|   Any advice on filming my rides? | PedalPimp
Feb 26, 2003 2:47 PM | | I just got the idea to start filming my rides. It would just be for fun not production so nothing fancy. What all would I need? What brands are good? Are helmet cams any good? Any suggestions or reccomendations are welcome. I have a pretty powerful mac but no editing software (that I know of). Any reccomendations on software would also be helpful. How much start up dough am I looking at? I know nothing about this stuff. Thanks in advance, assuming I get any responses. |
| iMovie is a free download from Apple's site.... | AndyH
Feb 26, 2003 3:00 PM | | http://www.apple.com/imovie/download/
It is an 81.8MB download, so I hope you have broadband ;-)
If your Mac is fairly new, it may even have iMovie pre-loaded from the factory (not 100% sure), so double-check your applications folder before you download.
Viosport sells a helmet-mount camera:
http://shop.viosport.com/store/customer/search.php
You'll need a video camera as well. |
| re: Any advice on filming my rides? | uzzi'srus
Feb 26, 2003 7:15 PM | | I use a helmet cam I got from sportzshot, http://www.sportzshot.com/ With a sony DCR PC 120 mini dv camcorder. The helmet cam works great. I got the sportzshot instead of the others because it has sony internals and a NiMH battery. It cost a little more than the viosport setup but I think its worth it.
THe NiMH battery makes a huge difference. One of my friends has a viosport cam that uses AA batteries and he has had his either run down during filming or be dead when he turns it on several times. My battery runs my camera and mic for over 6 hours per charge.
Of the three big helmet camera outfits selling camera packages I would rate sportzshot 1st then helmetcamera.com 2nd and viosports package 3rd
I'm probably gonna sell my helmet cam this spring and get one of the mounts from thinkhelmets.com to mount my camcorder directly to my helmet to get better quality video.
The guy from helmetcamera.com usually has one or two on ebay for less than you can buy directly from his site.
Also check out this guys site he has a lot of info about helmet cameras. http://www.petefagerlin.com/The_Hub.htm
FYI you will probably be a little disappointed when you first see your video, it looks like everything is run through a wuss filter because you lose a lot of perspective
hope this helps |
| re: Any advice on filming my rides? | Steve Wolf
Feb 26, 2003 7:20 PM | | See my "video how to" section and PowerPoint slides.
http://arnica.csustan.edu/mtbike |
| re: Any advice on filming my rides? | Hack
Feb 26, 2003 8:33 PM | | iMovie is pretty darn good. Actually excellent considering it's free. (Very simple to edit with) You would need a Mac that's running OS X (I'm not sure if the newest version of iMovie works with 9.2) and has a firewire port. You'd also need a camera that has firewire out to use your mac with iMovie. I use a Panasonic PalmSight that uses MiniDV tape. Excellent picture. Paid about $600 a couple years ago.
Can't help with the helmet cam.
Keep in mind video uses up lots of storage on the computer. If you are gonna get serious and work on longer length projects you'd probably need a large external firewire drive as well.
Good luck. |
| Thanks for all your help. (nm) | PedalPimp
Feb 27, 2003 6:56 AM | | |
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Feb 27, 2003 8:14 AM | | www.pedalmasher.com |
| items needed for video taping | ced
Feb 27, 2003 8:28 AM | | Items needed and relative costs include:
- video camera, usually minidv these days ($300-$
1500),
-computer, need a large harddrive and the more ram the better, will also need a usb or firewire port for capturing,
-editing software, adobe premiere and pinnacle both make excellent software ($100-$150),
Optional items:
-helmet cam, ($250-$400)
As you can see the idea of video capturing can get expensive real quick. Much more so than capturing stills of the mtb action. The learning curve on the editing software can also be rather long if you do not have a friend already into it. And as far as the quality of the finished product, your computer will probably be the limiting factor. It is easy to have many dropped frames and other glitches due to the capabilities of the computer. Even with all these obstacles, I think video capturing and the end movie product is well worth it. Hope this was some help. |
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