Vid of easter ride

[DingoZ]

Any chance of getting a pic of your camera setup....?

Wanting to either design something for mine, or buy something direct. BUt not being technically minded, would like to see some different set ups to get an idea on what might work...

[zeocen]

Mine are more personal where I talk while I'm riding so it's not really a 'bike showcase' set up like discos, not practical, but here is disco's one:

Using a ram mount to attach a camera to your bike

A good setup, you can get the stuff he is talking about from www.ramsolutions.co.nz or Cycletreads website.

[DingoZ]

Cheers Zeocen, muchly appreciated...


Disco, was the stem mount hard to install or relatively easy...?

[EJK]

Your videos make me want to go back on the road again

[discotex]

We'll have to see on that one :P My cornering slows down considerably with the mediocre helmet cam, so maybe I should invest in the ramsolutions mount you have, keep the clutter out of my helmet.

Oh yeah I bet.. Must be a bit distracting having a camera in your face!

The only problem with the mounted version is a) recording voice and b) people can't see what you're talking about unless it's directly in front. Kinda sucks for the vlog stuff. I think a bullet cam is the ideal but they're not cheap and you need a separate recorder (flash based in your pocket is probably best).

I just have one question on it, how do you fasten it on the bolty thing on the yoke? Do you have to unscrew anything or does it just clamp on some how? I'm thinking of heading up to Cycletreads tomorrow to see what I can find (and perhaps a cup holder too, just so I can go through drive throughs and order combos! )

When you get it you get a tapered rubber pipe. You stick it down hole and then cut 1 inch of the rubber that fits down the hole. Then that top plate goes on one end, a bolt goes through the middle and a nut goes on the other. When you tighten the screw the rubber gets squeezed so it expands and grips.

You'll be wanting a flip top helmet for those combos... I'm sure you've seen the mess that mordeth made eating McD's in a full face helmet

[discotex]

Cheers Zeocen, muchly appreciated...


Disco, was the stem mount hard to install or relatively easy...?

Piss easy mate. All you need is half a brain, 15 mins, an allen key set, a pen, and a knife that can cut rubber.

The great thing is I can just leave the ball in the stem and it takes about 30sec to clip the cam on and point it out the front.

[biggerbud]

It always seems to look like ya going faster than you really are. My vid shows about 10km faster just cause of the angle I think.

I just loaded some on youtube and the quality is pretty poor compared with the original huh. Might try the site you use and see what they come out like.

I thought about using a mount like that ball one but I'm using a canon XL2 which is huge so I made a mount that bolts onto the gas filler ring. Can still fuel up ok and she's rock solid, except when ya go over cattle stops...lol...then that tank jumps a little.

[discotex]

It always seems to look like ya going faster than you really are. My vid shows about 10km faster just cause of the angle I think.

I think it actually shows a bit slower when I look at it with the speed. Depends on the scenery going by tho. Some bits seem faster but others slower. And yep wide angle makes it look faster than telephoto.

I just loaded some on youtube and the quality is pretty poor compared with the original huh. Might try the site you use and see what they come out like.

livevideo.com is way better quality. I export from Windows Movie Maker then run it through virtualdub to conver it to xvid so I can fit more time into the 100mb max file. It's a real trade-off between quality and length tho.

I thought about using a mount like that ball one but I'm using a canon XL2 which is huge so I made a mount that bolts onto the gas filler ring. Can still fuel up ok and she's rock solid, except when ya go over cattle stops...lol...then that tank jumps a little.

Hahah yeah I've seen that style too. Much better for a full handicam too. Think I'll upgrade to a decent bullet cam and flash recorder tho as they seem to get the best quality for the size. Can mount them anywhere too

Got some footage of the ride down SH22 today which I'll hopefully edit over the weekend and upload.

[biggerbud]

livevideo.com is way better quality. I export from Windows Movie Maker then run it through virtualdub to conver it to xvid so I can fit more time into the 100mb max file. It's a real trade-off between quality and length tho.

Hahah yeah I've seen that style too. Much better for a full handicam too. Think I'll upgrade to a decent bullet cam and flash recorder tho as they seem to get the best quality for the size. Can mount them anywhere too

With the Canon XL2 the original quality is very high but the files are huge DV avi files. I can reduce from the editor to almost any format except flv which I use Sorrensen for converting. Basically a 4 gig file down to about 80 meg which I then split in half which is about 7 to 10 mins per half. Using my own web based players the quality is still very high but with Youtube, and I've found, Live video, their conversion destroys the quaility. They must compress it even more.

[zeocen]

They do, livevideo recommends .mov's but I've tested and tested, re-tested and tested and decided that mpg is the best for my videos, especially after they finish encoding it on their side. Admittedly I have a prehistoric video camera that does 25fps, but even the kodak v750 (in-helmet vlogger cam of choice) that does 30fps is mostly encoded as mpgs. My videos look choppy because of the 25fps deal, but with the same compression with 30fps it looks amazingly better.

You also dont have to encode at 640x480, of course it helps but you can totally get away with a lower resolution and usually doubles your recording time, here's an example of a 25fps video (it looks crisp as anything and at something like, 480xSomething, I forget.. but then livevideo gets a hole of it and sodomises it to the quality you see, still better than youtube though, by miles)

CBR to Maraetai Final Part - Preeeeeetty water.

Will be good to go on a ride with discotex, helmet cam view on one bike and tank cam view on the other!

[musicman]

Youtube does full-screen. Livevideo does not.

Unless I'm making a fool of myself and there's actually a full-screen function that I'm overlooking?

Enjoying all the vids, makes me want to get some kind of cam to video my rides as well!

[TOTO]

I think I prefer stationary cam, the moving helmet cam makes me dizzy.

[discotex]

Enjoying all the vids, makes me want to get some kind of cam to video my rides as well!

Yep that's what got me hooked. Started watching RideYourRide and mordeth13 when I broke my shoulder and couldn't ride for a month or so. In fact it was last easter haha. So a year to get off my butt and start doing it