The Devil's Backbone Inaugural Invitational
Hey!
I just want to give you a quick update.
I'm sorry for the HUGE delay in getting my videos of the races uploaded. I greatly appreciate the patience. I have been hesitent to say much of anything about the delays as I do not want to seem like I am making excues. The short of it all is that I have bitten off more than my computer can process and life has happened... a lot.
Since starting this channel I have started a new job and have been dealing with taking care of and raising my family. In addition to that I had a death in the family which resulted in me being oit of the state for a period of time and no progress was made on any videos during that time.
My computer is having massive issues processing the slowed down and high frame rates I have been trying with. One initial rendering that I did that slowed my recorded frame rate from 120fps down to 60fps with no additional graphics processing took over 48 hours to complete. With each edit my computer seems to be struggling to handle the workload. Many many times I end up with the spinning beachball of death and a little note popping up saying that the program is not responsive. This alone has slowed the editing down a lot. Therre has also been many comments about the quality of the videos being "poor" and I think this is partly due to the processing and partly due to the learning curve. Like I said I feel like this is just making an excuse but it is the truth none the less.
I have ran most of the runs from the Inaugural Invitational and 24 Seconds of Lemons races and all of the Star Wars May the 4th Be With You Race. I still have the last two runs of the Inaugural Invitational and the 24 Seconds of Lemons Races to find out who is the fastest and slowest at the track. My Slanman Customs Timer failed to ever work correctly and so I have had to resort to measuring the time by using the camera footage from start to finish. Not my ideal choice of timing, but it's getting the job done.
The May the 4th Be With You Races have all been run but now it is just the slow post processing that is bogging down the process. I am going to be releasing each race from the first round as it's own video rather than all races from round one at once. I might do this also for round two but I have not decided one way or not yet.
All cars that were sent in and that met the requirements/rules to be raced WILL be shown.
I also am debating on doing a Go Fund Me or something to try to help speed up the process of saving for a computer that can properly handle the video editing. I am curious as to what you think about that idea. I feel like it is begging but I also feel obligated to everyone who has sent in a car.
I am holding off of any other new races until I am ALL caught up. I really want to do a Steampunk Themed race, but until I can get caught up it will be on the back burner and will be my reward for being ready for races again.
Lastly if you wanted your car back I will be working on getting them sent back ASAP! The fastest cars from the Inaugural Invitational and the slowest cars from the 24 Seconds of Lemons will be the last to be returned as they will be raced against each other to find out who gets the top/bottom spots.
Thank you for understanding and please don't give up on me or my channel. I am going through the start-ip growing pains.
Best regards,
John
Formula Diecast Racing
Congratulations on your first race on the new track I hope all goes well I know it's gonna be a lot of fun!!!!!!!