better lighting, and a bit more practice than 15 minutes of play time!) to make the video better? What's the best way you've found to get one of these around the track? Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks!
j