This Is How Complicated It Can Get, Lol!

CaptainCranky

CaptainCranky

Misunderstood genius
This may help a few, or maybe just seem over the top!
Dunno - it's a continual work in progress :)

Several camera mounts and several mic positions, it can seem like an editing nightmare but, there are ways to streamline editing, good habits to foster and short-cuts can help.

I try to discuss it in this video, maybe it will help some who are new to this game, and even some who aren't :)
 
If you have a system then it makes things easier. I sometimes run with 2 cameras and getting those in sync isn't too hard. I used to run an airsoft youtube channel where I had 3-4 cameras that needed to be in perfect sync as you could watch the BBs fly into folks faces over 70m away! :D That was a real pain in the bum to sync, mainly due to the cameras I was using as I think they were running slightly different frame rates.
 
HippoDrone said:
If you have a system then it makes things easier. I sometimes run with 2 cameras and getting those in sync isn't too hard. I used to run an airsoft youtube channel where I had 3-4 cameras that needed to be in perfect sync as you could watch the BBs fly into folks faces over 70m away! :D That was a real pain in the bum to sync, mainly due to the cameras I was using as I think they were running slightly different frame rates.
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Yeah good point on mixing cameras, I have 3 Drifts so they match pretty well. I use imovie and layer each camera on top (for visual) or below (for sound) the helmet camera. Then the whole length of the footage is synced once I sync the start and I can cut and choose from there.
 
Not sure if they are available in other editing programs but I use Markers in Adobe Premiere Pro on the Vocal/Audio track of one clip and the visual track of a second camera. I then slide them in the Timeline until they Snap together. Through trial and error I eventually get my tracks to sync together.

- Wuf
 
Sometimes I think I could actually use a clapper board.

But then again its not much use when I'm out.

The hand clap thing only works slightly for me as I have the sound off on one of my cameras.
 
It all depends on the person I guess.. I sometimes run 2 cameras and I already feel the burden when it comes to editing. Generally I'm not a huge fan of spending hours on editing so I tend to keep it simple, however for those that have a passion to edit all the various footage that's their preference.

One thing though, running so many cameras and etc, I'm not sure exactly how focused one can be on riding without thinking if your this or that camera is on.. Angle is right.. Or did it fall off somewhere.. Just too much to wonder about while riding, at least for me.

Ride safe and safe ride!
 
SighBored said:
One thing though, running so many cameras and etc, I'm not sure exactly how focused one can be on riding without thinking if your this or that camera is on.. Angle is right.. Or did it fall off somewhere.. Just too much to wonder about while riding, at least for me......
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I get what you are saying here... but I also see it from the other side of the coin.... I've been running 2 cameras max in general and have lost all that footage in the past due to one or e other not recording audio.... having so many cameras on the case would surely mean the audio in some form would be covered if footage got corrupted?
 
HippoDrone said:
I get what you are saying here... but I also see it from the other side of the coin.... I've been running 2 cameras max in general and have lost all that footage in the past due to one or e other not recording audio.... having so many cameras on the case would surely mean the audio in some form would be covered if footage got corrupted?
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Yes you can see it as a backup, but the new cameras should have very very low failure rate, and I generally don't see the value of footage if it gets corrupted, that's that, since I'm not doing any stunt or action scenes.. I rather focus on one camera running properly than having too many just in case of a failure of one or more of them.

So far in all my years I have to say camera failures for me are really low, hardly even countable. The only ones I might face now would usually be if the external mic USB is knocked during recording then the audio might get f-ed up.
 
SighBored said:
It all depends on the person I guess.. I sometimes run 2 cameras and I already feel the burden when it comes to editing. Generally I'm not a huge fan of spending hours on editing so I tend to keep it simple, however for those that have a passion to edit all the various footage that's their preference.

One thing though, running so many cameras and etc, I'm not sure exactly how focused one can be on riding without thinking if your this or that camera is on.. Angle is right.. Or did it fall off somewhere.. Just too much to wonder about while riding, at least for me.

Ride safe and safe ride!
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Yeah I've done almost 100000Km with this set up on 4 bikes, I totally see your point and it certainly would be dangerous if I was thinking about the cameras.
I actually record every second of my riding, start up the bike, start the cameras and don't think about them until I turn the bike off.

I think about the cameras when sat at my computer later!

This, of course creates massive amounts of footage - most of it I just delete. My view is I can delete footage I don't want but I cannot create footage I did not have :)
 
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