Paekakariki Hill Road - Caught on Camera

[madboy]

Raced the saddle road in a rally car, but never been near it on a bike. Looks like I need to now I think

Both vids were pretty impressive. What amazes me about seeing footage on camera is that you think you're pussy footing around, relatively upright, nothing too dramatic looking... then you see it on camera and you realise you actually look like you're moving and the lean angle is impressive!! Bonus points awarded to the participants for no crash footage as well!!

Then you see someone infinitely better than you doing the same thing and your insecurities return...

[GSVR]

Garry, how'd you keep the wind noise off the recording? Was the camera just sitting in the right place for the wind to get deflected off the screen and above the camera?
Yea, that saddle road is a good one!

The camera was placed in a holder and held to my chest with very strong magnets for out of a computer hard drive MR head. The Mic on this thing is just a small hole and it was almost covered up with the sponge from the holder.

First attempt I had at filming all I got was my tank as I leaned forward riding so had to point the camera upwards a bit to compensate.

It was very wet here after work today but I'm keen to have another go soon.
My favorite section of the Pahiatua Track this time maybe.

[GSXR1000]

Went out today with my camera that records movies stuck to my chest.
Heres a small clip. Do you think the quality vs size is ok?

What is the biggest movie file you can upload to the site? I'd like to see more people posting their movies just so you can get an idea of roads.

The camera saves in an MJPEG format and when you edit and save it the file actually comes out bigger in Mpeg format. More frames per sec or something. That why I'm trying wmv. Maybee if I just post the unedited file from the camera but then I picking people might not have the codec to make it work. I have a Matrox card that uses this format.

Any suggestions appreciated.

great vid mate
but tell me how did you get the file size down so much and keep the quality??????
I'm having trouble with size and quality....


cheers

Graeme

[Kendog]

Very nice video, good work

Nice CBR as well

[GSVR]

great vid mate
but tell me how did you get the file size down so much and keep the quality??????
I'm having trouble with size and quality....
cheers
Graeme

Well the resolution it shot in is 160x120 pixels and it was saved in video for broadband NTSC at at 384 kbps. Plus its only 25 secs long.

I thought the quality was not that good compared to the original file but mjpeg's won't play on alot of peoples PC's (I think). Next time I'm shooting at 320x240 pixels.

Mjpeg's have each frame seperately compressed like a series of JPG's but DIVX and other formats compress the movie as a whole comparing frames and carring over information like what pixels stay the same between frames.(so I believe)

Hope this helps.