Vid of easter ride

[discotex]

Decided I couldn't waste easter sunday so.....

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/20C315B901EF47249E97E3F3DCFBD3DB/567907/23-mar-2008-easter-fang-part.aspx">23 Mar 2008 - Easter fang part 1 - Heading North</a>

Something seems to be wrong with my speedo but I'm positive I didn't go over 102km/h at any point.

More to come once it finishes encoding and uploading.........

The link is better quality but for those that prefer embedded players :)

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[DingoZ]

Nice........ No traffic is a plus......:)

[discotex]

Nice........ No traffic is a plus......:)

You're telling me! :wari:

I've never had such a clear ride up there and when I came across cages they were just before passing spots :yes:

Part 2 and 3 are uploading now but at 50meg each they'll take a while. Even encoded with Xvid and mp3 they're still big files.

Part 4 and 5 will have to wait for another day. Have mocked them up but have to run them through virtualdub yet.

[discotex]

Uploads finished overnight...

23 Mar 2008 - Easter fang part 2 - Half way to somewhere (http://www.livevideo.com/video/7700772F8AC04B208AD02B84F81BFC87/23-mar-2008-easter-fang-part.aspx)

23 Mar 2008 - Easter fang part 3 - Give me an H for Helensville (http://www.livevideo.com/video/C58FD2747D0E4440903B5EFAD5E9AFDF/23-mar-2008-easter-fang-part.aspx)

[HornetBoy]

Looks like a bloody good ride then! with no traffic,

good choice of music to :Punk:

[discotex]

good choice of music to :Punk:

Thanks it just seemed to fit :)

Hope the respective bands don't mind a little copyright infringment.

Next part up 16 gets the Strokes :cool:

[Zuki Bandit]

Wicked video dude, makes me wanna get back out there!!!:2thumbsup

[TOTO]

Great videos Disco. Love that road. Such a shame that that 4WD was on the 35k corner on video 1 - that is my favourite corner and hate a car on it just whan I'm coming up.

Brilliant ride. i'm getting a cam too soon and will take some footage of my own :) What camera are you using ?

O and why dont you use YouTube ? Is this website better to use than YouTube ? Never done much video uploading myself.

[discotex]

Great videos Disco. Love that road. Such a shame that that 4WD was on the 35k corner on video 1 - that is my favourite corner and hate a car on it just whan I'm coming up.

Yeah dude killed me. Got a cage through there on the way back too :(

Still plenty of other corners out there.



Brilliant ride. i'm getting a cam too soon and will take some footage of my own :) What camera are you using ?

It's just a Sony DSC-W80 with a 4gig card. Nothing flash. Gets about 40mins of 640x480 video on it. Planning to get some trackday footage :soon:

The trick is getting a mount that works ok. I'm using a ram mount. Planning to shoot a vid of how it works tonight so will PM you the link.



O and why dont you use YouTube ? Is this website better to use than YouTube ? Never done much video uploading myself.

I will probably upload to my YouTube account as well. Just haven't got around to it. Livevideo is better quality I reckon plus it's way more of a community.

When you get started let me know as there's some tricks to getting the file size down and doing the speedo blur etc.

[TOTO]

Great disco, will wait for that link.

Will PM you when I get my cam, then we can go shooting each other. one on the back of one bike one on the front of the other :) should be fun :)

[zeocen]

LiveVideo is far better quality than Youtube, and has an already solid motorcycling video logging community. You can get away with using almost any video camera that does 25/30fps at less than 640x480, 320x240 can be fine too and gives you a lot more time to play with (if you have the batteries for it!).

I'm loving your vids by the way disco :P I love it when NZ vloggers stumble upon LV! It makes me feel less lonely :( We should catch up for a ride some time, would be quite interesting to see two honda's with helmet cam on one and tank cam on the other! (though you'd have to wait for me to catch up quite a lot hehe).

[discotex]

I'm loving your vids by the way disco :P I love it when NZ vloggers stumble upon LV! It makes me feel less lonely :( We should catch up for a ride some time, would be quite interesting to see two honda's with helmet cam on one and tank cam on the other! (though you'd have to wait for me to catch up quite a lot hehe).

Thanks mate :)

Been cool checking out yours since I found you on there as I don't go east/south much. Totally different parts of the city/country that I normally wouldn't see.

Agree we should go for a burn and get some footage. You can show me round the Hunua's :yes:

No way would I be waiting for you on the mighty bird. I'm not quick by any stretch of the imagination. If I kinda know a road sure but new roads I'm a nana - especially all those narrow ones with psycho corners and questionable surface like Twilight :pinch:

[shingo]

Great disco, will wait for that link.

Will PM you when I get my cam, then we can go shooting each other. one on the back of one bike one on the front of the other :) should be fun :)

Hit me up when you get your cam TOTO, i can't wait to become a movie star :cool:

[zeocen]

Agree we should go for a burn and get some footage. You can show me round the Hunua's :yes:

No way would I be waiting for you on the mighty bird. I'm not quick by any stretch of the imagination. If I kinda know a road sure but new roads I'm a nana - especially all those narrow ones with psycho corners and questionable surface like Twilight :pinch:

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.

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! :lol:)

[TOTO]

Hit me up when you get your cam TOTO, i can't wait to become a movie star :cool:


Its gonna happen :)

[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:

<div><embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/3607F0A4FA0840F292182120DAE77F3E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" WIDTH="445" HEIGHT="369" wmode="transparent"></embed><br/><a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/3607F0A4FA0840F292182120DAE77F3E/569973/using-a-ram-mount-to-attach-a-.aspx">Using a ram mount to attach a camera to your bike</a></div>

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! :lol:)

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 :lol:

[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)

<div><embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/4E892813106D4CEDBF620B2F177FDA3F" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" WIDTH="445" HEIGHT="369" wmode="transparent"></embed><br/><a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/4E892813106D4CEDBF620B2F177FDA3F/570386/cbr-to-maraetai-final-part-p.aspx">CBR to Maraetai Final Part - Preeeeeetty water.</a></div>

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. :rockon:

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 :)