Your bike trail looks a lot like ours. I'll be riding on it in the next couple hours. I love sped-up videos:thumb:

Thanks, maybe I can get it right :)

Believe it or not we're pretty lucky around Cleveland of all places, we have an awesome network of trails/MUPs... (still wish I was in Cali...)

There's a new Contour camera due soon.

From the article:Camera shake is less visible on a wider angle shot. So this might be worth waiting for.


http://www.yourtechreport.com/wp-con...o-camera01.jpg

There are now "keychain cameras" as low as $10.

Here's a sample video from one. It has the wavy picture problem where the scene being filmed moves faster than the scan within one frame. Still, it's really cheap, and these will probably get better soon.

Taped to a motorcycle:


On a model plane:

ouch... have you tried flushing off the mud with water? that should flush away the mud without any harm... wiping would tend to grind it in.

That would be the best way, but I'd be doing that every few minutes on a muddy off-road ride, particularly if the camera's on the bike rather than the helmet.

On a related note, I'm trying out Adobe Premiere Elements' "stabilizer" filter. 3 hours left to render just the first clip, and that's with a Sandy Bridge i5 quad-core and 16GB of RAM... yikes :(

I'll try to find out and post back later. System is a bit busy at the moment :D

You know they have different versions of those, and the #3 being the best quality of them all. I think there are 9 different ones out. A lot of people out there are selling the crap versions.. if you go here http://www.themicrocamera.com/ they only sell the #3 and also have an HD version that just came out. I'll post video later today of mine.

get a small squirt-bottle. i've got a 100ml squirt bottle from an ambulance that was originally full of saline. something like that would be perfect.

How are you including the elevation, bearing and the other data?

[QUOTE=Shreck;12571510]I had the GroPro mounted on the front of my helmet just at the bottom edge, I used the head strap mount with the straps removed and fastened it with cable ties and some small foam bits behind to stabilize the mount. I found the helmet mount to be weird on top. On the front of the helmet you would not know its there, plus if you leave the bold loos enough you can swing it down to see if the light is on.

2:31 does that guy have an ipad mounted to his bike??

All the telemetry info superimposed on the video comes from my Garmin 500 cyclocomputer. Data is exported into a file which is read by an application I wrote which then generates telemetry footage. This footage is synced to, and superimposed on, the ride video. There is much more info on the GPS such as Heart Rate, Cadence, Power output, etc., which can also be displayed on the video but I chose to display mostly the non-personal stuff.

I'm also using a #3 keychain camera. I just decided that after 24,000 miles with no incidents, I couldn't justify spending much. 'Course, then last week I did have an incident, but it was in the near-dark and wouldn't have been captured on camera anyway.

I've been researching the GoPro and Contour as well as the Oregon Scientific ATC9K. My friend has a GoPro and has no problems. The video quality on the cameras are fairly similar, though the GoPro comes with the waterproof shell but you have to buy the Contour waterproof shell separately. I've noticed the codecs are both H.264 but the GoPro uses .mp4 container and Contour uses .mov. It's getting a bit technical - .mp4 has more tagging options than .mov - but I think at that point it's just personal preference.

http://www.idv.net.au/

just saw the link to these. Look very small and the waterproof case seems to be the right type.

I'm presuming that this camera is available elsewhere in the world

Of course they put @#$% music over the ENTIRE video, so potential customers can't evaluate the audio quality of the camera. That's a red flag to me.

I don't know why people feel that they have to put sound tracks over everything. Ah well, there's always the mute button.

A-freaking-men! I am SO SICK AND TIRED of the infatuation with putting music over every video nowadays. Life is not TV. Too many wannabe producers out there I guess:rolleyes:

I only use music when there's no other choice. Like when rain got in the mic hole of my "waterproof" camera during a rainy ride and made the audio sound like crap. Or the times I've made sped-up videos with Windows Movie Maker 2011, which mutes the audio when you speed up the video. Other than that, raw video rules!

Is this something you can point us too? I can parse XML but never played with GPX

Cant you just use this? Looks fun to play around with... :)

http://www.dashware.net/

Check out a similar app (open source) by VeryMAdMart:
http://sites.google.com/site/verymadmart/cyclecam

The download link gives a "Page not found" - thanks.

Works OK here. Firefox 4, Windows XP

I have been watching this thread for a while now and this past weekend decided to finally step into the world of video. While not a classic helmet cam, my new Samsung F50 will be light enough at 8 oz. to mount to my helmet and get better video than any of the budget cams (Veho MuVi and the like) out there. The main reason behind the purchase was my daughter's HS graduation, but for $130 I felt I could not go wrong hoping to use it on the helmet as well. Battery life is incredible, but there's really no point in taking video on a century, so a half hour commute will be just fine with a 1Gb card.

Found some cool helmet mounts on DX, but I think there is a use for some old tubes I have lying around as a means to affix the cam to my helmet securely. Still developing the plan.

Just a follow-up. I used this software to incorporate Garmin 705 stats into my video. Excuse the quality - it was recorded in HD but I had to dumb the quality down for uploading to YouTube, else it would have been hours to upload (DSL).

how would you protect it from rain or if you have a fall?

I think you underestimate how much 8 ounces is when strapped to a helmet.

It is waterproof to 5 ft, which will be plenty of coverage for just rain. It's pretty dry here, and if the rain does start falling, stow the camera.

I do not fall.

My helmet weighs 8 ounces, and it doesn't bother me as opposed to riding helmetless.

Make sure that whatever mount you use to put that on your helmet will break away if something hits the camera, otherwise hitting something with it could cause anything from neck injury to a crash.

My flashlight (~3oz) gets annoying sometimes. 8 would be really annoying.