So many stunts for such a short time-frame, love to see it! The whole video was put together really well, with solid editing work by both of you and all the fun scripted sequences slotted throughout. Seeing Darkstar's tool in action was great, and it was especially satisfying to see those two stunts composited together without needing to limit the camerawork options (and I got a good chuckle at the end with the back and forth about sharing the roof).

Some editing highlights for me included the camerawork leading into the opening stunts of both parts; the transition from Darkstar's hotring docks stunt to Sheikah's downtown taxi ring in part 1, and the drumbeat-transition in part 2 going from my boat grind into Rainbow's stoppie to grind; the camerawork used to capture Max's LC taxi stunt in part 1; and how nicely you guys captured both of my vehicle-hit stunts! Favourite stunts for me had to include Sheeptea's Part 1 grind to csm bump to roof, Haywire's part 2 opener, and Sorcery's part 2 psm to ledgegrind.

All made for a good fun watch, nice work everyone!
And cheers to Sheikah for organising the project! I had a blast stunting on that weekend to get stuff for for it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMhZb9DlSY
Made a little reaction/commentary vid on the video and what the process was like for those interested ♥

That was great, I very much enjoyed getting the behind-the-scenes look at the project! As for the disappearing gun (which I must admit I hadn't actually noticed until you pointed it out), yeah that is strange. There is a Freeplay feature for showing/hiding player weapons - set to F10 in the last released version (moved elsewhere for an upcoming release) - but if that wasn't pressed then I'd say it indeed must be a bug of some sort.

the Voodoo stunt since Max did that 10x better in Pimpin 2

Thank you so much for mentioning this! The voodoo stunt is something I'd been wanting to do for ages, but never had much luck with it, and while I was very happy to finally get a version of it while stunting for this vid, it wasn't how I'd originally envisioned it. And now that I've watched Pimpin 2 (also a really fun video!): Max nailed it, that's exactly what I had in mind - it's super cool to see it fully done.

Been stunting for this a bit today and got at least one that's decent, count me in 

Awesome edit Haywire, it was all put together so well, making for such a fun watch that just made me wanna fire up the game and do some more stunting myself. The shot of ARS's hotring leaving the airport roof was so satisfying I think I could watch just that bit over and over (ditto the start of Faiz's rooftop csm stunt), also starting Skuller's double-grind with that low-angle shot was sweet, as was the framing on Sheeptea's taxi landing, and the look of the camera in the intro shots - really all the camerawork was lovely! I had a good chuckle watching how you worked in mine and Kingjad's bail stunts, and again with the swapping over to the PCJ nametag in my credits stunt. Also the way the intro lead into the video's title reveal, and the use of the bike audio heading into the start of part 2, were both really nice.

Stunts were all solid! A few favourites of mine being Rainbow's polebump to precision, Fighter's BSM 2 roof (particularly how it kisses the wall as its going over), Morbidxxx's + Haywire's bonking and grinding into grinds, and Max's backwards tank stunt (it's cool seeing the tank used that way, and the way it wrapped up so neatly at the end with the turn-around upon hitting the tree was perfect). Quite a number of grind combos/precisions too which was impressive, and I'm always a fan of seeing other guys landing in the back of trucks.

Cheers for running this project Smut, and Haywire on the edit, it turned out great guys, I'm stoked to have been a part of it!

Cheers everyone for your comments on the video, I appreciate it! Thanks again to Skuller for taking care of this project, it was good to work together on this.

Now its BONUS FEATURES time!

Starting off simply, here's a couple (temporary) direct-download links of the main video that haven't been through the youtube ringer. I had one ready earlier but I wasn't too impressed with the excessive filesize, so with this extra time (apologies for the delay) I have finally gone and done some more efficient re-renders:

• 720p (470mb)
• 1080p (840mb)

And there's NEW STUFF too - I've made a behind-the-scenes commentary video!
Not sure how interesting it will be to watch, but at least I've found making it to be a satisfying way to cap off the project, so I'm good with that. If anyone is keen, be warned that its just over 25min long (talking over the original video played back at roughly half speed; with on-screen text used to go into more detail or cover extra topics - and avoid making the whole thing hours long), and the audio is far from perfect (it was the first time I've done something like this, the room had background noise, and all the recordings were just talking into a phone, thus also probably a little inconsistent too). If I haven't talked you out of it, here's a link to check it out:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpXUxYBg1CI

Thanks all!

The new Freeplay version has now been released and can be found this post of the Freeplay thread for anyone interested.

Absolutely crazy. I've also been trying this kind of edit for a time now and adjusting the mouse is just pure pain. Good job.

You probably will document it with the release but, is 8:42 a feature or video crop animation? It was not possible to move cam while retaining the original vehicle speed as far as I know.

Also is it possible to add camera stop slowdown for smoothness? Every cam movement so far were too sharp. It would've been much cooler to have it. Even managing it with parameter input would be killer.

Thanks!

Yeah the sideways camera movement at 8:42 was done using the new Freeplay. The old "Camera Lean Options" setting (which changes how horizontal mouse movement affects the freecam), has been improved and now covers 5 options: the game-default of doing horizontal rotation around the player, then 3 that do a kind of "roll" effect instead, and 1 that does a "pan" effect - it was that last one that I used for this stunt (and during the airtime of Kingjad's downtown taxi stunt).

Regarding camera smoothness, there are ways to adjust the base camera speed (can be incremented/decremented via keyboard or mouse keys, or can be specifically set via the new frep-file feature), and it can be changed on-the-fly to alter the speed as while the camera is in motion (though that wont be as easy for the frep-file approach). Is that what you had in mind? Or if you meant perhaps a way to have camera movement begin by 'building up to' the defined speed, rather than immediately starting at full speed? In that case no Freeplay doesn't currently support that but it has indeed been something on my mind, and as a result of some of the other changes I've done behind the scenes with this latest release, it may be possible (for some types of camera movement), though there'd still be things to figure out such as how long I should have it take to reach the proper speed, and whether that should be dependant on what the proper speed is, etc.

Thanks for all the feedback everyone, its been lovely to read and watch!

An updated Freeplay was indeed used for this video - both it and the video were developed side-by-side throughout. Either one would've been completed faster without me doing the other, but neither would be as good without the other. I had hoped to have the new Freeplay ready-to-go in time with the video's release, but I have been making some last minute changes to try and smooth off some of the rough edges (as any issues I found that didn't impact my progress with the video were often ignored) and finish converting my changelog into a decent bit of documentation on the changes (it will just be a plaintext file for now, as it would take much longer to properly incorporate everything into the html file I normally use). My aim now is to get it finalised and uploaded within the next few days.

Cheers!

It's always a joy to see a new Kaneda creation! Loved the stunts - those small gaps/landings were extremely satisfying (especially bumping back into the barn and slotting the infernus under the billboard), even further so thanks the fun edit that showcased them oh so nicely (the triple stoppie sequence was perfect). Capping it off with the beach sequence was awesome too. Nice work dude!

What a great little collab this was! A whole vid of just faggio stuff made to look effortless even though I'm sure it was anything but. So many clever combos and precision landings in there! Sport's mountain climb was a lovely surprise - I had no idea that was even possible - and the editing/music there gave it an almost eerie vibe, which fit well with me being taken aback by what was I was seeing. Max's consecutive grind combos were lovely as well, as was seeing Aries giving the faggio some packer-bump love.

Some nice camera work throughout also - I was quite fond of the selection of camera angles chosen for your stunt Ez at 1:10, I thought they showcased that spot really well. Also the camera work for ARS's roof-to-prec - the initial shot covering the air till the landing - I thought was quite nice.

Great stuff everyone, glad I had something I could contribute to it!
(Most of my attempts with that technique was done with the PCJ, so I am very happy that at one point I swapped over to the Faggio - thinking that it being lighter might make a difference - and got lucky with that ring landing. The glitch is fun to play around with, though you're just as likely to get a dud that goes nowhere, or the bike morphs underground.. but occasionally some cool weird flings can occur - I even had a pcj at one point reach the very top of the stadium, only to sadly explode/bounce back down off the side)