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Clay Porter's new film

Steve M

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Yeah, F1rst is a really good account of the season. Puts things into perspective from race to race and within each of the top contenders' careers.

Rather different than race coverage on a choppy stream with screaming commentary with a British accent.
Imagine trying to ice-skate down Mt Everest whilst performing a handstand and juggling full-throttle chainsaws with your feet at the same time as solving world poverty using only an abacus and a pair of beans and modelling time as a fourth geometric dimension using only Microsoft Excel and you can begin to understand the complexities of the wankery we're talking about.
 

MattPatt

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Yeah because 3-6 minute clips are the same thing as a well thought out, themed or story lined feature length presentation.

Not everybody views bike videos as 'news'.
I get what you're saying KidWoo and agree that a good bike flick needs to go well beyond being a replay of the event. That said, I think there's also something to be taken from MFrider's point of view which I think is... A successful race film really does need to find a way to reveal more to the audience about the event, the scene, the riders and the journey in between.

Clearly Clay Porter already is well aware aware of this and this is I think what makes his films so much more than a highlight reel and allows them to be watched again and again. Live broadcasts, webisodes, and team-focused marketing videos are great and really allow us to 'be there', but good films like Clay's stand the test of time and give far greater permanence to the events.
 

- seb

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imagine trying to ice-skate down mt everest whilst performing a handstand and juggling full-throttle chainsaws with your feet at the same time as solving world poverty using only an abacus and a pair of beans and modelling time as a fourth geometric dimension using only microsoft excel and you can begin to understand the complexities of the wankery we're talking about.
Fpmsl :D
 

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Imagine trying to ice-skate down Mt Everest whilst performing a handstand and juggling full-throttle chainsaws with your feet at the same time as solving world poverty using only an abacus and a pair of beans and modelling time as a fourth geometric dimension using only Microsoft Excel and you can begin to understand the complexities of the wankery we're talking about.
Must spread rep... :D
 

S.K.C.

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Imagine trying to ice-skate down Mt Everest whilst performing a handstand and juggling full-throttle chainsaws with your feet at the same time as solving world poverty using only an abacus and a pair of beans and modelling time as a fourth geometric dimension using only Microsoft Excel and you can begin to understand the complexities of the wankery we're talking about.
This thread IS Socket's Kryptonite...

:D

As for Porter's last film F1RST, I thought that was the best race season documentary yet. Great segments and some fantastic personal stories/behind the scenes with the pros. Gave a great window into their personalities and what they were thinking, as the season unfolded.
 
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Steve M

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This thread IS Socket's Kryptonite...

:D

As for Porter's last film F1RST, I thought that was the best race season documentary yet. Great segments and some fantastic personal stories/behind the scenes with the pros. Gave a great window into their personalities and what they were thinking, as the season unfolded.
Wasn't his last film The Tipping Point? Which had all his trademark awesome footage and editing as well as good backing music, except without the zombie-like narration. I thought Tipping Point was actually f'ing awesome, but some of the stuff from FIR5T was hilarious because of just how ridiculous it was. The actual footage was great. With the Tipping Point I think he finally got the documentary/drama he was going for without it coming across as contrived.
 

luiz carlos

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With all the great coverage on racing from Freecaster and Dirt, I no longer see the sense in buying a video that comes out 6 months after the season ended. It is old news.
I agree with you in part.....

But The Tipping Point was released April 2009_the season ended in September 2008_and was a very good movie. A diferent point of view of the season....very interesting to watch.
 

Capricorn

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the interesting bit for a 2009 season movie, is how clay will bake it. He seems to have found the sweet spot for the formula applied from Between The Tape, F1rst and then Tipping Point. UNless he wants to spin the handle on teh sausage machine again, and thus generate another similar flavoured product (not that it's bad to bgin with), he might just be tempted to try something new. Whilst not in the same direction, I'm salivating at the thought of Follow Me. but props to Clay on producing awesome films off what is essentially a one-man solo mission from capturing to editing and producing.
 

stiksandstones

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the interesting bit for a 2009 season movie, is how clay will bake it. He seems to have found the sweet spot for the formula applied from Between The Tape, F1rst and then Tipping Point. UNless he wants to spin the handle on teh sausage machine again, and thus generate another similar flavoured product (not that it's bad to bgin with), he might just be tempted to try something new. Whilst not in the same direction, I'm salivating at the thought of Follow Me. but props to Clay on producing awesome films off what is essentially a one-man solo mission from capturing to editing and producing.
Are you sure you do not have Clay Porter the movie producer confused with Clay Porter the chef?
 

S.K.C.

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Wasn't his last film The Tipping Point? Which had all his trademark awesome footage and editing as well as good backing music, except without the zombie-like narration. I thought Tipping Point was actually f'ing awesome, but some of the stuff from FIR5T was hilarious because of just how ridiculous it was. The actual footage was great. With the Tipping Point I think he finally got the documentary/drama he was going for without it coming across as contrived.
Holy crap - brain slipped a gear.. YES - I meant "Tipping Point"... :redface:
 

- seb

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I presume I'm not the only person to have nabbed all of the finally files from mpora and combined them into one hour+ feature-length 09 race season video? :)
 

luiz carlos

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I presume I'm not the only person to have nabbed all of the finally files from mpora and combined them into one hour+ feature-length 09 race season video? :)
I made this yesterday with Real Player and then ConvertXtoDVD software and the result was amazing. A good 2009 race movie made at my home.

Step by step:

1. download real player
2. open each video in HD format
3. pass the mouse over the video and click download(if you have a slow conection , be patient)
4. download convertxtodvd software(or any other similar software)
5. open convertx...select all 6 video files(in order, of course)
6. and yes...be happy,your 2009 race movie is done with a great image quality.
 

spinner

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I presume I'm not the only person to have nabbed all of the finally files from mpora and combined them into one hour+ feature-length 09 race season video? :)
No you're not :) Finally was my first "project" in this realm. During the season , I've made compilations of the best webisodes (Dirt TV , MTB Cut etc ) from each WC round , spliced them together , converted to DVD and now have about 9 hours worth of the 2010 season to watch on the big screen. I'm waiting on the last episode of the Atherton Project to be released so I can finalise that project and burn it. Same with Trek World racing.

The quality and quantity of footage available is too good to go to waste ! :thumb: