Video of Track Day

[Pepi1677]

I am going to be doing a Track day at Goodwood this year and have been thinking about videoing some of my track time. Has any one done this? what did you use to hold the camera most of the mounts I have seen use the Headrest stems to hold the camera, but as I drive a 996 it does not have any. Any ideas?

 

[tscaptain]

I have a very small, lightweight camera that is mainly used on my radio controlled heli. It attachs to the rear view mirror with a couple of elastic bands! Takes pretty reasonable vids though its only 1.3 M pixel and get about an hour or so out of a 2gb card.
If interested it's here
http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/Heli-Cameras/FlyCamOne-V2/

 

[Pepi1677]

Thanks for that, looks quite good, do you have any footage of it in use for a track day? How do you secure it in the vehicle?

 

[Mark Elder]

Wow - I've got to get one of those like Alan's - only 37gms is amazing.

I've been using one from Oregan Scientific (it's made as a head cam for biking and skiiing but comes with a tripod mount so you can use a suction pad to fix it to your rear window (looking forward in the car) to capture driver wheel movement etc as well has the view through the windscreen. But the suction mount I have is not great and it tends to fall off after a couple of laps!

 

[So Poo]

Best way to get video if no cage is a bullet cam (stuck on the bonnet or wing or somewhere) and linked up to a video camera in the car. However that will also be quite expensive. This place do some really good kit:

http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/motorsports-car-camera-kits.htm

Probably way over the top though. Best cheap solution I have seen for sensible money is below:

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/action-cameras/index.html

This is a good example of an in car video (camera on sucker mount to windscreen) from an M3 at Spa recently:

http://openpitlane.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=8646

This one is shot from a bullet cam outside the car at Oulton:

http://www.openpitlane.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=8480

Hope that helps somewhat.

 

[tscaptain]

I've got a couple of files but the smallest is 350mb! I will see if I can chop a bit off and e-mail to you or put on Photobucket. I secure it by a couple of elastic (hi-tech) bands. It seems to be very stable with not much vibration. It records sound too. Does anyone know how to shorten an AVI file?

 

[Richard_Hamilton]

If you use XP you probably have Windows Movie Maker. Import the AVI, drag it onto the filmstrip at the bottom, trim it by moving the end points, and finish by saving it to your computer. You can save it in a diferent format, something like wmv, which will reduce the file size even further.

 

[tscaptain]

OMG Richard, how long have I had XP and didn't realise you could do that! Anyway here's a few laps at Combe recently with the FlyCam. I think the one on the website I posted earlier is v2 so probably better quality. I don't think it will improve the quality of the driving though[] There's a crackle on the sound which I will try to solve next time out, but you can still hear the PDK changes![]

http://s437.photobucket.com/albums/qq100/tscaptain/?action=view&current=Trackvid.flv

 

[Pepi1677]

Thanks for all the info, looks like I have got a bit more research to do. Thanks again