Race Day: Sundown Marathon 2014
Channel: Running Number
Date: 01/06/2014

Sundown Marathon was held late night on Saturday 31 May 2014 at the F1 Pit. The gun time for half marathon distance was at 12:30am, shortly after midnight into the first day of June.

It was said that there were more than 30,000 participants in this year's Sundown. The HM has the biggest group of runners. 

The weather was rather hot and humid for midnight. It started to drizzle quite a bit around 2am when I was climbing up the Shears Bridge at 15km mark. You can see the drenched camera lens at 3:32 in this video.

This is my second race video shot entirely using Sony Action Cam HDR-AS30V. As mentioned previously in http://youtu.be/b8jQgus9A88 the biggest advantage of Action Cam has been the SteadyShot. 

The ActionCam was mounted on iStabilizer Monopod, which is extendable to over 3 feet. It was almost impossible to achieve any steady shot manually with the setup. However, with the help of SteadyShot built into ActionCam, all the rushes actually are rather watchable. As such I can cut down the long processing time for shot stabalisation during post production. The editing process took me under 4 hours, including final rendering and upload to Youtube. The SteadyShot feature is truly a great time saver.

Please note that there were some issues in the video rendered by iMovie (started from 0:28 till 0:32) which is not related to the quality of ActionCam

Kudos to Sony, kudos to ActionCam

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