no sleeping near train tracks

[hoofandmouf]

So the new place I moved into recently is damn close to a railroad and a couple times a day/night the trains ROAR on thru.... shakes the walls.... rumbling.... damn loud... no sleep to be had when they roll thru

this is a little short I threw together concerning this issue

http://www.roadwerkpictures.com/Bakahatsu.mov

 

[pmgmedia]

that was cool. I like that when you pause the clip, all the print on the side of the train is completely sharp. What shutter setting were you using?

 

[Ming]

Very cool. Good work.

 

[Justyn]

Nice mood and vid here. Like the ending title with transition. Looked great.

 

[Justin Marx]

nice footage.. not sure why it was 27 megs? work on your compression..

 

[hoofandmouf]

pmgmedia, 1/1000th

justin marx, H.264 @ 800kbs 320x240........ any other suggestions/tips/advice on compression settings for web would be great (I reckon I could have made a flash video but I aint got flash 8..... yet)

hey thanks for the comments guys:beer:

 

[Evan S]

would have been cool to speed up the train than slow it down and make it go in reverse

 

[JZalutsky]

Flash video compression is pretty lame I think quicktime is good....how are u compressing? high quality h.264 using quicktime conversion in fcp seems to do pretty good....videos kinda cool for a little thing. i liked the strobbing of the 1/1000th shutter cool look.

 

[JZalutsky]

you could do alot of cool stuff with that footage in cc/fx too. day for night would be fun. some motion graphics stuff if your into that haha, I could see a really cool little thing.

 

[Alan Dague-Greene]

That was great! Not typical of what you see shown, very clever editing, and I loved the titles at the end. I gotta ask what the music was.

 

[hoofandmouf]

the song was "bakahatsu" by the band part chimp..... they are a loud noise rock band from the UK

their music often reminds me of a train.... particularly this song

 

[Alan Dague-Greene]

Kinda reminds me of the "Train to Sao Paolo" sequence from Powaqqatsi, with music by Philip Glass.