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**meteor** · 7th May 2010, 16:13

Well had a wee play with the new camera. On a 12:30 minute ride to work at the higher 640X480 setting in the avi file format it chewed through 463mb. So... by my reckoning a gig will last around 25 mins on the highest setting. A 4 gb card will be perfect as the battery only lasts 1.5 hrs. Was attached to the handlebar so wasn't too jumpy at all. Sound was OK but got a bit of engine noise (obviously). All in all pretty happy with my $70 camera.

Now, can anyone tell me what the best/easiest software is to use to do the stitching together or the cutting of the avi files...

**Eddieb** · 7th May 2010, 16:19

Originally Posted by meteor

On a 12:30 minute ride to work at the higher 640X480 setting in the avi file format it chewed through 463mb. So... by my reckoning a gig will last around 25 mins on the highest setting. A 4 gb card will be perfect as the battery only lasts 1.5 hrs.

Now, can anyone tell me what the best/easiest software is to use to do the stitching together or the cutting of the avi files...

Sweet, data is about the same as my GoPro 5, 2gb lasts about an hour.

If you use windows then Microsoft Movie Maker is a free and easy way to start. It's built into Vista and maybe other versions or can be downloaded as part of the hotmail/Windows Live suite free from Microsoft.

**bogan** · 7th May 2010, 18:59

yeh just got mine also, should be sweet with a 1gig card will give half an hour, and can easily transfer to laptop if I needed more. Seems like a nice compact little unit, takes decent enough video, so as long as it lasts a while I'll be happy

**meteor** · 10th May 2010, 16:27

Actually finding the camera pretty good.. I managed to connect it to my sons helmet peak for his race on sunday... unfortunately he seems to ride with his head tilted forward a little so I've got about half an hour of really good video of the ground in front of his bike... buggar! but it's a pretty good picture of the ground LOL. I was right about the consumption of memory... 25 mins was 840 mg. So a 4 gb card is fine for the 1.5 hr battery. So the cheapo camera works fine... just the operator that need an upgrade!

**buggsubique** · 31st August 2010, 12:26

I got myself one of these last time and they are well worth the money. I have only made on decent vid yet, but you can see it here and see what the camera quality is like.

Highly recommended bit of kit - esp for the price. Buggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgip5JXKpA

**Taz** · 31st August 2010, 13:34

Grabbed one.

**dino3310** · 31st August 2010, 14:15

Originally Posted by Anthrax

Grabbed one.

KTM, Vid Cam - next will be a GPS ya yuppy

**DangerMice** · 31st August 2010, 14:50

Do they take MicroSDHC cards, or just MicroSD?

**Jonno.** · 31st August 2010, 15:45

Thank God for father's day

**buggsubique** · 31st August 2010, 16:52

Originally Posted by DangerMice

Do they take MicroSDHC cards, or just MicroSD?

Sorry dunno about the HC cards... I jsut picked up an 8 gig micro SD off trademe dor 30-40 bucks and it's fine...

Downloading from the camera is painfully slow though so if you have a card reader then all the betterer.

**DR650gary** · 31st August 2010, 18:06

Or this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-DV-Spy-cam-...item19bd26b3fd

**NordieBoy** · 31st August 2010, 19:48

Originally Posted by buggsubique

Sorry dunno about the HC cards... I jsut picked up an 8 gig micro SD off trademe dor 30-40 bucks and it's fine...

Downloading from the camera is painfully slow though so if you have a card reader then all the betterer.

Anything over 2gb is basically HC.

**DangerMice** · 31st August 2010, 20:44

cool thanks

**DangerMice** · 31st August 2010, 20:49

Originally Posted by meteor

Now, can anyone tell me what the best/easiest software is to use to do the stitching together or the cutting of the avi files...

any video converter is a good program. It can convert a lot of different formats to a lot of other different formats. You can crop clips and merge several clips into 1 clip. You can even use it to dowload YouTube clips. It's free.