Clear Indicators

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:09 am

This is only for Travis and Mel really.

Since Bennoz is sending our indicators from the group buy to me to distribute, I want to get them to you asap. He is posting them Monday, so they should be here Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest. You wanna meet up one evening during the week to get them or wait till the weekend ?

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:25 pm

I'd love to get my hands on em ASAP, but whatever works.

Bye bye Jaffas!!!

Let me know when they arrive and I'll organise, happy to come for the drive to pick em up, but can wait till the weekend if need be.

Mel_star_1 · Post by **Mel_star_1** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:10 pm

Aw yay!

I dont really mind whatever is easier for you guys. I can drive down there if ya want or will you be in the area anytime soon?

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:18 am

Well, I dont have any plans to head in that way during the week. Ill let you know as soon as I receive them, and then we can sort out delivery. I have both your mobile numbers

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:11 pm

Looks like we might have to make it the weekend. Bennoz has been snowed under, so not posting till Wednesday

, so, hopefully here by Friday <crosses>. Ill message you as soon as I get them. Ill be around this weekend anyway.

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:16 pm

I'll be able to get 'em away tomorrow, it'll be o'night courier so you should see the Thursday

The Fergusson Bowl addy still current?

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:20 pm

Yes mate

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:56 am

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:21 am

They left yesterday, should be there today

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:23 pm

Got 'em, Thanx.

BTW, I love the way you spell my last name differently every time you send me stuff lol.

Mel_star_1 · Post by **Mel_star_1** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:24 am

hey spar i sent you a pm.

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:23 pm

Maybe the forum still isnt working 100%, cos i never got a PM

Sent you an SMS instead.

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:57 pm

Forum is 100% now but we lost a little data.

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:28 pm

Hey Travis... you know the Video stuff I ordered that I told you about ? Its here

You know what I hate though? I get the "package not delivered, waiting at post office" slip, and the post office is closed when I get home. Now I gotta wait till tomorrow to pick it up

Not too bad I guess... 11 days (including weekends) from order to delivery from the states...

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:57 am

Sparhawk wrote:You know what I hate though? I get the "package not delivered, waiting at post office" slip, and the post office is closed when I get home. Now I gotta wait till tomorrow to pick it up

I can beat that. When I was waiting for my seat covers I wake up to find the slip in my mailbox 15 mins before they shut. Throw on some clothes and race down there so I'll have em for when I get home from work and they're closed...

So when's the "Test Steve's new toy" cruise on?
I downloaded that Hong Kong FTO owners video the other day and it's got me a bit enthused...

I reckon I'll have to get one too. My brother and I bought a couple of RC helicopters the other day and I reckon I could strap it up to that

Now I just gotta learn how to fly the thing properly

...
And fix up the brothers which dropped out of the sky from about 20 meters in the air at the hands of my nephew

Surprisingly little damage done

Hmmm, that's an idea... Fly by on an FTO cruise... Hmmm...

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:47 pm

TCGPX wrote:So when's the "Test Steve's new toy" cruise on?
I downloaded that Hong Kong FTO owners video the other day and it's got me a bit enthused...

I reckon I'll have to get one too. My brother and I bought a couple of RC helicopters the other day and I reckon I could strap it up to that
Now I just gotta learn how to fly the thing properly ...
And fix up the brothers which dropped out of the sky from about 20 meters in the air at the hands of my nephew

Surprisingly little damage done

Hmmm, that's an idea... Fly by on an FTO cruise... Hmmm...

Well, I need to find a way to mopunt it properly first. A little trial and error I think.
I tried a very basic mount (using the supplied velcro around my front bar, and it came up really jumpy. So i tried it again with some added foam, and its quite good. The only thing is, its looking down at the road a little too much. I need to mount it better though. I dont want to rely on the velcro anyway. Might try a bracket on the number plate Doofilacky <-- technical term for the thing the number plate bolts on to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdF9-SK1W-o

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:59 pm

Looking great!

Even the audio picks up the engine sounds really well too (not much MIVECin in there Steve, take it up to the redline you pansie

)

Sounded like there's some high pitched noise in there (hard to tell with dodgy utube quality) probably caused by air rushing over the mic hole. A bit of very loose soft foam over the hole would fix that up a treat. (They used to have these foam sock type things on the mics of old over-the-shoulder type cameras that worked well.)

Good to see it's fairly wide angle too, perfect for this sorta thing. Gives a much better perception of speed being lower to the ground too.

Looks like it'll be perfect for cruise vids with a bit of fine tuning, nice find there Steve. Look forward to seeing more.

I gotta get me one of these...

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:04 pm

Yeah, not sure what that high pitched noise is. I had some foam wedged under the front of the camera, which is where the mic is, and im pretty sure its not wind noise. I had it hanging off the side of my mirror originally, and wind noise is just white noise, as opposed to the whistle, meh, Ill experiment a little. I dont expect it to have a top quality mic anyway...
I have a plan to mount the camera on the number plate bracket, with foam etc. I'll get on to Shaun about the next cruise. Hope he can organise one (for old times sake lol) and then I can drive at the back of the group, and film

What software do you use for your video editing. I guess Ill need to look into that now...
As for not much MIVEC, well, it was the second run up that road, as the first time the video didnt work well, and I couldnt be stuffed pushing hard again, incase this time was the same lol. I promise when I get it mounted and Im happy with it, ill go for a hard run (staying within the boundaries of the law of course) The problem there is, you reach the 110 speed limit too fast, and only get a little mivec in anyway...

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:09 am

He he, there's always wrinkles to iron out with this sorta thing...

If it's a whistle, could be coming from the number plate or grille, something you wouldn't normally hear but is right next to the mic so it's picking it up.
As you said, trial and error will sort it out.

For video editing, I mainly use iMovie HD (Mac App) which is quite basic but does what I need it to most of the time and is so easy to use.
Best program I've used for blending music into movies too.
When I need something more advanced, I've got Final Cut Pro to play with.
Lets you do almost anything you can think of with video, but it's annoying cos you gotta render everything even to preview it, so I usually just edit a clip with FC Pro and then import it into iMovie.
Also just got my hands on Adobe After Effects so I'll put that through it's paces soon.

I'll let ya know what it's like to use.