cannon1000

Just read up on settings. THere is a good GoPro HD Forum that discusses. But it looks like R3 is the best setting for inside the car. r5 you can get "jello" effect.

Use Center if you want to see the dash - but outside will be a little washed out.
Use Spot if you want to see the track - but your dash will be blacked out (can still see passengers fine).

I am trying to make the arm on the suction cup as short as possible to minimize bouncing.

cannon1000

Every once in a while I can hear the camera rattling on the recording. I cannot see how anything is moving inside. ANyone got any idea how to fix this? I thought it was the case hitting the windshield, but that is not it.

I read one post where someone put something over the shutter button.

Any ideas?

ltcjmramos

I've used the camera twice, over regular roadways. Little to no bounce over some pretty rough roads. Should be more than OK on a smooth track.

seanmcr6

^^^ ditto to what joe said

It should be making any noise either. Do you have the case closed properly? It so, it's air tight and should have anything rattling.

cannon1000

I use the open back. Yes it is closed properly...this happens on several of my vids...even my test run yesterday.

http://goprouser.freeforums.org/ok-m...tle-t2105.html

seanmcr6

Yeah, you are using that silicone widget thing right? I thought you were using the suction cup mount ?!

mjb

Anyone able to get the gopro to sync with a Traqmate? Traqmate doesn't seem to support the gopro very well. Not too crazy about a manual sync.

LVDell

Mike, do you use any overlay software? I use the Dashware product by AIM and sync GoPro and Traqmate very easily within the software.

SH || NC

.....but no videos have yet to be produced....

LVDell

Produced but not posted

Dudley

I had a similar sound on my recordings. I eliminated all the camera base extensions and tightened the last screw very hard. The noise (from creaking plastic) went away.

mjb

Dell, just doing a little investigation of the best camcorder to get that's nicely integrated with Traqmate. Would be nice to be able to auto-sync the camcorder, but Traqmate supports a LANC port for this capability. Unfortunately gopro does not. Seems only Sony products do at this time.

Have you had good results manually syncing the video and data overlay with Dashware?

LVDell

It's very easy and straightforward. But as Scott said, I haven't posted anything yet

re: lanc. All the lanc really does is start up the camera remotely. You will still have to upload the video file and the data file to an overlay program like Dashware anyway so there is really not an advantage to using a lanc based camera.

SH || NC

As a quick alternate option to the HDGP (I think the interface is the suck) the Contour HD is available at Amazon for ~$139; I'm going to give it a try for in-car driver footage.

mjb

Yup, I understand. The TraqmateHD module with the LANC output will turn the camera on/off; and rec/stop when it starts acquiring data, so basically auto-syncs the video and the data stream. Nice to have but not essential since there aren't too many of the new style action HD cameras that support LANC.

Anyway, Dashware looks like it has a lot of good features. Did you consider Traqstudio? I'm assuming Traqstudio would understand the Traqmate data format natively, where Dashware might require some reformatting of the Traqmate CSV file to get the data mapping right.

Looking forward to seeing those vids....