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Seems like an impressive skill to me (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

For the movie Grand Prix (1967), they put microphones inside of each car's engine, so that they would get the distinct sound of each just right. They also recorded the sounds of the upshifts and downshifts of each car while driving the Monaco Grand Prix course, and then the professional drivers recreated the dozens of shifts in sequence from memory on a runway to make sure they got clean audio of the entire race.

Honestly, if you look at how that movie was made, I'm not convinced that they should have been allowed to make it... but I'm glad that they did, because it's an astonishing technical achievement.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    TBF one learns the shifting sequences for any track pretty easily in sim racing. I judge how well I'm doing on a particular lap by whether I'm shifting later than usual.

    I have more trouble imagining them doing braking accurately, as presumably they'd need to record that too, and it's typically done from visual references. Also they'd need 3.2 km of straight runway to avoid them having to do actual turns — might've had to use salt flats or somesuch.

    P.S. That movie is also a great example of how a decent 70mm film is still a splendid source for ‘hd’ video and will probably be re-digitized decades from now into new ‘100k’ formats.

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