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Offline T_J_G

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #20 on: 18 February 2010, 20:42 »
May invest in one of these actually may come in handy one day.
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Offline Paul86S2

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #21 on: 18 February 2010, 22:13 »
Are you sure its a camera and not a time machine - I felt I was transported back to Feb 2008 :laugh:

Can't believe you was beaten by the truck in the vid :grin:

Seriously it looks alright for the money - it'll be nice to strap it to the outside of the car behind the wheel or something.

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Offline Horney

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #22 on: 18 February 2010, 22:16 »
It was shot in the mighty TDI Polo not the Golf :grin:

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #23 on: 20 February 2010, 17:28 »
Looks good!

What about a cigar lighter to USB charger that some phones use to power it for more than 40mins at a time? or to recharge it on the go?
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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #24 on: 21 February 2010, 11:54 »
I read somewhere it won't record when charging which is a bummer!

Just got to pop out and do some shopping and then I think I'm going to try mounting it on the front of the Golf and getting some footage as it's stopped raining here and starting to dry out.

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #25 on: 21 February 2010, 12:42 »
That is a bummer  :sad:
Well I guess you won't be caning the track for longer than 40mins at a time ? and while you're off the track maybe it can be charged using one of these Motorola's mini usb style car chargers.
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Quote from: PenguinGTI on 11 May 2012, 17:49
But for the purest engine experience, displacement has no replacement. All other methods are simply attempts to artificially recreate the benefits of displacement.

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #26 on: 21 February 2010, 15:51 »
Too wet to try outside the car in the end so bolted a mount to the dashboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Y8frZC0OU

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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #27 on: 21 February 2010, 18:23 »
Nice, just ordered one. Got a trackday on Weds so hopefully will be here on time
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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #28 on: 24 February 2010, 19:26 »
Cool! I've just ordered one, got a few ideas for it already:

-Attach to lower grill or rear towing-eye for show convoys,
-Attach to ski-boot for skiing,
-Attach to front of longboard for hill-bombing!

Can't wait for it to get here now!  :cool:
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Re: Looking for a cheap trackday video camera? Then come on in!
« Reply #29 on: 08 March 2010, 21:51 »
Micro SD card finally came thru today, so I got the cable ties out for a quick run.  Stupid me decided to go out in rush hour  :rolleyes: at dusk  :rolleyes: so I've cut out all the waiting in traffic.

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Can anyone recommend some decent (free) video editing/converting software?  From 20mins of AVI footage (1gb), I used VirtualDub to edit it down to 3/4mins AVI (6.5gb) then used some sh!tty free software to convert it to MPEG-II (50mb). 

Quality was actually pretty good up until the final conversion where it went sh!tty, but I'm not gonna try sending out a 6.5gb file!
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