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I, like many others no doubt, cringe when I see myself appearing on home video footage. As a result of this natural reaction, I have never expressed a desire to film myself doing anything (whether that be in private or in public :p )\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\nSince I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ve started doing trackdays however, this attitude has chaged a little bit. There is a very high level of appeal to me (especially on those dark, cold and wet winter evenings, where the track day season feels so many, many months away), of being able to access a library of trackday memories. It\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s not a substitute for the real thing, but I can tell you what an excellent accompaniment it provides when inviting your trackday mates over for a fw beers and to mull over the forthcoming annual blats to South east Germany and various other outer reaches of the UK. \\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\nUntil recently, I had no ambition whatsoever for this digital film library to be anything other than a collection of entirely amateur, unpolished and unedited content. That was until, I realised the wonders of Windows Movie Maker :)  and unfortunately, the inordinate amount of time “…you seem to be wasting dear, on that computer” it takes to compile even the most brief of edited clips. What I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ve been waiting for, is a run of lear days at home, where I can shut myself in my batcave and merge the other side with some kind of Top-Gear esque moody clip of a trackday.\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\nMy séjour last year on gardening leave has provided me with the perfect opportunity. Firstly, how can I capture the video footage? Oh, I need a firewre cable and a firwire expresscard. OK, oh? What\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s this? 30 mins of footage is…..HOW BIG? 2.9Gb? You are kidding?\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\nDuring my gardening leave last year I found the time - switched on my laptop at about 8am, ran my daughter to nursery and set about editing one of over 30 hours of footage from Cadwell, to Silverstone, to Castle Combe, to the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’ring……This one was filmed at Mallory Park some years ago (when I used to own an Evo, in fact)\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\n