Victory (Gottlieb 1987) - Loading

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Ah, yes, 1987.  The heyday of Formula 1 as bloodsport, when cars were equipped with heavy machine guns to take out the competition.

You know, I had never noticed until I started working on this video that the machine guns were part of the table's theme.  It doesn't really have any effect on the game play, as far as I can tell.  But even if the guns are inconsequential, I've been looking for an excuse to learn how to use DaVinci Resolve's motion tracking capabilities, though, so this seemed like a good time to do so.

This video is made from the game's logo taken from the backglass and 1987 footage of Ayrton Senna  doing a practice lap in Monaco with an on board camera.   There is a gap in the footage just before the point where this video starts, so there isn't a lot of time to establish what's going on before the gunfire.  I used DaVinci's built-in motion tracking to make the explosion follow the path of the car.  I was very impressed with how easy this was to do, even with less-than-ideal footage.  I only had to make one small manual edit to the path.  I was also fortunate that the confines of the 9x16 screen ratio allowed me  to make sure the explosion was off screen before it got too weird-looking.  The music and the voice sample are taken from the game.  The machine gun and explosion sound effects are stock audio.