JS + XES

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its growing hair. isn't it weird?

CLtotheTL32

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I thought it was an animal you hit while driving fast for awesome videoz

Sarlacc

Has a couple different slang terms:

muff, blimp, wookie, windjammer

Its for outdoor use over a microphone to help filter out wind noise.

CLtotheTL32

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That's awesome. A bit strange looking but it serves it's purpose.

SharksBreath

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where'd you get that wookie? are you using it with the skelton back door?

here's another little video guys. nothing special. next one will be me and another car. gonna mount the camera on the car next to me and get some rolling footage from diff angles.

StreetKA

iTrader: (8)

Which housing are u guys using for outside or insdie the car recording and howdo u change it. I tried but i failed not wanting to break anything.

SharksBreath

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dude i felt the same way, thinking i was gonna break it. just pull straight down. it'll come out...but yeah, it is a weird design. i don't like seeing plastic flex like that...

i've only tried the skelton housing for the outside. i'm going to do the encased one for inside the vehicle.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Here's the hair shit. Order it! It works pretty well.

JS + XES

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I think you are supposed to use skeleton one for inside footage. Not totally sure.

JS + XES

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btw I need to wash my car so I can try this outside of car... I'm kinda scared to put it outside though. Would it hold in place well, even if I do a hard canyon run? What do you think?

SharksBreath

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^hell yeah it will. I went from 40-100 and it stayed put. the suction cup is stupid strong.

just clean the area before you mount it.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Nice nice. Thanks. Have you checked out the headrest mount that I linked in the previous page? I'm trying to DIY with beefed up post.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

One question, most of my in car videos have this rattle noise. My car itself doesn't rattle at all. Is there any quick fix for that? I think it's inside GoPro.

SharksBreath

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nah i haven't seen that, but i'll check it out.

i'm in the process of making a harness for my dog.

btw wheres the hair shit link?

JS + XES

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Yes.. I need to make one for my puppy too.

S14 n Tsx

no link?

fail

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

Another noob question.

So, I think I shot my vid with 720p. Just uploaded this first video and I can't view it as 720p. Is there any upload setting?

I've never uploaded anything on Youtube before.

JS + XES

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i'm so inefficient this morning

S14 n Tsx

You noob! It works fine... in the link, I can choose the quality..

btw, cute puppies. lol.

v6cord2k5

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I tried the suction cup mount on the inside of my car. Mounted it to glass and the thing fell off! No way in hell I'm mounting it to the outside of my car until I figure out what I did wrong!

SharksBreath

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copied from gopro site.

"Attach your GoPro camera with this industrial strength suction cup to cars, boats, motorcycles and more. Proven at speeds of 150+ mph. Strong enough to pull dents out of a car door (unfortunately tested and proven by GoPro) or stay attached to an airplane at 200mph+, proven though not endorsed by GoPro per FAA rules."

idk what you did wrong. clean the area you're mounting it to, put the suction cup in place, pull back the lever and press down the button. done.

you can see in my video, i got up to 100mph and the camera didn't even shake. it never shakes, thats why i like this thing so much...very stable.

JS + XES

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Huh? It's freaking strong once you mount it properly.

v6cord2k5

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Might have missed a button press there somewhere...

edit: okay I just tried it on a glass table top and I see the huge "PRESS" button. You actually press the button first though, since pressing it after lifting the lever seems impossibruh.

SharksBreath

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oh yeah, got the order mixed up.

now go try it on your car!

i mean, hell...people mount these things to the nose of their surfboards, snowboard, whatever.

civicdrivr

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Its ok, youre efficient 95% of the time. We'll just chalk this up to the remaining 5%

JS + XES

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ESP in my brain. Yeeeeaaaaaaa

SharksBreath

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quick vid of me walking my dog.

http://youtu.be/rrxgMZhCyXs" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/rrxgMZhCyXs

JS + XES

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OMG so cute!!!!!

give us some pics of the mount!

SharksBreath

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ahhh shit. i forgot.

mount is at home, and i'm back at work now.

i'll grab some tonight. it's not finished though, i need to find a way to make it more stable/less shakey when he walks.

Shoofin

It says to use the skeleton door if mounting on a car in the dry and for speeds under 100mph. If you're over 100mph, than they recommend putting the sealed door on.

I use the skeleton door for most applications right now..

neuronbob

Thanks for this thread. Ordering this week for car duty. I use a stickypod with an hd camcorder with SD card and the setup is just too wobbly; I think the camera is simply too heavy for this application. My vids are less than ideal as a result. Will therefore give this a shot.

neuronbob

I got my HD HERO2 Motorsports kit yesterday. I used my AmEx points to get it from Amazon so it cost me nothing. I also bought the head strap. I tried the camera, mounted to the head strap, in my first video. I found the picture quality "meh" compared to my Canon handheld HD camera. Then again, the darkness in the garage at the beginning of the video did not help that cause. It's better in the light, but picture details seem a little washed out. The sound quality is similarly "meh". However, the head strap mount means no vibration like in my other videos, so I'll take it. Tell me what you think....

My first GoPro video....note the use of my new S2T paddle shifters.

JS + XES

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My friend bought a gopro but he's decided to just sell it. It's brand new. He didn't even open the box. If anyone is interested in it, PM me. I was going to post it in the black market but wanted to give you guys about this first.

juniorbean

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Finally picked one up last week. Got it for $270, no card. But got a 16gig Class10 card for $20, so not bad. Two quick questions:

1) What are you guys using to edit? Like Shoofin, I found the GoPro software lacking when trying to edit the boring parts out of the video. I downloaded a free editor called Freemake Video Converter, which seems pretty good. Easy to trim and convert. Wasn't sure if there was a better option out there.

2) What kind of hardware are you guys editing on? My old laptop cannot process the 1080p videos, so had to reduce to 720p for now. I am due for a laptop anyway, and was thinking about an UltraBook. I'm guessing that would be sufficient for basic editing?

juniorbean

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Also, are you guys uploading large files to YouTube? I have a 10 minute video (720p) and it's almost 290mb...

civicdrivr

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I upload to YT. I dont know if its my computer or what, but if I add a title or description while its uploading, it will fail. So I let it upload completely then do the title/description/tags.

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

^ That's what I did. Just let it upload the whole thing, then messed with titles, descriptions, etc...

coykiam

Fiance bought me a GoPro Hero2 Outdoor edition, since I my intended purpose was for mountain biking. Now looking at suction cup mounts but at $29 for the GoPro mount, its giving me seconds thoughts. Any one use non GoPro/universal mount with the optional tripod camera mount?

SpiderX1016

It's $260 on Amazon right now. Was $250 last night. Tempting but I'm going to pass.

juniorbean

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I'll say this... Motorsports Edition came with the suction cup mount and that thing is fantastic. Great grip and "sticks" to pretty much anything.

I actually bought the roll bar mount for kart racing, but too much vibration passes through to the camera... so going to return that and just use the adhesive mount on my helmet...