If you want to contribute to the making of the Club DVD being organised by Stephen Perry, myself and associates then please PM Stephen or myself for details or keep an eye on the running thread.

http://www.bmwcarclubforum.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=12409&a mp;a mp;a mp;PN=1

Alternatively you can also approach us with any ideas for the DVD at any of the club gatherings.

Footage will be taken from all club activities and we hope to cover as many mbrs' cars as possible. The film will be shown in unedited form at the November AGM. An edited version, which will focus on the cars, road trips, track days and with additonal features such as car profiles and 'crazy stuff' will be edited by Stephen, with soundtrack kindly provided by Martin.

Thanks to everyone who takes part.

Jon Beckett

 

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1998 Zeemax M Roadster
2005 X5 3.0D Sport
1991 Esprit SE Race car

I've also set up this:

http://www.4to60.com/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=23&page_id=39&PHPSESSID=ddb25ac0df6c39b186aa3fcde0048e58 - http://www.4to60.com/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=23&pa ge_id=39&PHPSESSID=ddb25ac0df6c39b186aa3fcde0048e58

Has only been live for 4 days and already I have signed:

911 Ruf

TVR Chimera 4.5 (Estoril Blue)

Mk1 Exige

All tuned and modified, all sub 5 seconds to 60. Should make for some interesting additional footage form within the cabin of M 8LUR. I've also got a friend who's runnign a GSX-R 600 to run ahead as the hare with a sticky pod cam mounted on the rear. Aim is to invite up to 20 mbrs initially with mornign raids of between 6-12 cars a few times each year with possible track days etc on top of that.

Stephen - I'll forward as soon as footage becomes available. I'll likely speak to you about running a second DVD project in tandem with this one as I'll appreciate BMW club members may not want to see footage of non-BMWs, although I'm sure a little as to how 8LUR does in such company may hold some curiosity.

excellent idea Jon, i love fast cars of any make and model - do you need a cameraman to ride shotgun in any of them?  (always worth a try lol)

thank you for the car dvds you sent me, ive been watching them this evening - some really good ones in there, the ss-r one is very well done, ive been downloading some more of that black lexus from his site, i like the idea of multiple cameras, ill have a go at the weekend with having a camera inside and one on the rear shelf, and have another look at mounting the webcam on the front bumper

nice little website btw, 4to60.com

just reading up on the latest modifications to your car and this caught my eye:

0-60 = 4.7 seconds
0-100 = 11 seconds
0-124 = 14 seconds
Quarter mile: 13 seconds (terminal unknown)

 that must be some wild ride, i'd love to get a passenger seat for some footage (okay, ill be honest, i want to see what a really fast car is like )

No problem Stephen, happy to have you along as my wing man.. Keep an eye on the site and I'll let you know details closer to the time. Right now I'm dedicated to adding mbrs.

I also bought Getaway in Stockholm 4 last w/e and it's superb with lots of beemers in attendance.

Those stats made possible by the new diff but I'll try to confirm proper times etc as soon as I get my G-meter properly calibrated.

8LUR was timed to 60 in 5.1 before the conversion and that was after going sideways in first up to 50 (with pax on board) so with better traction (Nitto R555 Super Drags + launch control) and a lower ratio then 4.7 is very realistic. 0-100 has always been quick but will again sharpen up a bit with the lower ratio. Charles Wan in HK always said the lower ratio to be like adding 30bhp/30lbft onto the Zee.

PM me & I'll let you know more about 4to60.com.

BR,

Jon

Interestingly CAR magazine timed a stock S50 MCoupe to 4.7 years ago but both mags and manufacturers allow a roll-up on those times (usually 8-12"). The Coupe loses less traction as there is virtually zero flex off the line.. very rigid cars the Coupes.

I allow only 2-5" for the G-Meter so it doesn't go off premature purely from the engine pick-up and instead counts once the car properly moves off the line.

I'll let Stephen (as Ed) explain in more detail but the aim to is create a fairly polished DVD of club antics over the year. A 2005 club review if you will but the aim is to make it fast moving like the Teckademics Mischief/Gumball type DVDs. There may be different versions and one wil be shown at the club AGM in November. Martin has provided some excellent tunes and the aim is to allow everyone to contribute as much footage as poss and then let the Ed team trim it down into something that would be appealing to not just club members but also a wider audience.

Tracks days, drag, RR days, road trips.. focussing on the cars as much as poss and I know Stephen aims to profile half a dozen or so of the most interesting models. I know Stephen has plenty of ideas so I'll let him lay it out.

M3CSL wrote: Can we arrange some promotional models?

That sounds just like my internal monologue...

We'll delegate that one to you Paul, you can round up the hotties..

Bagsey me the casting couch

I think Jon has pretty much summed it all up, we are always on the hunt for more footage, hence the camcorder and tripod last http://www.bmwcarclubforum.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=15570&PN=1 - saturday , better to have too much filming than too little so we can discuss what bits to keep and what bits to junk

Everyone has different ideas on what a club film should contain, some want club meetings, some want adrenalin-fuelled road and track action, i hope we strike a happy medium, but if not, there will be two versions, we are aiming for something exciting rather than monotonous and samey, and on that note, don't be shy, send your camcorder tapes and discs to me (pm for address), you'll be credited in the film, and if you think you have or know of a bee-em thats "a bit special" please pm me the spec and it might end up with a starring role! (numberplates will be obscured on request)

ah i see,so il be on it then heehee

mell wrote: ah i see,so il be on it then heehee

Mell you can be the DVD-babe..where's the t-shirt and the watering can...  not a sexist remark,... what....  oops..

Stephen, I'm attending East Fortune on the 14th so will send up some footage from that..

Excellent Jon , could you also send me a high quality clip of your previous video (BLUR running-in period)

Here's a 7 min clip to whet your appetites, some M3 and 323 action 

ftp://sperry.serveftp.com/dvd_taster.mpg - ftp://sperry.serveftp.com/dvd_taster.mpg

35 mb (right click, save as...)

if you can imagine the black screens at the start and end will be other videos you can see how it will all come together

stephenperry wrote: Excellent Jon , could you also send me a high quality clip of your previous video (BLUR running-in period)

Will do Stephen but it really was only a trial run and footage isn't exactly mind blowing. Will burn a CD and send up.

heres a clip of some antics, same as the 35Mb clip above except compressed and edited a little more

http://www.jam13.co.uk/videos/donuts.mpg - http://www.jam13.co.uk/videos/donuts.mpg

6.4 Mb

Good lad.

I've also got footage coming from east Fortune as wil Steve 535D.

Got a run tomorrow with a RUF 911... will try to send up footage shortly.. also Highlander Zed trip should provide some good footage.

Stephen - did you get the CDs from East Fortune I sent you??

I did thanks.

MEET THE OWNERS

if anyone who can't get to moffat would still like to be featured please download and complete this questionnaire and email it back to me with photographs of your car (high resolution JPEG format please)

http://www.bmwcarclubforum.co.uk/uploads/stephenperry/BMW_Car_Questionnaire.zip - BMW_Car_Questionnaire.zip  (MS Word format, 4kb)

Done - will send back shortly Stephen. If you PM me what sort of raw footage you need for meet the owners then I'll try to cobble together quickly and send up with the Highlander footage.  in about a week's time.. good with you?

Once you know roughly your final edit then send me down stills for the DVD cover and my and my m8 will get to work.

yeah, great, i'll do an example video and post on here so you can see the format

Cool.

i love the special effects on this one, courtesy of http://www.movie-projects.com - www.movie-projects.com

http://66.79.189.210/~movie/files/MP_004%20-%20M3.avi - http://66.79.189.210/~movie/files/MP_004%20-%20M3.avi

10mb, right-click, save as..

surprisingly awkward to catalogue, but as a very rough guide heres the footage we have so far...

november 2004 annual general meeting at hawes inn

january 2005 meeting at perth

february 2005 meeting at inverurie (including in-car footage of coupekings 530d raffle prize awarded at nov 2004 agm)

february 2005 meeting at hawes inn (including karting trip)

february 2005 new 3-series launch preview day at rockingham

march 2005 meeting at stonehaven

april 2005 north-east motorshow aberdeen

april 2005 elgin cruise

april 2005 falkland performance rolling road day

april 2005 meeting at hawes inn

may 2005 tour d' ecosse north scotland trip

may 2005 east fortune trackday

june 2005 Steve Gill at Nurburgring

june 2005 moffat classic car show / "meet the owners"

+

various driving footage of cars including stephenperry, m blur, torch str8 6, pete323, coupeking and noisufnoc

Good good Stephen,

How broad are you looking to make this? Would you say the vid will be 50:50 car/driving footage to club footage or will it be more or less car/driving biased?

You should have my 2 earlier vids + East Fortune footage which you can probably splice with Steve's .. Highlander Zed footage on its was up in about a week.

Looking fwd to reviewing the first edits.

Its mostly car driving footage I've got and static gatherings of cars, pub meets aren't really filmed (the footage from last novembers agm is of the trip down and back)

Fiddling about with chromakeying at the moment (where one video is laid on top of another and parts of the top layer are transparent), heres my first attempt at an effect seen on Top Gear where a car will be static and the background (usually a cloudy sky) will be speeded up

http://stephenperry.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/chromakey.rm - http://stephenperry.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/chromakey.r m

1.8mb, right-click, save as.... needs RealPlayer to view

been working on the "meet the owners" bit today, have interviews with these cars

cliff 323

john f

mell

pete323

r6 ory (? screenname  - purple m3 evo individual)

shorty

stephenperry

torch str8 6

Next dates for filming for "meet the owners" will be at the Fast & Modified show at Ingliston on Sunday 17th July, and the Motorvation classic car show at Alford on the 24th of July

stephenperry wrote: been working on the "meet the owners" bit today, have interviews with these cars cliff 323 john f mell pete323 r6 ory (? screenname  - purple m3 evo individual) shorty stephenperry torch str8 6 Next dates for filming for "meet the owners" will be at the Fast & Modified show at Ingliston on Sunday 17th July, and the Motorvation classic car show at Alford on the 29th of July

That will be the 24th July

thank goodness someone is always there to watch over me 

thanks for that

yes, thats 24th July, a Sunday too

After those 2 events - I think you'll cover most of us by then Stephen..

Finally meet proper at Ingliston... may be time to do filming before gates open to public once we're all set-up..

Doubt there will be time to do run-bys before we go into the show ground Mell but I guess it comes down to how early Stephen and the rest of us get there. Once gates open there then you're stuck until officials open gates to allow cars to leave - usually about 4ish depending on turnout and weather. It's probably easier to do car filming away from the show so Stephen can do the 'meet the owners' bit..

We also have to be mindful to expect a heavy police presence with plenty of cameras etc etc.. This is really geared at the young uns but nonetheless..

Got a few new plugins for adobe premiere pro, "trapcode shine" which gives a kind of backlighting effect, "magic bullet suite" which gives lots of different lighting and tints to video, to make it look more like famous films, and one called "misfire" which simulates damage to give that "old film" effect

just spent a couple of hours going through the rest of the tour de ecosse videos trying to trim them down a bit (theres about 9 hours worth! )

Grain and againg are easy effects in MS Moviewmaker though the other sounds really cool Stephen..

Stevie, i still need to do my interview thing too, so maybe the next meet we are both at.......

Cool.. who do you still have to do from the list of cars/drivers being featured Stevie..?

shorty wrote: @ Stephen can i do mine again cos i know i looked a PRATT !!!!!!!

if you insist, but nothing wrong with it as it is

M BLUR wrote:   Cool.. who do you still have to do from the list of cars/drivers being featured Stevie..?

well you for a start

getting as many as possible at the moment, the motto is "if you want to be interviewed, youre in"

ive bring my laptop to the show so you can see the raw footage of the interviews, we can discuss the ones to keep to edit into a proper interview, the ones that need redoing, and the ones to forget about (mine springs to mind )

ordered an external 160gb hard drive today for backup for the videos in case it all goes **** up

plus, it finally means the ftp server will be back up again when they complete the migration to 2mb demon internet, should be within the next week or so

please accept my apologies for missing the show yesterday, unforseen circumstances caused by a works barbeque and a free bar

will definately definately definately be at alford car show on sunday

the first 15 mins of the dvd has been done, with january and february events covered, more to follow tonight

 that's the funniest one so far

lol hey wasnt my fault i was distracted!!!!!!!!!

plus i won my raffle durin the take lol

i hate being on cam

thats the first half hour completed (first draft), very pleased with the results so far

when is the next Hawes meeting?

just thinking i can catch up with some of you there instead to do interviews, seeing as i missed ingliston

stephenperry wrote: when is the next Hawes meeting? just thinking i can catch up with some of you there instead to do interviews, seeing as i missed ingliston

End of the month meet is 31st July at Motherwell

I know you said it did not sound your cup of tea?

But Sat at Arbroath would be a fantastic opportunity for you

Be round at mine for 0745 and i will take you

go on stev you know it makes sense

nah, arbroath seafront craptacular doesn't look like it's got anything i want to see, if i want to see the raf playing at being tom cruise i just need to sit outside in the garden for five minutes while the pilots from raf lossiemouth and kinloss play silly beggars with taxpayers money 

i'll see some of you at alford on sunday though 

lalalalala im not listening

okay, yours will be on the cutting room floor until we do a "directors cut" version or you change your mind

stephenperry wrote: when is the next Hawes meeting? just thinking i can catch up with some of you there instead to do interviews, seeing as i missed ingliston

gr8 if you can make next Hawes Stephen.. will bring the new bling bling... .. and do interview etc then.

will try for Motherwell if I can meet up with Tommy, Neil etc first as I haven't been b4 and don't know my way.. conscious I haven't been b4 + will try and make a northern meet one of these days.

Will also try to make next Hawes so hopefully we can hook up that interview etc.,.. b4 anyone asks - I'm not bringing the gloves...

stephenperry wrote: whats happening at motherwell again pete?

Just the end of month monthly meet for July (instead of Hawes)

Spreading our wings for rest of year

mell wrote: will there be details about the motherwell meet?

http://www.bmwcarclubforum.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=19604&PN=2 - http://www.bmwcarclubforum.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=19604&a mp;PN=2

http://www.rog.me.uk/USSC%20Drag.wmv - http://www.rog.me.uk/USSC%20Drag.wmv

Some drag action form last weekend's Ultimate Scottish Street Car - you may recognise a certain M Roadster although I was a few tenths outside making the shootouts and finals. Perhaps some footage we can use for the DVD Stephen - old Roger (Admiral) got some nice smoking slides on the Nitoo drag slicks. Best was only a 13.6 but that's still better than most M3s and ZMs. Some NOS would have been nice as we were reaching foruth well before th eterminal and coudl so with a nice injection fo grunt to push the wee gal down under the 13 mark.

Stephen,

Sending up a 43 Gb of raw footage clips from Zed run etc. + second CD with still shots from the same trip. Skim through and there's some good stuff plus plenty of action of barmy ZM drivers..

I say close the gates at the end of the month - then we can decide on possible screen shots for DVD cover and I'll get to work with that.

Do you have all of Martin's tunes saved to disc for use?

Cheers

Jon

yes, i sure do, all the ones he sent originally

as you say, the end of the month should be the cut-off date, ill put a final request in this evening

Is this DVD still going to be a Scottish Region DVD with events from our region calender

Hi Guys,

Although I'm now a Merc driver, I'm still happy for you guys to use some of my tunes. Do you have a ftp site I can upload to.

Can I also give you the correct credits for the end of DVD -

Music supplied by Turquoise Egg Music Management

Written & Produced by Martin Kay for Turquoise Egg

Published by Zazoo Music Publishing

pete323 wrote: Is this DVD still going to be a Scottish Region DVD with events from our region calender

all the events that have got video footage for...

pete323 wrote: Is this DVD still going to be a Scottish Region DVD with events from our region calender

Pretty much Pete - but it's a driving DVD centred on mbrs of the BMWCCGB event.. what goes on depends on how entertaining/boring it is. We also cannot accomodate the full calendar as we need time to edit and turn it from a 2-bit club DVD into sth people would actually like to watch.

What it'll then cover will depend a lot on what people have contributed. Got to be in it, to be in it if you seen what I mean..

Please submit your videos and pictures by the end of this month (September), pm me for my postal address - i accept Mini DV and Hi-8 format camcorder tapes, CD and DVD.

Tapes will be returned after use.

Numberplates will be obscured on request.

Email photographs to mailto:stephen@perry1976.demon.co.uk - stephen@perry1976.demon.co.uk

Then the fun begins eh Stephen..

the fun continues, as ive done quite a bit so far

ill get it done then send you a copy of it for comments, if its okay then you can make the covers

Love it when a plan comes together... from the sample you've sent and an idea of yur wavelength then I think we're in for a treat..

BMW Midnight Society..

The Haggis Job

Mod, Stock and 2 smoking tailpipes

Have to say last Gumball DVd was pretty poor.. Teckademics stuff as good if not better and I quite liked the CannonballrunEurope DVD...the whole "he's a scouser" thing.. choice!

Also recently bought latest Get Awyay in Stockholm..(think it' #5) run is the poorest yet tho the special features etc weren't bad.

Looking forward to shortlisted stills and will then bash on with DVD covers..

Timing-wise so far nicely on track for AGM. I think the footage took a real leap forward when Steve started to frequent the Ring with his diesel Bayern thunder taxi..

Look forward to draft in due course. Then before final edit a preview to the committee before final showing at AGM.. how does that sound?

music, videos and pictures to go here please

ftp://perry1976.demon.co.uk - ftp://perry1976.demon.co.uk

stephenperry wrote: sounds okay, youll have to show it to the committee if theres a private meeting before the agm

Will do Stephen - I can run past Jim and Tommy for comment as both live relatively near me - Tommy made up the other mbr of the editing team so that we had a committee mbr involved and It'll be good to gauge Tommy's opinion first. It's probably not a bad idea to by the chairman before the AGM either...

M BLUR wrote: Also recently bought latest Get Awyay in Stockholm..(think it' #5) run is the poorest yet tho the special features etc weren't bad.

i agree, keep your eyes peeled for the new Ghost Rider 4 film, it's motorbikes, but there's an m coupe in it

Nice one Stephen.. looking fwd to first cut..

Jon