I’m on 32mm Pirelli P7 Sports, absolute rubbish! They were cheap at my local bike shop. Totally unsuitable for off-road, and slow on tarmac too. I have a spare set of wheels with Schwalbe G Ones but the bearings are shot, so I really need a new set of wheels and fatter tyres for gravel. The Pirellis are fine for riding to work, but I’ll swap them at some point. I like to run race tyres because they’re so much faster and more comfortable (GP5000’s or Pro Ones usually). Spares have been hard to get hold of recently, due to Covid supply chain issues and probably Brexit, which is annoying.
Yeah the Sidstation is really retro and dirty! It’s noisy but has a distinctive sound. I bought it back in 2000 not long after it was released, it hadn’t worked since about 2004 but just needed a new PSU and a memory reset. I think they started getting more expensive as the stocks of SID chips started running out, mine was fairly cheap but they go for around 800 Euros now so it was a good buy. Can stick some samples up if anyone wants them.
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Some gravel music from Bitwig
That was great, fantastic looking trails! Here’s another VCV/bike one, in the hills near Edinburgh. Takes a while to edit a ride from over an hour down to 4 or 5 minutes, most people wouldn’t watch it for that long. Also the quality seems really bad after uploading to YouTube, even though it was filmed in 4k.
I’m mainly training inside now, so next video will be back to the modular guitar effects
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Beautiful mate! Loved the downhill part at the end, well in the middle, there’s som empty minutes by the end. Anyway, lovely views, great sounding patch, quality is cool, it takes a while for YouTube to process the quality. Great work again!!
More please!
Thanks! Yeah I made a mistake with the editing software and didn’t notice the blank part at the end. Might try filming a road ride next, hopefully I’ll get a few in before the weather gets crappy. I used to ride in any weather but train on Zwift over the winter now!
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Cool, I’m looking forward to film some night rides in the snow in a couple of months. MTB and moonlight and snow over vcv patches!
More of Path Set modular and some gravel roads
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Nice one, I’m enjoying these!
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Another good one! I might do another one of these soon. Filmed a ride to work with the new GoPro, need to mix down a patch and edit the video. I have so many half finished projects on the go at once!
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Hey @SpaceTraffic Sparvnätter, what do you use for video editing? I’m using Resolve, and here’s the first video filmed with the new GoPro:
https://youtu.be/TjYge1alNRM
It was a difficult one to finish! The Hero 11 uses HEVC for compression, which isn’t supported by Resolve. I had to download a codec first, which then enabled Resolve to play them back, but it was unusable for editing. I then had to generate optimised media, which used up all the space on my C drive and crashed everything. After changing the settings to use a different drive for the media, I ran it again and it took almost 2 hours to chew through the files, generating 200Gb. After that, it worked normally but the resolution on the finished video looks lower than the mp4 files straight off the camera, even though I selected 4k for the render settings.
I really don’t like video editing!
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Can it be that YouTube right now is processing your video for 4k. Sometimes it takes hours to finish.
I think you can change codec in the cam?
I used to use Resolve, great software but my machine is from 2015 and only 8gb ram so 4k in resolve works slow, weirdly it run super smooth in Final Cut. So I migrated to FC instead. They also offer 90 days of fully functional trial. Are you on Mac?
Yeah, editing and codec and all those billions of settings is mad boring for real, but it’s worth to spend some time figure stuff out. Using proxy media can be a thing to speed things up, if I understand that right, you edit in lower quality but export in high. But even in FC I don’t need to use proxy, even with only 8gb of ram. It’s pretty smooth anyway. And I have all raw footage on external hard drive and when editing I still leave it there, I never transfer it to my internal disk. Only external all the way.
Dude, the new video is lovely! Super great beats! And nice ride… how do you dare to keep your bike outside, mine follows all the way in, I place it in the hall outside the office.
Ha thanks! The bike shed is outside, I’m on the 3rd floor now so can’t take it in! I’m only in the office one day a week anyway. I’m on PC, decent spec (i9 5Ghz, 16Gb, RTX2070 Super VGA) but Resolve is quite laggy sometimes. I already turned down the edit quality, and generating optimised media really helped. I’m still researching and learning this stuff, so hopefully the next one will look smoother.
I might look at FC though, thanks for the tip!
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Ah cool! FC is Mac only. I’ve discovered that in FC having the exact project setting as footage settings is mega important, if I drag in stuff with different settings everything gets messed up and slow… also exact frame (fps) settings and stuff. Sounds like your computer is stronger than mine. Mine is upgradable but I’ve take pride in keeping only 8gb… see how far I can get!
Looking forward for more content but I will re watch this you did again. Dope!
Oh another important notice, what slows down my editing is not the GoPro footage but the OBS studio beats capture screen videos. I need to process all my OBS clips in Ableton and export them to 4k and the same settings as FC project. If I add a lower res direct from OBS capture it freezes. Thankfully Ableton can export to 4k video…
Nice view of Kiev - beautiful town!
Yeah, I have a fixed gear too! Love riding fixed.
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