Some little videos from my new GoPro Camera

[sheeny (Al)]

I had a spare aluminium case with adjustable padded dividers in it that is now not spare any more. I bought 2 of them while they were cheap at Bunnings... just as well now.

Be wary about the perception of value Phil... I'm starting to. $30 here, $50 there...

Just for info, if anyone else damages their lens and decides to replace it... I found the other day that the focal position of the replacement lens I got is closer to the lens than the original genuine GoPro Lens. Its the same focal length but the focal plane is not in the same position. No biggie while its out of the housing, but in the housing at wide FOV I get a full circular vignette in photo mode and partial vignette each end of the frame on wide video.

All is OK at medium FOV though, it just means I can't make full use of the CCD when the camera is in the housing. So make sure you get a lens cap and use it!

Al.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Originally Posted by Al

Be wary about the perception of value Phil... I'm starting to. $30 here, $50 there...

I stopped counting $ after the first couple of add ons.

I do have the caps now thanks Al as well as a heap of other stuff I'll probably never use.

FWIW the Studio editing software that can be downloaded from GoPro works nicely on Win8.

A week or so ago, I did the W8.1 upgrade and that broke most of my video functionality (thanks Mr Gates and MS) including the Studio export to Mp4 feature. There will probably be an easy solution some time in the future but I couldn't find any solution that worked for my install so I reinstalled W8.0 from the recovery partition and now my GoPro is all Go again. I made a quick video on the mountain bike but unfortunately neglected to keep a copy when I re-imaged the HDD.

[sheeny (Al)]

I've just spent a day playing on the trials bikes with a mate, Phil. You would've enjoyed it!

I have heaps of footage to edit. That's the hard bit I find, cutting hours down to seconds. We did some experimenting with mounts. I think the pick of the mounts and camera positions we played with today were of course the helmet mount, and the RAM handlebar mount upside down and looking back at the RHS of the bike and brake foot (and where you've been) and also the chest mount. The chest mount turns out not too bad. You can get a bit of a perspective on the bars and hand controls while seeing the obstacles, and it tends to follow the line of the bike rather than where you're looking.

All good fun. A great way to spend a cool to cold cloudy day.

Al.

[acropolite (Phil)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3NbS6TM8k I really like the way they did this one. The perspective that the wand out front gives is good. I haven't really got my head around using Sony Vegas yet but the GoPro editing software is a doddle to use, very intuitive and quite powerful.

The thing that worries me is that one really isn't enough, the more the better....

[Ric]

Hi all, put my first GoPro movie on Youtube. Had a lot of fun with the editing software putting on some backing music and titles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vma9wtC95PU

For some reason, unknown to me Youtube saw fit to bung an ad in the beginning and default the quality setting to 144p. Just set the quality to 720p for clearer viewing and just shut the ad down.

PS: I'm no Spielberg , so any comments or ideas are welcome.

[sheeny (Al)]

I liked the counterbalanced swivelling camera mount on the helmet, Phil. What could possibly go wrong? But it effective! The long fixed wand on the helmet also seemed pretty stable relative to the helmet. I guess you don't have the vibrations on the pushie that you get on a motorbike, but I expected it to flex more then it did on jumps and things.

Good first video Ric. You like your right hand corners I see. Just a little bit of vibration induce swimming in the images (the centreline of the road flicking near the bottom of the picture is the biggest give away) but if you go to a helmet mount that'll disappear. BTW I think the download speed is detected to suit your internet connection. Mine started at 144p then jumped up to 360p.

Al.

[Ric]

Hi Al

At the moment I'm just running a standard handle bar mount off the Hi-rise bars with some rubber for extra padding.

At the moment I think the better half is going to buy me the Ram mount for Christmas.

Cheers