Manawatu weekend rides

**Elysium** · 9th August 2009, 20:39

Yep even Cowboyz was grinning when he had a sit on the Honda.

**mowgli** · 9th August 2009, 20:51

Had a play with the FlyCamOne2 this afternoon. The attached photos show the camera mounted and the power supply I had to bodge since the built-in battery seems to be shot. The small switch on the corner of the supply starts and stops recording. It was a real duct tape affair but worked nonetheless.

Unfortunately USB1.0 + P1600 + crappy upload speed means I can't share it with you right now

**Elysium** · 9th August 2009, 20:58

It does kinda make your bike all nerdy looking

Well I could be jelious as I have no cam.

**mowgli** · 9th August 2009, 21:06

Yeah, fair call. The power supply should be in a box and concealed beside the speedo. Black Danko tape would make a big difference. It worked better than expected for a first attempt.

**cowboyz** · 9th August 2009, 21:15

nice . where is the recording from?

**mowgli** · 9th August 2009, 21:19

The vid's from Turitea Valley Road but it was gonna take over an hour to upload and the interweb ground to a crawl.

**cowboyz** · 9th August 2009, 21:37

If you DivX it it will drop the filesize dramatically and youtube (if your not using HD) is crappy enough quality not to be able to tell the difference.

Hour upload seems pretty quick though.. takes me about 2.5 to upload 10 mins. which is about 60Meg DivX'd

**mowgli** · 9th August 2009, 21:45

What app do you use to do the conversion and is it free?

**cowboyz** · 9th August 2009, 21:51

I use womble DVD editing. It is a commercial program but for bike vids I tend to just throw it through and cut out the boring bits and add a bit o text here and there. Its awesome if you want to get really into the edits though

**mowgli** · 9th August 2009, 22:18

Nice one. I've used VirtualDub to strip the audio and re-encode as DivX5.2.1 for a about a 85% reduction in filesize. Uploading now. Should take about 20min.