Video setup?

Jim Royal

Jim Royal

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I'd like to start recording my races with an in car camera. What are the options out there to get good steady video.
Thanks,
Jim Royal
Warren, Ohio
 
My two cents worth,
I used the "hero" camera at the Roebling double school.
Video plays great on my small TV, but the sound recording was
tewrrible.
No way to edit in camera, though.
I got great video of people passing me!!!
Carlos
 
So you would vouch for his stuff? I'm looking for something and just hate to ruin another camcorder. I'll have to study all that gear he has listed. Thanks for the point.
 
http://www.elmo.co.jp/suv-cam/en/index.html

<$900 street price for whole system

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spdmonkey said:
So you would vouch for his stuff? I'm looking for something and just hate to ruin another camcorder. I'll have to study all that gear he has listed. Thanks for the point.
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I have only purchased the quad processor from him. I was vouching more for the good customer service experience, really (which is so often at question on eBay!).

The quad processor I got was OK, but has some limitations, and I don't know that I'd recommend it to others; there's probably cheaper, just as effective ways to go. Not sure any of them would be better, the View-2 is still the best product for doing PIP in-car. Just too expensive for me!

But I wouldn't have reservations with the kits; they're functionally nearly identical to the stuff that I run and am very happy with, except that I use a very different recorder. But I would be happy with one of those recorders; they have displays, whereas mine does not!

Another key point on DVR's: some have internal memory, up to 80Gb, whereas others, the cheaper ones of course, use an external memory card like SD or CF. I'd rather use an external flash card, since that'll be solid state; the internal memory may be a micro-hard-drive (I'm not sure), which will be susceptible to vibration same as your camcorder. An added plus is the ease of downloading the video to the computer afterwards; just plug the card into a card reader and transfer the files - much quicker!
 
Exactly. I find a half-hour session (from start to end of recording, grid to pits) usually runs about half a Gb in MPEG4 format, 640x480 size. So a 4Gb card would handily work for a typical whole weekend...
 
Total cost of my setup was $250. $100 for the I/O Port mount, and $150 for a cheap Video camera. Can't start any lower unless you buy used. Camera quality is good enough to digitize, edit and burn movie DVD's. And you can get great effects when your crew does not fasten the camera down completely (looks just like the panning cameras they have in the NASCARs.
 
RacerBill said:
Total cost of my setup was $250. $100 for the I/O Port mount, and $150 for a cheap Video camera. Can't start any lower unless you buy used. Camera quality is good enough to digitize, edit and burn movie DVD's. And you can get great effects when your crew does not fasten the camera down completely (looks just like the panning cameras they have in the NASCARs.
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What kind of camera? miniDV?
 
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