rollercoaster footage????

[Akira]

Anyone know where I can find some decent footage taken from a rollercoaster? I did a search through altavista and only found some stuff on www.discovery.com but the quality is pretty bad. Anyway, if you know where to get some (even from a movie) that would be great.

cheers.

[spook]

would you settle for a 3D animated loop?

if so, you should be able to find one in my uploads on the audiovisualizers hotline server. if you cant find it, let me know and i will point you in the right direction.

otherwise, most of the video footage i have found, does not match up well in a loop.

depending on your personal style, you could take your shitty footage you downloaded already and run it though some goodies in aftereffects to make it unique...

good luck!

[Yetimon]

A quick search in Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=roll) came up with...

Here Comes a Rollercoaster and Other Fun-Filled Rides (http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=85365113039)
America's Greatest Roller Coaster Thrills: The Ultimate Scream Machines (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004STHK/104-6565598-7574340)

plus a pile of titles at www.ultimaterollercoaster.com (http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/souvenirs/videos_idx.html)
and
www.screamscape.com (http://www.screamscape.com/html/videos___music.html)

(Gotta love Google!) :)

[Akira]

I think I found some footage over at:
http://roller-coaster.searsfamily.com/files.html

not sure if there's any shots from the rollercoasters themselves (you know, like first person perspectives etc) but what the hell, they're pretty good quality :D

Anyway, just thought I'd share the love ;)

[infopocalypse]

I am going to go to an amusement park at least once during the summer, DV camera in hand (as well as a slew of extra batteries).

James

[AudioVisualizers]

> I want rollercoaster footage...shots from the rollercoasters >themselves (POV)

I have all of the tapes listed above in my collection, but I'm not into copying them for others. However, my 1991 video: "PsyberFlight" is 20 minutes long, and is based around first person POV (originally shot for 3D head mounted display) footage I shot from the front of half a dozen rollercoasters at Canada's Wonderland (one of Canada's biggest ride parks). You can download it from my hotline server in both 300 & 500 meg versions (both 320x240, slightly different compression on the diff files). And you're welcome to use it or parts of it for whatever suits your needs.

-dave

[Akira]

thanks for that, I'm downloading it as we speak. I got a few more vids from that site I mentioned earlier and some of them are POV, but their a little shakey :D

[isobrown]

there's also a coney island video available on archive.org wich is full of old rollercoasters (at least 20 loops to sample !)

[KillingFrenzy]

And of course the Roller Coaster scene from "Vacation" when they finally get to ride the coaster.


Note: They often won't let you take things like your DV camera on a coaster, so you'll have to sneak it on there. They don't want it flying out of you hand and smashing on the pavement any more than you do.

[infopocalypse]

Hence my cool crazy riggings.

[complexvisuals]

I brought my cam onto Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain in Disney.

Space Mountain was just a load of lights spining round

Thunder Mountain was really hard to hold the camera straight in relation to the carraige. I think you really need to clamp it to something.

C.

[infopocalypse]

Cool crazy riggings.

Try taking a belt pack or something of the like and sewing it onto there.

[robotfunk]

on one of my 40+ unspotted/ungrabbed tapes there are some bits from a (discovery?) documentary about rollercoasters. It will probably have dutch subtitles and I probably won't find time soon to find and grab it but I'll look for it and let you know when I find it.

[apoll001]

Hi there!

Check this site out :http://24.156.85.81/POV.htm

I hope this helps!?

[Akira]

sorry, couldn't get the link to work :(

[Akira]

hmmm, must have just been busy before. it's working now. thanks for the link :D

[apoll001]

just try "POV Videos" or so at google, you should find some there

here?s one more:

http://www.guidetothepoint.com/content.aspx?channel=3

[Meierhans]

These clips really rock! They are taken with a cam that is directly mounted to the rollercoaster.
Nearly no shacking, cool :jump:

[AudioVisualizers]

I took 384x288 POV rollercoaster clips, from our VJ Loop TMK#1 CDR: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/library/2001cdrs/tmk1/tmk1.htm and posted them to my site for your download pleasure at: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/library/2001cdrs/weekly_loops/ Enjoy! -dave

[FullFusion]

This is the sickest roller coaster out there. Its in Sandusky OH, the second tallest in the world (second to its sister coaster in Japan which is 5 feet taller) the first drop is something like 83 degrees. 7 less than straight down. at 90+ mph. NUTS! go to cedar point in OH and ride this if you can. You won't regret it.
http://www.guidetothepoint.com/content.aspx?channel=3

[pixeltakt]

-> go to http://www.eon.de
-> stay or go to the german (deutsch) page
-> click "e.on gewinnspiel" (upper right)
-> wait for the stupid flash game/site to load
-> click on TV-Spots (the first one "achterbahn" is a rollercoaster-clip)
the rollercoaster-clip and all the rest of the clips there are pretty nice 3d-animated tv-commercials - if you dont wanna use them because of what they are, i think you perhaps can get a bit of inspiration ...


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