marchyman
Cam Killer
Loved this ride. Gotta know what camera you used - the video was good, but the audio was about the best I've heard on a motorcycle.
I downloaded it in HD, which takes a half hour when you have Internet stuck in you by Time Warner. Then, played it on the HDTV across the room, and it was terrific. It had me leaning into the turns with you. Sound was great, color looked realistic, not 'blown-out.'
This is the kind of video I'd like to be able to shoot, without a bunch of fuss and setup. Just leave the camera mount on my helmet, and click it in place before a good ride.
Please let me know the make/model you used.
Jim, I cheat. A lot. The video is from two cameras plus an external portable stereo recorder for the audio. The camera on the helmet is an older Contour HD. It maxes out at 720p... I record in its highest quality (default is mid quality) then upres it to 1080p before editing. The audio from that camera is atrocious and was tossed. The second camera is a Drift Stealth HD. When the newer smaller Drift went on sale a month or three ago Amazon discounted the now old stealth model to under $200. It shoots 1080p. The audio is better than the Contour, but still not all that great. The audio recorder is the Zoom H1. Not as good as the H4n, but at less than 1/3 the price (about $85 if you look around) good enough. I added a wind sock then stuck the recorder between tank bag and map case, facing me. I reversed the left and right channels in post processing.
The setup looks like this... the fuzzy thing is the wind sock over the recorder.
There wasn't much fuss to take the video. Turn camera 1 on, hit record. Turn camera 2 on, hit record. Turn recorder on, hit record. Take ride. The fuss comes after when I ingest the video and audio, upres the video from the Contour, sync the two cameras and audio, then start editing. The video from the bike mounted camera is close to unusable when the bike is idling and at low speeds in 1st gear. Too much bouncing around. The helmet mounted camera lets me fill in where I can't use the better video from the other camera. That three minutes was extracted from the first half of about 40 minutes worth of video. The audio is about 80% from the Zoom and about 20 % from the Drift. Post processing was done on a Mac using Final Cut Pro X.
Enough video geeking out. Since this is the video thread let me end with a video... it starts where the last video left off.
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