Cedar Point Announces New Water Ride for 2010 Season

I worked on my false timelapse sequences some, stitched them all together, and added some fake camera motion... kinda fun at first, but it gets pretty tedious trying to fit new frames into the sequence after a while...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ3mkBXrYIU

jam said:
I worked on my false timelapse sequences some, stitched them all together, and added some fake camera motion... kinda fun at first, but it gets pretty tedious trying to fit new frames into the sequence after a while...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ3mkBXrYIU

Wow, just...wow!

That's pretty slick Jam.

~Rob

Thanks! The latest version of Picasa made it pretty easy... once you have a bunch of pictures captured, you can view all of the thumbnails and slide them around into some kind of order. Picasa will actually make the video for you, too. I took the videos from Picasa and then took it into After Effects to do the panning and zooming.

^That was amazing. Great Job! :)

Sorry to double post but for anyone who is looking for STR POV, click the link.

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/blog/2010/6/29/Ride_the_Rapids.cfm

That is pretty amazing Jam, I can't imagine the amount of time that had to take.

That's an awesome video! But as others have said, I can only imagine how much time that took. So props for that.

Very neat Jam! Love it! :)

I rode it by myself, 3 times in a row around 9:00 pm yesterday. I have to say, I was fairly impressed. It is a well-done ride by CP standards. And the view of the sunset while traveling up the first lift was fantastic.

Finally, a ride that's "friendlier" to us guests of larger girth, too!

(But hey, CP: for $10.5 million, couldn't you have heated the water in the evening?!!) ;-)

The new POV does verify how long the ride time is. It took 2:10 just to reach the first lift. It's gotta be the first POV I have actually skipped through a majority of...especially for the first time watching it. The ride moves so slow.

Yes, it is a long ride--but the slowness adds to the anticipation and enjoyment, I think. Plenty of fast rides (e.g. Snake River) around, IMO.

I couldn't find the "special theming" in the POV that everybody is talking about before the last hill. I'll be there tomorrow, but I'm afraid I'll miss it like Mike did. Can you atleast tell me where to look for it? :)

It will be on the left after you come out of the canyon and before the lift. Can't really miss it because the sound effects are blasting in the scene.

I didn't hear any sound effects. There were distant "booming" noises as we drifted through the canyon, but not anything that I recall right before the second lift.

Maybe the timing was off on your boat?

What are these special sound effects that we are talking about?

chris cp freak said:
What are these special sound effects that we are talking about?

After the canyon/rock work and before the second lift.

Hmmmm, is W-H-A-T a new spelling for WHERE? ;)

They won't tell you, they say you have to ride and find out. :(