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Looks like I missed the originals as well. Yeah adding music is a challenge to videos. Seems like all over youtube you have people complaining of music especially on automotive videos which is understandable. It's not just choice of music its having music period. Lets face it, most of us all want to hear the v8 in all its glory. The best way I found was to fade music out during areas you have good volume on the engine and fade music back in during stills or non running shots. It takes quite a bit of extra work though to do this timing but some music has nice effect vs nothing during these cuts. I don't even bother with famous or popular songs anymore because of all the copyright battles, not worth the hassle or the time spent timing beats to transitions in editing, only to have the copyright folks yank out the music.

Seems the GoPro cameras are getting more popular especially with the motorsports crowd. The only thing those cameras lack is a good microphone option. You really need an external microphone and a wombat type cover to get rid of wind noise while driving. Otherwise you can make some great movies. Hope more Pantera folk get into this because we need more good videos, they just help promote the cars. People are becoming more adept at video editing and production including lighting and taking it a step above basic home movie WYSIWYG type editing. Glad to see others trying their hand at this, really helps share our passion for these cars.