Aussie_6er wrote:.....And Ivan: are you wearing a "Stig" helmet on the previous page? ^
Yes, that is one of two Simpson RX helmets that I have.....
On the way out of the circuit and back to the display stand, I actually had people pointing at me and exclaiming "It's The Stig!!" Maybe I should have worn it all day.....
Well done fellas, it looks like you had a great day.
I've been following this event through the whole 8 months and 16 pages of its build up, and am glad to see you had such a good time. It looks like you had a beautiful day for it too.
Thanks Neil for your gallery of pics, it's great to see so many well-kept and impeccable cars (the 6ers obviously, not the ricers!), and it was good to see the Observer car there too.
Drew wrote:
I now have a wheels dilemma, whether to buy some of the modern Alpinas or whether to hold out for the older Alpinas like the Hallmark car there had...? I think I will hold out (and save the pennies for) the older period rims as I think they will suit the chrome trim better :)
hi, I am back home now after 3333 kilometres / 2083 miles trip including Silverstone and Nurburgring-Nordschleife - it was amazing. I have 1300 photos and few minutes of video. I?ll share them later. Thank?s to all - specially to Steve and his family and Horsetan+Billy
M6 - Marwin
628CSi Turbo - Britney
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DC wrote:hi, I am back home now after 3333 kilometres / 2083 miles trip including Silverstone and Nurburgring-Nordschleife - it was amazing. I have 1300 photos and few minutes of video. I?ll share them later. Thank?s to all - specially to Steve and his family and Horsetan+Billy
-thanks for coming over and adding a little international flavour to our little meet! I hope you enjoyed your trip to the UK, and didn't get too confused on the 'wrong' side of the road!
Hi All,
thank you for all your comments, it was nice to read that you enjoyed the day
it was great to meet all of you, and get to see so many 6ers
ivan: my family has put your famous pic as a screen saver
abit upset as i did not see the 6 going the wrong way around silverstone, hopefully someone video it
thanks to dc for driving over to silverstone i hope you enjoyed your stay in uk
nr: thank you, now my daughter wants orange hair
i will post up my pics asap here is a couple taken early in the morning
I didn't take a great many pics myself, but do have some DV video film of an overview of the participants which I can put on a DVD if anyone's interested.
Also, how can I convert DV video tape into a format recognised by the PC?
horsetan wrote:Also, how can I convert DV video tape into a format recognised by the PC?
It's been quite a while since I tried this, but my experience is via a firewire interface from the camera to the PC to grab the frames, and a package like Vegas Video to process them and output as a .mpg file. Only it's not very easy, and unless you have a pretty fast PC, it takes literally, days. Last time I copied DV tape to a DVD (admittedly there was an hour of footage) it took 4 days for my PC to render it.
This probably says more about how tight I am about spending money on my PC [1] than currently available technology to be honest. It could well be that more modern versions of Windows make this process a lot easier. Personally, if I had to do it again, I'd use a Mac.
nr wrote:....via a firewire interface from the camera to the PC to grab the frames, and a package like Vegas Video to process them and output as a .mpg file. Only it's not very easy, and unless you have a pretty fast PC, it takes literally, days.
Mine's a homebuilt PC, using an AMD 2.08Ghz CPU and 2Gb of RAM, plus about 250Gb-worth of SATA HDD (and 120Gb + 80Gb IDEs)
Last time I copied DV tape to a DVD (admittedly there was an hour of footage) it took 4 days for my PC to render it.
nr wrote: Last time I copied DV tape to a DVD (admittedly there was an hour of footage) it took 4 days for my PC to render it.
This probably says more about how tight I am about spending money on my PC [1] than currently available technology to be honest. It could well be that more modern versions of Windows make this process a lot easier. Personally, if I had to do it again, I'd use a Mac.
[1] It's a 300MHz Celeron. Hot stuff in 1997.
Little wonder!
Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to render it Horsetan. There's a bunch of programs out there for video editing, I use a program from these guys.
Did the guy who came round and took the photos actually come from Total BMW (or whoever was supposed to be doing the shoot) - and if so, which issue are they supposed to be in? I have this month's issue (freebe at Santapod yesterday), but we are definitely not in there.
