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ah! thank you!

 

I use R3. I think 720p is more than enough and I like having the flexibility of 60fps in case I wanna slow something down. I always have at least two mounted in my car. One inside on the rollbar and one outside either on the bumper, on the windshield or on the door. This is from my last event at NJMP Lightning. I love GoPros, I'm trying to figure out where to mount it next to get a footwell view so I can watch my awesome heel toe action...LoL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UND8mS0rSxM

 

I use the suction a lot and have never had it fall off. Clean, dry surface which is flat enough. The most extreme curvature I have had it on was the rear bumper and it did not fall off. Suction Cup Tip - Be weary of temp difference between your surface and the suction. Also avoid attaching it in the morning, allowing the temps to rise nearer midday then going out for a blast having not re-attached it. The air in the suction cup will expand as temperature rises or condense with lower temps which will affect the level of suction.

If you are concerned about it falling off or think you are going to put it under a lot of stress tat might encourage it to go bye-bye, run a lasso from the camera to inside the cabin/in-between a door jam/boot lid and seal etc. Use a material which is not going to scratch up your paint though!

Here was a quick and dirty bumper suction attached clip for exhaust, no chance it was falling off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WHcYDt3_w

My GoPro also has some kind of internal rattle that comes out on the audio quite badly. I have stripped it down as far as I can and cannot find the source. Got as far as the 2 PCBs which are connected and could not work out how to separate them so gave up.

 

Very useful post, thanks man! I've been debating when I'm going to use more than 720p myself. My current use of the R4 has very limited utility, so I think I'm going to try R3 and R5.
On a side note, after watching your vid, I really couldn't read the dash display (perhaps it was youtube's compression?). And honestly, everything was very washed out from the in-cabin view. Are you using the spot metering function (if not, you may find a huge benefit).

BTW, which program are you using to do picture in picture? Anything that's shareware (so a cheap-o like me can use it for free) ?

 

I've got a ContourHD (it was on Amazon gold for $180). Sound is horrific, but picture is pretty good. Form factor lends it to less wind buffeting when used with the Modifry windscreen mount (highly recommend!).

I see a few people looking for good editing tools. I use VirtualDub with AviSynth. Grab MVTools for AviSynth and you can do slow motion pretty well. I film all my drives to/from work (and delete 99.99999% immediately due to lack of anything interesting), so I've got a lot of practice with different settings. The sensors on the GoPro and Contour are reasonably similar. I typically shoot @ 720p 60fps. This helps reduce the wobble from the rolling shutter and as a bonus, if you need to slow the footage down, you can go at half speed without any difference in framerate when uploaded to YouTube.
When filming at night, skip the high speed and just use whichever 30fps setting gets you a viewing angle between 120 and 140 degrees. When mounted on the secret compartment this should cover from edge to edge of the windshield.
Contour is 135 (@720) and I get coverage from the edge of one side mirror to the other, when in 1080, I get 110 and it gets just inside the edges of the windshield. If you want to see your shifting, you'll need at least 120, and probably need a light in the footwell (particularly during the day).

If you've mounted to the secret compartment and you're getting rattle, it may not be your mount. The latch is not exactly super tight on the compartment. Add some rubber stops (the kind you get for cabinets, $2 @ walmart/target/hardware store) to reduce the vibration.

Always getting a view that's a little skewed? But a stick on level ($2-10 online...just google stick on level). Start with a level camera, make small adjustments and note where the bubble is. Mark your level when the view looks correct. On most mounts, the best view is when the camera is level, but it's not always the case!

Hope all this helped someone out!

 

Steve, R3 is too wide IMO. I can't tell what's happening outside on your in-cabin view and the outside view's wide angle makes it hard to judge distance.

I use R5 not for 1080p but for the narrower view. I really wish GoPro made a normal angle HD camera.

 

http://vimeo.com/26993560

this is my best friend and his mom

 

cant wait to get one. soon

 

I'm using Sony Vegas to do the picture in picture (using the incar audio and removing all other audio streams). I normally use spot meter when using the inside camera so I can see outside but recently I've switched to the normal mode. I don't really care what the video sees through the windshield since I already have a camera outside showing the outside view though I do switch to spot if I am only using one camera. I use the inside camera primarily to see how my steering inputs are and where I shifted, etc which is why I want one by the footwell to see what my feet are doing as well. I don't really worry about trying to capture the dash since I plan on eventually getting traqmate to get some real data anyway. I don't even look at the dash when I'm driving so I didn't see a reason why I'd care when watching the video. I have the modifry shift beeper and that's enough to tell me that I was shifting at the right time or not. As for the in between RPMs, I know my car well enough to tell around what RPM I'm at based on audio alone. From there I can pretty much determine how fast I was going.

Clyde, as for the super wide from outside, I agree it's hard to judge distance by it but I am mostly using that to see if I took the proper line. I also just like to see the surrounding space which I don't get to enjoy as much when I'm driving. The wide angle lets you kinda "look ahead" through a turn.

My biggest reason for 720p is to keep the file sizes in check and more manageable to video edit later coz sometimes I'm processing 4 video clips at the same time do side by side run comparisons and even though I have a super beefy computer, it really makes it work hard.

 

...and this is with the rather useless but cool looking bumper view and the incar set to spot metering. Notice how you can now see out of the car from inside just fine but you loose all the interior details on a sunny day..but I can still see my hands which for me is good enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDT2u7Ez87o