@speedcraft you know that feeling of crabwalk? I bet that’s from not unwinding the turn, holding angle too long. It occurred to me watching video. Unique to plywood. As your kart goes past the optimal turn in point mid chicane, the power through the back wheels is now at an angle to line of travel. It’s subtle but since it’s wood, instead of sliding rear you get wander.
You never crabwalk on the asphalt bottom level.
I think there’s a different video supposed to be here 
Edit: nvm I see it’s 2 different parts of the same video 
Yeah two different time stamps of same heat
Pretty cool to watch them side by side here with the time synced. The ReelSteady is cool it reminds me of drone footage.
The “No ReelSteady” is still stabilized though, right?
You can see the cropping here, which isn’t bad.
I tried to find a bright part on the track to compare because I was getting the impression the bitrate is off. How is the ReelSteady 4k if the raw footage is 2k? Maybe it’s upscaling I’m noticing?
Part of me though likes a little bit of the shakiness for the immersion of it 
– although not quite the shakiness of my unstabilized 2008 Hero 3 
. I did a comparison of that when I first got the 11:
Yeah, so my footage is shot with hypersmooth to begin with. And yeah, I think it must upscale. The thing with the superview lens mod is that it changes your max video to 2.7K.
I recall the Hero 7 being the first Wow moment for the stabilization. That remains an excellent camera today. Hero 5 was their first really good vibration reduction. That’s a cool comparison you did. The interesting thing is how bad the wind noise was on the 3. The video quality was quite good.
Maybe there’s some render settings in ReelSteady to prevent that?
I blame a lot of that on the underwater shell. I have no other case to mount it in and it doesn’t have the built in feet like the new ones. Probably accounts for some of the hazy color also. I used to take that with me to like Tough Mudders and such.
I was impressed for it’s age as well!
I just emailed Will asking if he’d be ok with me putting a mount on the kart for the 360 so we’d get proper footage.
My experience has been that YouTube prefers upscaled 4k to native lower resolutions. When I upload 1080 or the like, it always looks like crap.
The potential problem with upscaling lower res video to 4k is you’re trying to interpolate data that wasn’t there in the first place. YMMV, depending on the software and quality of the source material. Recoding 4k to something YT likes seems a better approach…
I am sure you are correct. What I have determined from my karting video adventures is that it is best to render 4k despite it being filmed lower res. Uploading 1080p to YouTube results in odd artifacts as compared to uploading 4k source.
The algorithms for upscaling have gotten dramatically better since I got paid to wrangle video bits and bytes and long render times.
It was maddening with racerender. All the text would get artifacting unless uploaded 4k.
I will read up on why it upscales 2.7k to 4k. It’s odd because once you slap lens mod on, your resolution caps at 2.7k.
What’s also odd is that wide angle lenses have wider useable part of the image than telephoto (O vs o). Which means that it’s not that issue that steals resolution.
Perhaps it’s because it’s a lens attachment which is introducing a lot more glass elements.
Edit: there’s a new max lens mod 2.0 for newer cams
Ok so, the 2.0 lens mod works with the 11/12 which record 5.6k normal or 4k with max lens 2.0.
Wellp, I now need another Gopro.
So Will responded back. We can’t put a clamp mount on the rollcage. Drat.
He is fine with Narhwal/Unicorn mounts on helmet tho! 
Incoming!
Is there no limit to how silly I’m willing to look while karting?
I was hopeful for a minute. I heard him say No in the past, but thought maybe he’d come around for “regulars” 
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I think they should mount GoPro shoes on all the karts. I’ve overheard enough people, even in public races, asking if they rent GoPros, or rent helmets with mounts, or “how can I buy my footage” just assuming the karts are already recorded.
Seems like a missed opportunity.
Nice! Looks like a great deal actually! And nice that the batteries are still the same from 9 through 12!
Yeah it is a good deal! I couldn’t resist!
I’ll forwards the idea to Will about the shoes.
Edit: no actually I won’t. If they go rental cam route, we’re screwed.
Holy cow there’s some cool stuff with the 12:
It pairs with AirPods for narration and voice commands. 
While it’s uploading it prepares a highlight video and sends it to you
10bit color.
With max Lens mod 2.0, all sorts of craziness opens up in terms of shooting options.
I can’t wait to try this out, it seems to be a big step forwards from the 9.
@speedcraft
A thought that has been knocking around in my head:
Normally, the fall is the end of the racing and the beginning of some sort of sim orgy.
But, I seem to have found a replacement for simming. I think the supercharged stuff somehow pings the same pleasure centers as sim but better.
Im not sure why but it really feels like my KK laps and the supercharged stuff feel the same, experientially.
Any thoughts as to why?
Also, part of what is appealing is that it’s different: the tracks are insane relative to normal sprint tracks. The wood surface is different. The karts are electric and feature low end torque that makes them drive very differently from gx270.
I can see myself doing this until I have utterly dialed the line for both tracks. The next logical step would be oval, preferably dirt.
I’m not alone in this render to 4k then upload…
"You should upload in 4K to YouTube for the best image quality, even if you recorded in 1080p and upscaled to 4K (not a joke).
I’ve tested this and seen the results.
Recording, editing in 1080p, exporting in 4k and the playback is sharper on the 1080p setting on YouTube.
This is probably due to the vp09 encoder YouTube uses for 4K footage (even when watched on 1080p) instead of av01 for most videos uploaded in 1080p.
When you upload 4K (even if it is shot and edited in 1080p) it enforces the vp09 encoding." -not me, some YouTuber
And, another YouTuber concurs:
With 2.0 lens mod:
Almost a fisheye with the wide setting.
The vertical and full frame sensor options will work well.
On weds I will try the superview for one session and the “wide” for another. I am guessing the 170 degree view will be too wide.
4k close up versus 5k
5.3k is sharper but also softer overall. Less contrasty for sure.
Go all out and try Max HyperView!
