Film Testing Priority October 2024

Phil70 said:

I feel there are solutions if they look for them, Im willing to bet a lot of money that there is a sizable % of customers that only ride an Ebike outside. I bet half the customer base avoid our mountains like the plague. 

To me accuracy of the simulation is always the priority, but if the entire customer base could enjoy all of the rides in all of the locations & terrain..we can produce more of them :-)

Yeah I agree fully.
Excellent point that maybe more can be filmed when there is more interest from a wider audience.

Phil70 said:

Too add a final thought, nothing will change Peter

Haha, change is good. Even better when a company is willing to listen to feedback and interact with their audience. Nowadays that's hard to accomplish for companies when everything needs to be 'more efficient'.

druidh said:

Perhaps the recording speed needs to be mentioned somewhere in the route description. I too dislike those filmed from cars as the...world...just...moves...too... slowly.

EU films made in the last 9 years are all filmed on Bertha, anything older & most of those filmed outside EU are from a car. The ones filmed from a bike in Asia are on opposite ends of the spectrum, filmed much slower than I would film here.  

Your right that there could be more done to inform the customers how these rides were made, you should put a post in the feature requests thread. I doubt anyone from Tacx/Garmin reads in here & Ive long since lost even the vaguest hint of influence on this App simulation. 

Waiting for v5 Grand Mesa Scenic Byway (Colorado). Today rode:

v1 048_Whitney Portal (California)
Morning's weight is 64.9 kg. Average power - 2.56 W/kg.

A good, long climb.

The road markings clearly show that I have a low frame rate. It's certainly worse than Phil's footage, but it's still good for training. Yes, I'd like to have 60 fps at 3 W/kg. And I'd like to know in advance what the video rate will be at 3 W/kg.

The gradient matches the video almost everywhere, but after 6.1-6.2 km from the start, I would start the high gradient 100-150 meters earlier and finish 300 meters earlier. Because the section of the road with the high gradient has visually ended, but the screen still shows the high gradient.

P.S. Sometimes I might make a video of the beautiful Altai road from Ust-Sema to Kosh-Agach. It's 400 km of beautiful road in one direction. You can look it at Google maps.

v5 084 Sherman Pass 2 (California)
Longgg climb again. I liked this one a bit better compare to Grand Mesa. Probably because my speed was slightly higher and there was almost no traffic or movement from nature caused by wind (like falling leaves). This kind of hides the lower fps I guess. Or maybe this was filmed at lower speed, who knows...
The gradients felt ok but still a lot of times I had the feeling; hey this doesn't visually look like 5%, but it was not so noticeably like on Grand Mesa.

Didn't notice any weirdness that should be fixed.

v2 084_Sherman Pass 1 (California)

100/100% Morning's weight is 65.7 kg. Average power - 2.37 W/kg.

Video - normal. Low frame rate, but that my speed is low.

Gradient also normal. 

Second day no information about the movies in Garmin Connect

v5 084 Sherman Pass 2 (California)

Trainer Diff. Modifier (TDM) - 100% (how long now) / Road Feel Intensity (RFI) - 100%. Morning's weight is 65.5 kg. Average power - 2.41 W/kg. But TSS - 185.72. 

All - OK. Video is normal. Gradient also is normal.