LVDell

Just picked up a new GoProHD camera and have a few questions.

1. For those of y'all that run with the GoProHD camera what video resolution settings are you using? Do you use R2 or R3? I'm not much of a video technophile so I don't understand what I would shoot 30fps versus 60fps.

2. Do you use the closed back or open back on the case? It says use the open for <100mph and closed for >100mph. However, we run speeds upwards of 160mph+

3. Anybody do test videos of different settings I could watch?

Thanks!

himself

I don't have the GoPro, but I always shoot 60FPS 720P at the track. It makes the motion look smoother, but low light looks worse to me.

-td

LVDell

So this may sound stupid but does 60fps actually mean that it is recording twice the number of frames as 30fps? If so, I'm guessing the reason to do 30fps would be for memory card size?

cfjan

Dell, are you mounting the camera inside or outside?

If you are mounting it inside, I'd assume you should use open back.. I have never tried mounting outside at 100mph+, so not sure.. but for autoX speed (mounting outside), I use open back..

I capture at 1080p, so I think that's R5?

cfjan

If you capture at 60fps, you can slow it down to do slow motion in good quality...

LVDell

That makes sense.

As far as the r5 setting. I don't see a reason to capture at r5 (1080p) since I am not viewing or burning the video in Bluray format and the file size is a killer.

ps. I tried a quick r5 video and my fairly new Mac (2 Ghz Intel Core 2 duo) will hiccup every once in a while when playing it back in full 1080p. I pulled it into iMovie and exported at a smaller res and it looks great with no playback hiccups.

Why do you capture at 1080p?

cfjan

I hear you.. I capture autoX video for the club here (Connecticut Valley Region).. since it is just autoX, so the videos are pretty short.

Storage also isn't too much of a problem, as I just upload them to YouTube. YouTube supports full HD, so this way it just gives the viewer a choice.. (they can choose from 1080 all the way down to 360)

996FLT6

Dell- don't u drive in a blur. ^no video will work for u : ). Mike. Ps- Lmk how your settings work out- I have mine for a year and haven't used it. Mike

himself

Memory is so cheap these days 30/60 FPS shouldn't make a difference. I get 2.5 hours on an 8G card. I usually put 1 day on a card because I always forget to turn the camera off and end up with an hour of the paddock.

-td

LVDell

I think my blur days are behind me. A little too much rust on this driver

I do sit in my car and make vroom vroom sounds while watching videos of days of old

Good to know as I have 8g cards. I'll do some testing this week.

Thanks for all the input

wapita

i used to use r5, but now I'm using r3.

inside car: i use spot metering and open back
outside: i use center weight and closed back

Mike76

I have this camera and in the GT3 mount it inside on the rolbar and have open back. In my clubman on slower tracks, I mount it outside with the open back and faster tracks or bad weather closed back. It is a great camera in terns of picture quality (I use R5 as I have a 16GB card). The big problem is the audio in open cockpits. It does not have a jack for an external mic which would help out. I am very happy overall with it though.

Mike

LVDell

Thanks Mike! Do you happen to have any videos (on vimeo, youtube, etc) I could watch to see?

Mike76

Dell,
This would have been with the open back:

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

Mike

LVDell

Thanks Mike, looks like a hoot drive!