I have my voiceover intro and Brian's stuff edited. I just need to finish John and record a couple of voiceovers and I'm done.

Also, a friend has kept encouraging me to include Homer Simpson saying "star wipe!" and a star wipe somewhere. My only way of resisting is that iMovie doesn't actually have a star wipe.

Writing voiceovers is awful. I had something ready, I said it, and it sounded like crap. I tried writing again and it was crap. Then I ad-libbed something and it sounded good until I flubbed it. I ad-flubbed and now I have two good lines after 15 minutes. Jeesh.

Wasn't able to touch base with this other autocross guy Chris. Unless I can find someone else over the weekend, I might have to make do with Brian and Jonh. I have plenty from the both of them, but eh.

This is going to be a pain to edit together. I have Brian to narrate the autocross footage (he's also going to give me some in-car footage of a run in his dad's car) and John for some Miata history as well as his take on the generational divide, not to mention a metric ass-ton of HD footage, plain audio, and recordings from my digital camera. Then I'm talking to unconventional-owner Chris possibly on Friday. I should make a 20 minute video and throw it on double speed with subtitles.

Cincinnati was awesome. John gave a good interview and took me on some great backroads. The HD Canon from OIT takes amazing video.

I have a few clips of the drives up here: I'm in the yellow car except for the inside shot.

http://www.vimeo.com/4775657
http://www.vimeo.com/4775727
http://www.vimeo.com/4775695

Brian gave a good interview. Had damn helicopters going over the whole time, but not a lot I can do about that.

Checked out one of the Canon HD camcorders for OIT to take down to Cincinnati tomorrow in addition to my other one, plus another tripod. Should be good for along-the-road exterior shots, providing there's a road where I can leave a camera stationary on a corner.