The Video Thread

[kbasa]

I'm now the owner of a nifty GoPro HD and have been having some fun shooting video on it. Am I the only one here that's doing this? Clicky clicky to play! I like the segment from about 6:00 in.

The locale is Lucas Valley Road. I ride this road almost every weekend and never tire of it. The first big corner is about a mile from my house.

http://kbasa.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Videos/GoPro-Videos/i-c4SK5zv/0/M/Airhead-2011-10-08am-M.jpg (http://kbasa.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Videos/GoPro-Videos/19428695_x2mzQt#1519651289_c4SK5zv-A-LB)

[wezul]

Dave I am embarrassed to say I've owned one for a few months and have yet to try it out.
I am so ashamed.
Side case mount?
If that's your first attempt I am impressed.
Did you cross a double yellow? :stick

[Bob_M]

That morning sunlight colored the ride nicely. Were those a pair of wild turkeys at about 1:17?

anyway thanks for sharing.

[terham]

Nice video Dave, I'm hoping Santa brings me a GoPRo HD. I've been very good this year. :whistle

[marchyman]

Video... Who'd shoot video? :D

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Both of those were shot with a bike mounted Contour HD camera; the older version that only does 720p. I'm thinking of adding a second camera for multiple POV. maybe the new go pro, or maybe the soon to be released Drift HD.

[sfarson]

Don't get me started on recording rides! http://rmridervideo.com

I've made every mistake one could make, and still repeat them. http://www.farson.com/smiley/lol.gif

Selectively recording rides is a wonderful way to relive/revisit the journey or adventure.

[kbasa]

Dave I am embarrassed to say I've owned one for a few months and have yet to try it out.
I am so ashamed.
Side case mount?
If that's your first attempt I am impressed.
Did you cross a double yellow? :stick

Thanks and yeah, pretty much my first attempt. Obviously, I need to work on editing...

I used a GoPro HD and used the suction cup mount to attach it to the tank of the R100.

I need to work on shorter clips interspersed with clips of other viewpoints. I've got a helmet mount and am adding a mount to show things like hands, speedometers, shifting feet and that sort of thing.

I should be able to cook up some pretty awful stuff in the near future. :ha

I think that was some kind of refraction that made it look like I was over there. Parallax error...

[kbasa]

That morning sunlight colored the ride nicely. Were those a pair of wild turkeys at about 1:17?

anyway thanks for sharing.

Yep. Rode right through a flock of them. :hide

[wezul]

Dave Swider brought up a good point, editing.
I am curious as to what you (speaking editorially) might be using to edit your video shoots?

Thanks.

[bobs98]

Very nice, Dave! But how were yoiu able to deal with ALL that traffic? :dunno

Unless of course, it was all stacked up behind you. :lol

[marchyman]

Dave Swider brought up a good point, editing.
I am curious as to what you (speaking editorially) might be using to edit your video shoots?


Didn't we just have this thread? Lots of PC choices under $100. http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ for some reviews. On the Mac side there is always iMovie already sitting on your machine. You can now also get Adobe Premiere Elements from the App Store. Or Final Cut Pro X at about $300. Or go crazy and spend $2500 for the newest version of Avid Media Composer. :bolt

[wezul]

Yeah probably but I was not paying attention.
Tell ya what, next time you see me, slap me.
But I'll slap you back! :ha

Seriously though, thanks.
(Don't thank him! But he was so nice Nice schmice, we're gonna slap him next time, aren't we? Must you argue about everything?! YES!)

Now can you do anything about the ridiculously straight roads around here?
Just kidding!

Could this be the new oil/tires/FD thread?

[kbasa]

Very nice, Dave! But how were yoiu able to deal with ALL that traffic? :dunno

Unless of course, it was all stacked up behind you. :lol

Thanks! I live in the Other California, the one you don't see on TV. Believe it or not, I'm all of 15 miles outside of San Francisco.

One thing I'm rarely accused of is holding up traffic. :evil

[wezul]

One thing I'm rarely accused of is holding up traffic. :evil

We must ride together someday.
Sorry if I crapped all over your thread.
I shall fix it with some posts directly.

[kbasa]

We must ride together someday.
Sorry if I crapped all over your thread.
I shall fix it with some posts directly.

Yes, we must ride together some day.

Like I'm worried about a thread. I've got others. :D:ha

In any case, I've been using iMovie and a trial version of Final Cut Pro. I really like Final Cut Pro. However, now that I've managed to stuff my Macbook full, I need to figure out how to move my entire iMovie library out to a networked drive. That's going to be this weekend's effort, I think.

[wezul]

Sounds like a job for FTP.
Thanks again, Mr, Swider!

[DickNCa]

Thanks! I live in the Other California, the one you don't see on TV. Believe it or not, I'm all of 15 miles outside of San Francisco.

Lucas Valley Road...one of my favorite rides in the Bay Area. Now you have let the secret out! Great video.

[bobs98]

Thanks! I live in the Other California, the one you don't see on TV. Believe it or not, I'm all of 15 miles outside of San Francisco.

One thing I'm rarely accused of is holding up traffic. :evil

When I got to SF in 1981, I turned left and headed south to LA. Still looking forward to the other PCH. :thumb

[kbasa]

When I got to SF in 1981, I turned left and headed south to LA. Still looking forward to the other PCH. :thumb

North of SF, CA1 is called "Shoreline Highway". :D

[marchyman]

North of SF, CA1 is called "Shoreline Highway". :D

And south of SF it's the Cabrillo Highway. PCH is the section from Dana Point to Oxnard.

[bobs98]

I'll be sure to seek your advices when I finally do make it out there. :wave
I'm sure I could spend a year riding between SF and the Canadian border without getting bored! :dance

[kbasa]

I'll be sure to seek your advices when I finally do make it out there. :wave
I'm sure I could spend a year riding between SF and the Canadian border without getting bored! :dance

Of that, there's absolutely no doubt. Take your pick of climates, roads and topography.

[wezul]

Take a ride (http://wezul.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Video/Take-a-ride/20048673_bGHJWm#1581082615_4j2sX4C)

On the ET4.
Raw, unedited, BORING but I'm workin on it!
After all this is The Video Thread
Not the chat about the video thread.

Oh man!
Sorry about the auto run folks.
Apparently I have some posting skill issues.

[terham]

Nice job Bruce. I liked the camera angle and how you worked the train in.

What's an ET4?

[wezul]

Nice job Bruce. I liked the camera angle and how you worked the train in.

What's an ET4?

I had to negotiate with the Union Pacific for that.
:ha

An ET4 for the uninitiated is manufactured by Piaggio under the marque Vespa.
150 CC 2 spd auto.

[marchyman]

After all this is The Video Thread
Not the chat about the video thread.

OK, OK. :nyah

I think I've posted this one before, but not on this thread. It is California SR 58 heading west out of McKittrick.

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[kbasa]

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[bobs98]

Nice job Bruce. I liked the camera angle and how you worked the train in.

What's an ET4?

Not faster than a speeding locomotive. :D

[wezul]

Hiya Bob!
What do you mean, I was catching up! :ha

[pffog]

Some fine Smokies riding, longer than the GAP, a Legit 300+ turns (gap has less then 230 by my count) And NO traffic!

2 parts same ride, it is too long for one 10 minute YouTube video
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[pffog]

While on tour with Beach's Motorcycle Adventures in central Italy.

Sorry, late in the day and hadn't cleaned the windscreen.

It is in HDif you click on the 720 at the bottom RH corner of the frame.

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[kbasa]

Last Saturday: 2 minutes of fun with my local riding buddies.

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[Luckies]

If you're interested in Europe ..

Spain 2008 (Vienna to Gibraltar)
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Corse 2010
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Poland 2011 (first time in HD)
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[STAGEHAND]

Airhead trailriding :D
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[bluehole]

Luckies, thanks for posting those videos. Great fun...and interesting too.

[marchyman]

Just two minutes of the ride to breakfast last Sunday. The real reason for this video was to play with a new camera. If you've got the bandwidth you can go full screen and click on the HD button for a 1080p version. The quality is not quite where it should because I had some mount issues (failure to test alignment :banghead) and had to rotate and zoom into the image to get things close to the proper orientation.

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The camera is the Drift Innovation HD 170 Stealth. It was recently highly discounted by Amazon due to the release of a newer, smaller model from Drift.

[AKsuited]

Dave Swider brought up a good point, editing.
I am curious as to what you (speaking editorially) might be using to edit your video shoots?

Thanks.


http://www.squared5.com/


MPEG Streamclip is free and you can do some editing with that.

Harry

[marchyman]

Not everyone is stuck with winter can't-ride blues. This is from Jan 15th. I might have had to crank the heated liner to 30% from the normal 25% on the way to breakfast around sun-up. After breakfast I shot this leaving Pescadero on my way up to Alice's. Full screen HD available if you have the bandwidth.

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[frankgh]

Believe it or not, this road is in Pensacola!

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[jimshaw]

[QUOTE=marchyman;744703]Not everyone is stuck with winter can't-ride blues. This is from Jan 15th. I might have had to crank the heated liner to 30% from the normal 25% on the way to breakfast around sun-up. After breakfast I shot this leaving Pescadero on my way up to Alice's. Full screen HD available if you have the bandwidth.

Loved this ride. Gotta know what camera you used - the video was good, but the audio was about the best I've heard on a motorcycle.

I downloaded it in HD, which takes a half hour when you have Internet stuck in you by Time Warner. Then, played it on the HDTV across the room, and it was terrific. It had me leaning into the turns with you. Sound was great, color looked realistic, not 'blown-out.'

This is the kind of video I'd like to be able to shoot, without a bunch of fuss and setup. Just leave the camera mount on my helmet, and click it in place before a good ride.

Please let me know the make/model you used.

[marchyman]

Loved this ride. Gotta know what camera you used - the video was good, but the audio was about the best I've heard on a motorcycle.

I downloaded it in HD, which takes a half hour when you have Internet stuck in you by Time Warner. Then, played it on the HDTV across the room, and it was terrific. It had me leaning into the turns with you. Sound was great, color looked realistic, not 'blown-out.'

This is the kind of video I'd like to be able to shoot, without a bunch of fuss and setup. Just leave the camera mount on my helmet, and click it in place before a good ride.

Please let me know the make/model you used.


Jim, I cheat. A lot. The video is from two cameras plus an external portable stereo recorder for the audio. The camera on the helmet is an older Contour HD. It maxes out at 720p... I record in its highest quality (default is mid quality) then upres it to 1080p before editing. The audio from that camera is atrocious and was tossed. The second camera is a Drift Stealth HD. When the newer smaller Drift went on sale a month or three ago Amazon discounted the now old stealth model to under $200. It shoots 1080p. The audio is better than the Contour, but still not all that great. The audio recorder is the Zoom H1. Not as good as the H4n, but at less than 1/3 the price (about $85 if you look around) good enough. I added a wind sock then stuck the recorder between tank bag and map case, facing me. I reversed the left and right channels in post processing.

The setup looks like this... the fuzzy thing is the wind sock over the recorder.

http://snafu.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/MOA/i-7k5f2kc/0/S/p-12039-3098-S.jpg http://snafu.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/MOA/i-5tLXRrx/0/S/p-12039-3099-S.jpg

There wasn't much fuss to take the video. Turn camera 1 on, hit record. Turn camera 2 on, hit record. Turn recorder on, hit record. Take ride. The fuss comes after when I ingest the video and audio, upres the video from the Contour, sync the two cameras and audio, then start editing. The video from the bike mounted camera is close to unusable when the bike is idling and at low speeds in 1st gear. Too much bouncing around. The helmet mounted camera lets me fill in where I can't use the better video from the other camera. That three minutes was extracted from the first half of about 40 minutes worth of video. The audio is about 80% from the Zoom and about 20 % from the Drift. Post processing was done on a Mac using Final Cut Pro X.

Enough video geeking out. Since this is the video thread let me end with a video... it starts where the last video left off.

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[lostrider]

Here's a short video from a ride near my home. :D


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https://vimeo.com/20970642

[marchyman]

:thumb Nice, Finn.

It looks like for some of that footage you had the camera mounted to your crash bars. Yes? I've tried mounting a camera to the crash bars on my R12GS but the vibration was so bad I didn't get any useable video. Were you using some kind of shock mount or is it just the difference between the R1200 and the F800?

[r90r100r]

Lostrider: Thanks for the ride!!!:thumb

Mike Horne
76 R90/6
93 R100R Legend

[lostrider]

Thanks fellows!


I use a Manfrotto variable friction Magic Arm (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/553825-REG/Manfrotto_244_244_Variable_Friction_Magic.html) + a Super Clamp for mounting my cameras in precarious places to get The Shot. (or at least slightly more interesting angles)
No shock mount, just dead weight. It's a pretty heavy-duty piece, I'd imagine it could help absorb the vibrations.

I doubt the little R has much less vibrations, just that the waves are far higher in frequency. I'm not sure what that translates through the lens, but I'll have to go shoot something like this on my 1200R to see.


Couldn't find any photos of the mount on the 8R, but here it is on my 8GS.

http://lostrider.smugmug.com/photos/1031901596_4JxHw-XL.jpg


http://lostrider.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/dirt10/2010-08-05-at-15-06-34/1037827620_UpLD4-XL.jpg



And to keep the video flowing in the video thread, here's a couple short unedited clip from another nearby ride, this time off tarmac and two-up.... I get lazy when it comes to video editing at home for fun.... most of my focus is on still images, I do video at work though more of the playback and live type stuff.


<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21888232?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21891214">Rohwer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/lostrider">Lost Rider</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p></p>





<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21891214?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21891214">Lippincott</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/lostrider">Lost Rider</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p></p>

[STAGEHAND]

Eight minutes of a full race stage at Black River Stages, a rally race held in Upstate NY. This was from last September. Chest mounted GoPro. Race starts about a minute in. :D I'm riding a 1990 R100GSPD.
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[RGuy]

Great job. Reminds me of my old enduro days. Like the little pig Maxwell on the zipline - Wheeeeeeeee! Wheeeeeeee! Pure Adreneline! Wheeeeeeee!

[STAGEHAND]

thanks! Here's another one... this is this years Sandblast Rally, held in South Carolina.

24 hours squashed into 10 minutes :D


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[lostrider]

Very cool Stagehand! Thanks for sharing.

Now, go run some feeder, then run some out these motors out please. :)













j/k, I'm a Roadie. :thumb

[lostrider]

Here's few unedited video clips of mine. My ADDHD keeps me from spending too much time playing with video....





No engine needed while on this decent going down the Pete King trail on the Tour of Idaho (http://www.tourofidaho.com/TID.htm) while riding loaded on my GS solo.
Focus! ;)



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Here's some unedited footage from a recent local ride at Rohwer Flats OHV area.
She's a squeaky bike.... :lol3

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More unedited video, this one's a long black diamond climb at Rohwer Flats OHV area.
15/45 gearing sure does help with this sort of climbing. :evil



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[terham]

A bit from today's ride. First time using the camera and it looks like it'll be fun learning how to use it. Not sure how to embed the video so here's a link.

http://terham.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous-vie/11040646_CC3JCB#!i=1774475673&k=qwRkGcg&lb=1&s=A

[sfarson]

About a week ago had fun with my wife and I on the GS, following a friend and his wife on a GS, on a very fun road...

http://youtu.be/OmUEBXhjPcE

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[robsryder]

I was looking at the Nikon USA website's info on the new D800 -
http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Digital-SLR-Cameras/25480/D800.html

The video capability of this Nikon is much improved over earlier offerings. To demonstrate this capability Nikon created a little video. My personal riding style is a bit more risk averse than portrayed in this video - I did like the behind scenes video - (they used quite a few cameras!) Sorry! The embed won't work.

Joy Ride: a short film by Sandro -
http://vimeo.com/36345294

Behind the scenes of Joy Ride -
http://vimeo.com/36345629

[sedanman]

I got a Hero2 yesterday, christened it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbLJgT0Gy_o

[lostrider]

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[terham]

:lurk

[terham]

From a recent ride on my R100RS.

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[mundobravo]

how I spent my winter vacation ...lol ... 36 days of riding in 34 mins , so best grab a refreshment first ..
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[robsryder]

how I spent my winter vacation ...lol ... 36 days of riding in 34 mins , so best grab a refreshment first ...

nicely done. I liked the multi-image presentation; the segments seemed to tie together well. That means that you likely spent a LOT of time editing.

The time spent editing and organizing the video made it something that is very interesting to watch. [So where is the return trip video? Or, are you still in Panama? :) ]