i just got one of these too i wanted to use it in conjunction with my miniDV but i dont know how i'm going to aim it somewhere else

 

Great video content and driving! Video quality is so, so ... how much was lost with all the different conversions?

 

I find the video quality basically as good as decent,mid to high price camcorder DV. ease of use is the bomb, no downloading, u can pop card in CF reader and review video immeadiately.

go to http://www.chasecam.com/forum/ for good info, also,you can buy one and return if you don't like it.

the video looks crappy due to the compession from youtube, and i compressed it to fit the 100mb youtube limit

the quality is adjustable on the unit, but MOST important is totally dependent on the speed of the CF card, slow cards can't keep up with higher settings. i got a great deal on 4gb 120x card($59.00) which is 4 hrs recording time on regular mode which is good enuff for me. i want to get a superfast(CF extreme) card in future, if possible

also, its dependent on the camera, i'm using the highest res 512 line cameras, but it will still look good on 380 and 480 cams

 

Thank you. I'm currently using the 512 line bullet from chasecam connected to a mini-dv camcorder for recording. I'll take another look at the chasecam recorder.

 

10-20k a year on racing? wow if you're rich maybe. I plan to use a cam on the track and anywhere else where things get interesting. Chasecam looks ok, I was hoping to get a little better quality tho. sphinkter you have any links that shows the footage of higher quality? tx all shock.

 

[QUOTE=jlucas,Jan 31 2007, 04:34 AM] I'm looking into the ChaseCam PDR right now both for myself and for potential future stocking.

 

I have the 120X card that I bought directly from them, and I'm talking aboout the highest data rate. It just doesn't quite keep up with stuff moving through the field of view quickly enough.

I'm not talking about dropped frames, I'm talking about digital scanning artifacts.

 

I have a bullet camera hose-clamped to my rearview mirror base and another one pointed at me in the cockpit. Both feed to a padded-up DV camera used for recording through a View-2.com picture-in-picture box.

The picture-in-picture box means I don't have to do any post-processing. But I've also started experimenting with cutting in rear-pointed footage from one of those ATC-2000 helmet cameras. The bad news is that the helmet camera has been getting too much vibration on the back wing upright, so the quality of the inserted shots is pretty terrible.

Here's PART ONE of a full session at Willow. (And if you get caught up in the action and want to see if I can get down below 1:30, here's PART TWO.)

 

do you have latest firmware? that may help with recording on high setting and maybe in the future.

My card won't record at highest video quality, but i am OK with the quality at normal record mode.

 

I certainly assume so, since the unit was shipped from them about two weeks ago.

It turns out that the cluster size of the card has an effect on how fast the unit will record. It was shipped with one that was quite a bit bigger than the standard size.

When I reformatted the card, it started dropping frames. However, I figured out how to format it to the larger cluster size, and it once again recorded at the highest data rate. The downside is that all files (including directories) take up a larger minimum space on the drive, but since there are likely to be few/large files instead of many/small files, that's not a big issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...t.mspx?mfr=true

Try one of the higher cluster sizes. 4K is too small.