Westport to Dublin in 10 minutes

Praetorian · 13-05-2008 1:31pm #1

Last bank holiday weekend on the way home from Westport a friend and I made a video of the drive home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9qXDkBcVc

The video is a bit too fast for youtube's bitrate, but I can try and host a nice quality version if anyone is interested (it looks real nice)

Eoin · 13-05-2008 1:54pm

Only watched a few seconds of it as I'm in work, but very cool - those types of vids are cool. Do you have somewhere to host the full version?

flanzer · 13-05-2008 2:03pm

Class!

Gandalf23 · 13-05-2008 2:08pm

Brilliant!

But did I see overtaking on a continious white line about 2.20 minutes in? Tut tut ...

Seth Brundle · 13-05-2008 2:31pm

KB forwards link to Garda Traffic Corps!

Lord Nikon · 13-05-2008 2:32pm

Now that is a quality post, good job:)

fletch · 13-05-2008 2:37pm

Really enjoyed picking out all the towns along the way!

Cionád · 13-05-2008 2:39pm

That was class, what camera were you using, and how is it mounted?

Would love to do one all the way to France

Gary ITR · 13-05-2008 2:44pm

Driving that fast is totally irresponsible :rolleyes:

su_dios · 13-05-2008 2:52pm

Nice video!

javaboy · 13-05-2008 3:23pm

Have you even heard of the two second rule?

HashSlinging · 13-05-2008 4:00pm

Onkle wrote: »

Driving that fast is totally irresponsible :rolleyes:

Haha its sped up. he wasn’t actually driving that fast. Granted he over took on a continuous white line, I actually know where that blind junction is and its a notorious black spot, but the rest is fine....great vid..

gucci · 13-05-2008 4:11pm

I always tell people that if they blink they'll miss my home village (Tarmonbarry) and its even true in your video!!

Gary ITR · 13-05-2008 4:38pm

HashSlinging wrote: »

Haha its sped up. he wasn’t actually driving that fast. Granted he over took on a continuous white line, I actually know where that blind junction is and its a notorious black spot, but the rest is fine....great vid..

Sorry that was my attempt at humour, really needed an excuse to use the new rolleyes guy!!

dunkindonuts · 13-05-2008 4:47pm

Wow what car do you have, is it the veyron.in 10 mins :cool:

Steve · 13-05-2008 4:58pm

Fantastic - great work.:D:D

C'mon - spill the beans, how'd you do it?

Praetorian · 13-05-2008 7:12pm

eoin_s wrote: »

Only watched a few seconds of it as I'm in work, but very cool - those types of vids are cool. Do you have somewhere to host the full version?

The nice quality version is actually 1.6 gigs :pac: but I can try and reduce it down somewhat if anyone wants a copy. If anyone is interested in the big file I can host a torrent. I have about 140 k per second upload

I don't have enough web space to host the file as a direct download.

The camera is a Panasonic nv-ds65, we mounted it on a tripod on the passenger side. We used two tapes on longplay, when I pull into the left we change the tape and the gap at Longford is where we had food. My friend used Adobe Premiere to edit the footage (which weighted in at 37 gigs!). He's got a great talent for video editing you can see more of his stuff here http://www.youtube.com/user/danand82

Thanks for all the comments. It's only a small economical car that we had for the day. I badly miss my Impreza WRX, but then perhaps we wouldn't have been bored enough to make the video

sergiotheonly · 13-05-2008 7:18pm

a minimal amount of editing required but thanks for being civil anyway

so which song do people prefer? I like the second one more. It's more

poetic or something...

vote people

javaboy · 13-05-2008 7:26pm

Cionád wrote: »

That was class, what camera were you using, and how is it mounted?

Would love to do one all the way to France

The ferry will be boring Ken. No need to videotape that.

djeclips · 13-05-2008 8:06pm

Great stuff:)

Cionád · 13-05-2008 8:06pm

javaboy wrote: »

The ferry will be boring Ken. No need to videotape that.

Thats where I change the tape

Once off the ferry the world will be inverted

Par72 · 13-05-2008 8:12pm

Cool vid! How long did the trip actually take? (I've to go to Westport soon)

Holsten · 13-05-2008 8:45pm

I can nearly see my house towards the end!

DMC · 13-05-2008 8:58pm

Very nice, brilliant in fact. Reminds me of the London-Brighton in 3½ minutes by train that the BBC used to use as filler in the 1980's. But your one is cooler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fRgP-xgrdk

Redsoxfan · 13-05-2008 9:31pm

@ OP-cool vid.

What is the music?

Sherifu · 13-05-2008 9:40pm

Watched till the end to see where you live OP but nothing

Praetorian · 13-05-2008 9:46pm

Hi, thanks all for kind comments.

1st song is Birthright (demo) by Celdweller. It has been used by the Wachowski brothers for the Speed Racer trailer.

2nd song is Breathe me by Sia. I think it was used in Six Feet Under.

Sherifu, I live in Balbriggan, but we would have needed another tape to get there because it took us an hour to get from the toll booth to the Finglas exit because of an accident!

Par72, the journey takes about 3 hours.