"helmet wind noise"...that's one reason for having the external mic....you find a 'quiet' place on you or the bike...it won't record with the GoPro audio when that mic is operating...course...you KNOW that;)

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"helmet wind noise"...that's one reason for having the external mic....you find a 'quiet' place on you or the bike.

The wind noise inside my helmet disturbs my voice with the microphone when I tried to motovlog last Saturday. I ordered a "WindCutter Fur Microphone Windscreen". I hope it helps to reduce the microphone wind noise.

Okay...yeah...gotcha;)I recorded inside my helmet like that once...I didn't get barely any outside noise...but the idea of talking about my riding experience while riding just didn't get it for me.....bunch of riding vids on the net with guys talking....maybe e-mail one of em?See what they're doing?Where they're placing the mics.Mine was right at the chinbar...up inside there.It was very clean.

bunch of riding vids on the net with guys talking....maybe e-mail one of em?See what they're doing?Where they're placing the mics

In a few weeks I'm meeting up with a group of motovloggers in Long Island (2014 Operation NY Cheesecake). I met them at the International Motorcycle Show in NYC last December, they also rode to Revzilla in Philadelphia a couple of months ago. So far about 60 riders are planned to attend, I am sure I'll get most of my microphone/setup questions answered that weekend (Saturday, July 19th).

I hope to solve or minimize this issue when I use the microphone fur windscreen next Saturday.

Just picked up a replayxd mini camera and they offer a Mic as an accesory .. Jut thought I would mention it ... I don't know the specs but it's $45 from replayxd.com

That gopro really shakes vs. the xd

Hmmmm.

Replay XD720 Complete System
149.99 USD

This is their cheapest unit available on their site.

Nothin at $45....

$45 was referring to the microphone...

Not the camera itself....

http://replayxd.com/products/audio/

I have a 1-gig hard drive a friend sent. I finally buy the unit to connect the drive to tower. Instructions were not matching up to the steps. Throw the paper away and start playing with the control panel, click this, click that, I now have a running second gig drive.

Here are 3-days of steps, all the downloading time, the hard drive install, all this for each 14min recordings, etc.

1. Now, drag the gopro vids to the P: drive [for goPro] and things are looking fine and loading to P:.

2. Then, pull the card out of the tower, click on [P: drive] and no vids.

3. Between Installing the gig, the thumbdrive back in the slot, click P: and now the vids pop up in P:, I'm now 2 days in, what is going on?

4. During days 2 and 3 I try all sorts of gopro to windows moviemaker moves, trying MOV, AVI, vs. gopro's preset. Yeah, I was seeing movies in P:, saved there and only when the vids in the card were in the tower's card reader slot did they appear and I could now copy and cut.

5. Stick-to-it and today I again tackle it. Hours wasted thinking I toggled someplace I can't recall how I got there, and wasted those hours backtracking to nowhere. I thought that setting was not making things happen. That was not it at all.

6. It was there in my face I didn't try. Not being familiar with the gopro process, I was trying to save the videos; by trying all sorts of loopholes that did and did not pan out.

7. What I did learn was how to install a remote drive in win8. How to convert goP to movmkr files [use AVI] so far. Drag the damn file under the gopro view screen when editing [was too simple of not catching that the first time]. Saved the whole 14min in the drop under the screen... was my whole problem why I could not save the files off the card.

8. The senior moment was thinking I could drag to left pallet, convert, edit to AVI, missed dragging the 14min under the screen in edit that says, 'drag here' more or less and I saw the right pallet show the vid was loading and 'competed.' Ah, I could then see how to pile up 14min files, keep dropping the 14min under the view screen, next to the first one you cut up, then cut the next, drop the same 14min until the good stuff comes up. So you kept dumping the same 14min cut into 5min worth of footage.

9. And now edit it in a fine tuning sort of way? Look at how many cuts/cam positions/is Kofla's intro. Editing is a whole different art form let alone get it on film first.

Hubster...PLEASE...add some fluid to yer clutch res,will ya?;)

Race bikes use just a short clear tube and a plug over the end. I've got more than enough in there. Clutch works fine btw.

I know...Just funnin ya

I have a Hero 3 and never use it because I'm inept . I don't know how to make DVDs , put it into emails ,put music to the video , etc. What is the best manual or book that'll help me ?

What is the best manual or book that'll help me ?

It a new book called 'Google' lol

I'm the same way, always looking for something in print form and my kids look at me like I have two heads. Lately I've been using my smartphone as a smartphone and watching instructional youtube videos and looking things up on google as I'm working in the garage.

This is converted to movie maker. I have a slow pc and a faster pc. The slower one chops or keeps buffering it's too slow a processor. The later one can keep up with the gopro speed so that's one problem right there. How fast is the pc? Win7 or win8 could handle it. XP is too slow if you use xp.

Mebgardner - to get a more natural view angle with a GoPro set the Hero3 or the Hero3+ to 1080N (narrow angle) and 60FPS. The 1080 mode setting does not suffer from pixel noise as the 720 mode does and 60FPS gives a smoother video, the downside is large video files. I have have used the Hero2, and own a Hero3 Black and Hero3+ Black. Here are screenshots taken from video showing the Hero3 Narrow viewing angle and Hero2. Both shots are at the same place (different season), no color correction or cropping applied only resolution reduced to upload smaller image file, the Hero2 has significant barrel distortion and white balance difference.

Hero3 1080N 60fps camera mounted above bike's headlights.

Hero2 1080 30fps mounted on helmet

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Ok, instead of creating a new GoPro thread I decided to resurrect this old one with a new inquiry.

Does anyone reading this uses multiple GoPro cameras simultaneously? Now I own (3) GoPro cameras, and I am trying to come up with unique ways to film (3) different camera angles at the same time.

I am also interested in getting aerial (follow-me mode) GoPro Drone video footage. Have any of you guys ever used a drone?

I think it would be great to record something like this video:

I have used up to 4 cameras mounted on one bike and mounted cameras onto other bikes riding in our group. Finding a suitable mounting point with minimal shake and vibration can be difficult as there are only a few postions on the bike that are suitable, moving a camera a few inches can make a noticeable difference. Editing video can be difficult as color varies from different camera models.

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I've used two. On side and on steering stem and on tail cowl. I git it to stick to the front fairing once too. I'm not that picky about camera shake (actually knd of like it) and I don't think color shift would be a big issue either. Never noticed that with mine but they were same model.

Never used a drone with a GoPro but have flown them. If it is a big enough drone and has follow me ability, it should be good as long as it is able to detect a collision course and react to avoid. If not, you will have to set for a safe hight which may mean 100 feet or more. GoPros do not work well for filming distant views. I think using a drone would be a huge PITA. Fine if you have some ideas for quick clips but you will be stopping to get the drone back to you often. They don't go too fast. Maybe 55~ 60 mph. You could do some cooll shots if you planned it out carefully but the focus would most definitely be on getting the shot rarther than riding. i already feek this distraction using a bike mounted camera.

I saw the folding GoPro drone. Looks very cool but I wonder if something less market specific might not be a better drone equally capable of carrying a GoPro. I've used a Phantom III Standard and it was an amazingly easy to fly drone that had it's own cam. I have seen Phantoms fit with GoPro.....I'm not sure why GoPro went into this market. Just seems like it would be very hard to compete and possible corner cutting.

Never used a drone with a GoPro but have flown them. If it is a big enough drone and has follow me ability, it should be good as long as it is able to detect a collision course and react to avoid. If not, you will have to set for a safe hight which may mean 100 feet or more. GoPros do not work well for filming distant views. I think using a drone would be a huge PITA. Fine if you have some ideas for quick clips but you will be stopping to get the drone back to you often. They don't go too fast. Maybe 55~ 60 mph. You could do some cooll shots if you planned it out carefully but the focus would most definitely be on getting the shot rarther than riding.

I think the challenge is to find someone else to manage the drone controls while we ride, as shown in the Hymalayan motorcycle ride video.

I have used up to 4 cameras mounted on one bike and mounted cameras onto other bikes riding in our group. Finding a suitable mounting point with minimal shake and vibration can be difficult as there are only a few postions on the bike that are suitable, moving a camera a few inches can make a noticeable difference. Editing video can be difficult as color varies from different camera models.

I recorded this video on different days and there is a noticeable color variation even though I am using the same GoPro camera, placing the camera in different locations. As you can see at the beginning of the recording, I am having a hard time minimizing vibration.

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I saw the folding GoPro drone. Looks very cool but I wonder if something less market specific might not be a better drone equally capable of carrying a GoPro. I've used a Phantom III Standard and it was an amazingly easy to fly drone that had it's own cam. I have seen Phantoms fit with GoPro.....I'm not sure why GoPro went into this market. Just seems like it would be very hard to compete and possible corner cutting.

Last I heard, GoPro drones had to be recalled last November.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/11/08/gopro-recalls-karma-drone/93503884/