Video camera on bike experiement!
Video camera on bike experiement!
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beanbag

Original Poster:

7,346 posts

261 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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www.njrennie.plus.com/vault/toyrun.avi

(Encoded in DivX)

I've got the camera on my (ex)bike which is a Buell XB9R and the fella behind is my mate Turkish on his gorgeous Triumph Daytona 595.

Unfortunately Turkish was knocked off on the M25 a week ago and the bike was trashed. The good news is he's ok if not a little shaken up.

Hope you all enjoy it!

(It's also on Pistonheads.tv so if you like it, please vote for it! )

parrot of doom

23,075 posts

254 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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45mb file

Its extremely well positioned. There's no way to improve the angle and framing, its spot on.

One suggestion though - the sky is a bit bright. Have a think about fitting a grad ND filter on the lens, so we can see the banks of clouds (if there were any on the day), it would make the shot much more dramatic.

Sound quality is pretty good as well for a dv camera.

Excellent stuff!

docevi1

10,430 posts

268 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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I sometimes find it incredible that people are willing to video there potentially very dangerous driving and put it online for the world to see.

The audio and positioning were nice there mind - certainly managed to muffle the mic well!

beanbag

Original Poster:

7,346 posts

261 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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Thanks for the comments. I'm not too up to scratch with filters. I actually mounted the camera to the back of the bike with three sponges, a monkey and about a roll of gaffa tape!

If your talking about the passing between cars....you may have noticed how much we both slowed down (60mph) and both of them refused to move out of the way even after making it clear we were behind them.

So, I passed them quite legally without (believe it or not), exceeding the speed limit.

Mind, the chap who passed us on the slip road must have been cruising at over a ton!

only me

353 posts

289 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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what does this play in all i get is the sound but black screen in windows media player ?

v15ben

16,080 posts

261 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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only me said:
what does this play in all i get is the sound but black screen in windows media player ?


Same for me, is it to do with the encoding??

roop

6,018 posts

304 months

Thursday 13th January 2005
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You need DivX to play it back. Download the free version at www.divx.com

HTH,

Roop


only me said:
what does this play in all i get is the sound but black screen in windows media player ?



>> Edited by roop on Thursday 13th January 21:45