First time with a helmet cam

[honda_power]

Nice vid bro, I bought an Oregan Scientific camera a while ago with the intension of sticking it on my helmet for obvious reasons, however... the resulting video is very very shaky no matter were it is mounted. I guess you get what you pay for. Does anyone know of a way round the shakes or is it a technology anti shake thing.

Does anyone know the guy that video'd himself down at thunder (on youtube) and or what camera he was using.

Id like to get a descent helmet cam, but all in one ie records to 4gb card not to video camera that Im liable to squash. Thoughts anyone...

when i wsa at school i did film and tv there, had some budget left over, so the teacher bought a helmetcam. it was a "NZ Helmetcams" model. Pretty much bulletproof, awesome quality. a tiny lens to put on your helmet. the only downside was you had to carry a videocamera in a backpack. Quality was way better that any sd camera thing. i think they are around $600.

just wrap in shitloads of bubblewrap.

[noobi]

I have one of these for recording our riding, sits on top of my helmet etc, doesnt fall off, get lots of funny looks riding through the car park

http://www.vsport.com.au/gopro_camera/gopro_camera.php

[portokiwi]

Mate that was good footage

[flyingcr250]

I have one of these for recording our riding, sits on top of my helmet etc, doesnt fall off, get lots of funny looks riding through the car park

http://www.vsport.com.au/gopro_camera/gopro_camera.php

ive got one of these.

[oldskool]

ive got one of these.

That's awesome, hey if you have any good footage I'd like to try it out on my sim.
Guy's I'm pretty serious about this. Heres a link to a vid of my older version sim. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2cKjEnRlA
Supply me some footage and I'll motion cue the video up to the ride simulator and add force feedback impacts to the vest (another vid under same profile) if you can off.

[takitimu]

Okay, this time I set the focus mode correctly, there are two lots of footage, one HD, the other rescaled down to 640x360. Big thing is making sure the camera faces down more, the last 20 minutes were a writeoff as to skyward.

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HD

Mate that was good footage

Thanks

Good stuff. Hey I'd be quite keen on getting some XXX footage for my motion simulator once you got it all sussed. Format uncompressed at PAL res if poss but I'm not fussy as long as the footage is 'first person' high octane stuff. PM if you're keen and full credit to yah if the sim footage ever goes beyond DIY.

Interested, but all my footage is 60HZ 720p H.264 compressed, not to sure how it'll hold up blown up will try tonight.

Good little clip, I would edit out the little off, some say it wearing a camera is a Jinks,

It doesn't help, this week was better, I basically forgot I had it on, unfortunately the best footage would have been later in the day when I was not wearing it , so I'll skip the first few sessions & get the later ones next week.
What are you using for playout for PAL uncompressed, back in the day used to have a Abekas A60, but that is a few years back now.

[oldskool]

Interested, but all my footage is 60HZ 720p H.264 compressed, not to sure how it'll hold up blown up will try tonight.

NTSC mpeg4 format won't hold up for serious visual screening but should be okay for me to play with embedding a motion cue synch track so I can tune my motion chair to simulate a bikes snappy G forces. If you send me a copy of your original stuff I should be able to do a dirty PAL reformat.

I used to use a matrox rt2000 before computers got quick enough to do real time software rendering on the fly without the need for additional hardware cards. Most decent vid editing software supports realtime scrubbing nowadays. When I say uncompressed in reality theres still a compression factor of around 6:1 ...for a PC to cope.

[tommorth]

takitimu thats great footage I've gotta get up there for a ride sometime

[QUOTE=REDRIDER;1834807]Nice vid bro, I bought an Oregan Scientific camera a while ago with the intension of sticking it on my helmet for obvious reasons, however... the resulting video is very very shaky no matter were it is mounted. I guess you get what you pay for. Does anyone know of a way round the shakes or is it a technology anti shake thing

I've got one of those an at3k the footage is actually pretty good when mounted properly. Although not as good as takitimus . I made a mount from some ally plate and dowl ,cable tie it onto my helmet easy peasey can't feel it at all just have to point it the right way got an hour and a half of the trees last time I used it.