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.

I have roughly 2 minutes of usable autocross footage. Why did I film so many launches compared to the rest of the runs? Because I am crap at tripod tracking, that's why. I should check out those Panasonics at OIT to see if they would be better than my Canon - I really want quality stuff from my big Thursday excursion.

Talking with Brian from the autocross on Wednesday. Loves autocrossing his car but will have to get him going on the right subjects, not a very talkative dude (I thought I was bad)

Didn't get a chance to record any interviews at the autocross, but I did get good race footage and get to ride in a 1991 turbo owned by an OSU student I'm going to talk to on campus later this week. People were going through the lines for runs fairly quickly and couldn't dawdle afterwards due to other folks needing the lot, plus I'd forgotten I'm quite the bashful bastard when it comes to crowd social situations. Excuses! Bah. On a purely film-unrelated note, I'm definitely going to run in the next one - just need to get some front suspension stuff sorted out.