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Its fake. A video game. I can see repeated spectators exactly at 13 seconds and why the heck would they allow a helicopter to fly so close to the track like that?
McLaren F1 car to go around Bathurst
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Wow, or you can just open your eyes and read post #3.
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The OP pretty much says it all :"I'm not a GT5 player....".
No problem with that, just wanted to point out that if you were a GT5 player, you'd know Mount Panorama is not included in the game, sadly.
No problem with that, just wanted to point out that if you were a GT5 player, you'd know Mount Panorama is not included in the game, sadly.
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Stop the video between the 13 second mark and look closely at the spectators on the right and you can see two people in different spots wearing the exact same clothes (yellow and black jacket or yellow jacket and black pants.
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Guys,
Yes, sorry, as I said i'm not a GT5 player, not really a sim/racing game player at all, I do it for real and this just doesn't look real to me.
It was suggsted, in the video comments I think, that it was GT5, hence I posted here, also posted on a more general forum.
I'll take a look at the video at 13secs. I know he DID drive an F1 car there and I watched that ABC footage BUT the onboard footage still doesn't look real to me. I dare say if you turned the saturation way up on the video and applied some fairly hefty smoothing is could be made to look like that?
Maxx
Yes, sorry, as I said i'm not a GT5 player, not really a sim/racing game player at all, I do it for real and this just doesn't look real to me.
It was suggsted, in the video comments I think, that it was GT5, hence I posted here, also posted on a more general forum.
I'll take a look at the video at 13secs. I know he DID drive an F1 car there and I watched that ABC footage BUT the onboard footage still doesn't look real to me. I dare say if you turned the saturation way up on the video and applied some fairly hefty smoothing is could be made to look like that?
Maxx
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- Bushby_23
This is 100% real. It was a promo for Vodafone, where they swapped drivers from their V8 supercar and F1 sponsored teams (Craig Lowndes, a regular Vodafone V8 supercar driver, got to drive the F1 car round, and vice versa for Jenson Button, current driver of the Vodafone F1 car). The video shown however, actually has Button driving, not Lowndes (for those who care, Lowndes was 1 second of Button's pace).
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See here too McLaren F1 car to go around Bathurst
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It looks like from a video game, but it isn't. 
Proof here:
Proof here:
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I see threads on here where I'm almost sure the sole purpose is to drum up interest in a product or generate more hits on a website or, cough, youtube video. Sadly it still works on me occasionally. I checked out the video. Actually really annoying these half-assed transparent "meme marketing" attempts, if that is what this is (especially since I fell for it).
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As soon as I posted I figured it was a marketing job. 👎
I have looked a bit more closely and see some things that lead me to think it is real. I've never disputed that it happened, just that the onboard 'looked' fake and could well have been. They could have had an onboard camera failure and replace it with game footage, a lot of folks think this is what happened re: the moon landing 'photo' anomolies.
It is most definitely 'heavilly' saturated and probably some heavy filtering to remove 'video noise'. It may be one of the new HD onboard cams they are using in F1 this year.
So, in summary, it probably isn't fake (i.e. game) but it certainly looks it.
I reckon if you removed the graphics, race line and the car imagine from this (i..e just have track graphics) it would look as realistic as the above if not more so (less saturation).
Maxx
It is most definitely 'heavilly' saturated and probably some heavy filtering to remove 'video noise'. It may be one of the new HD onboard cams they are using in F1 this year.
So, in summary, it probably isn't fake (i.e. game) but it certainly looks it.
I reckon if you removed the graphics, race line and the car imagine from this (i..e just have track graphics) it would look as realistic as the above if not more so (less saturation).
Maxx
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Not me mate, it was a serious question, I'm on O2 anyway
I posted my reaction on the video itself (as MaxxUK) and on a facebook post. It still looks more like a game to me but I can see how post processing may have made it so. I know what i'm talking about as I have been producing real-life onboard videos for years.
(Not a plug for my vids as i'd get more views in a week than I have accumulated in 4-5 years with one video of my setting light to someones fart)
Maxx
Lol this thread is hilarious. Only the sky looks fake, absolutely everything else looks real. Mountain textures, grass textures, grass textures, tree details - that sounds - just bloody everything looks better than even a Final Fantasy CG. You'd need a machine with more memory than a herd of elephants to be able to render this.
LOL what? I've seen helis fly closer in Top Gear.
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I must say tho, it does look like a video game.
This is the thumbnail you get when you embed the video, if thats looks real then you guys really do spend to much time in front of your monitors.
Also, pause the video anywhere and look at the graphics at the side, they looked painted. Now I'm pretty sure this is a combination of being oversaturated and having a video noise filter activbe which smooths out colour imperfection (which often is actually small detail that appears as video noise [i.e. leaves]
It seems no matter where you pause this video you get a very clear image and can read all the billboards .. wouldn't you agree?
Now look for any other F1 onboard and see if you can do the same thing.
It may not be 'fake' but it IS different.
Maxx
Also, pause the video anywhere and look at the graphics at the side, they looked painted. Now I'm pretty sure this is a combination of being oversaturated and having a video noise filter activbe which smooths out colour imperfection (which often is actually small detail that appears as video noise [i.e. leaves]
It seems no matter where you pause this video you get a very clear image and can read all the billboards .. wouldn't you agree?
Now look for any other F1 onboard and see if you can do the same thing.
It may not be 'fake' but it IS different.
Maxx
Thank You.
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I'm pretty sure what's confusing you is that the video is so heavily compressed that many of the details you would see are basically blurred-out, making it look a bit fake. This is pretty common in heavily-compressed internet video, especially when dealing with extremely fast motion (the more motion, the more data is needed to accurately represent it. Because you want to keep data-rates down for internet consumption, this means that often the effect of losing-detail occurs most noticeably in scenes with lots of movement.) I'm not saying that I know for sure it is real or if it is rendered, I'm just pointing out that many videos have this same "fakey" look about them due to video-compression.
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This. I can't believe people really are suggesting the video is fake. What would Vodafone achieve from making a fake on-board video? There's too many little details there which show that the video is obviously real, I think some of you may be spending too much time playing GT5. I also was at the track, in fact, drove around the track a few months ago and it's to me it's too spot-on for it to be fake.
