That Moment You Record Your Vlog, But The Angle Is Tilted Badly.

Dark Rider said:
Hey man, were you at the Mike Hopkins track day a week or so ago? What group were you in?

I did the same thing lol. Side mount on the fairing facing backwards.

Camera got some really nice footage of my clutch cover and my boot and not much else. Also annoyed I didn't check between sessions!

I was on the silver and black Aprilia Tuono in the medium group.
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No I wasnt there. I've been to Midvaal and Kyalami.

Hahahaha yeah I've made this mistake before, lovely angle of the bike frame though o_O
 
Regarding the "rotating lens", I know its wrong. But it is sold like that, with the text "rotatable lens". I think that was easier for marketing than "internal rotatable sensor" lol.

I think no matter what camera you get, you can stuff up the alignment. Another mistake people make too often is setting everything up off bike, not realizing that your helmet is not level when you are riding. Gets absolutely great footage of the sky or your tank.
 
Done this before its so annoying!!!

I've also clicked record, done the whole video... went to stop recording and all I did was take a photograph!! o_O
Haha bloody GoPros :mad:
 
Jafnhaar said:
Done this before its so annoying!!!

I've also clicked record, done the whole video... went to stop recording and all I did was take a photograph!! o_O
Haha bloody GoPros :mad:
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hahaha. goddamit i keep getting wrong angles. checking the shot angle on my iphone seems to yield close to useless results (since it still comes out angled wrong lol)
 
It's rained here almost every day for the past month and a half or more. I had a two sunny days about a week ago and decided to do as many vlogs as possible. I recorded about 7 different vlogs but was too busy to edit. I thought I would just record a bunch and edit when it started raining again which the forecast said would be soon. I copied all of my footage and two seconds into the first clip I realized my helmet camera was pointed at the gauges the whole time. I could have tried to salvage it all by using my other camera angles but I was so mad I just deleted everything.

I've since fixed the problem with my helmet cam setup that allowed this to happen but since then it's rained every day. Things like this and audio problems make motovlogging so much harder than any other type of content for YouTube. You usually don't know that things have gone horribly wrong until it's too late. With everything else I do on YouTube I can take a second to make sure the audio and video is perfect before continuing and wasting my time.
 
You can easily use the "transform" option in many video-editing programs to tilt it back to flat and then expand it a little so it covers the corners!
 
Toma Rider said:
You can easily use the "transform" option in many video-editing programs to tilt it back to flat and then expand it a little so it covers the corners!
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I tried that, but the combination of tilt and the fact that my camera also pointed down made that difficult.

The one video where it really mattered was a ride with a friend of mine who is very new to riding, I wanted to make sure that he was in the frame, but if I rotated and scaled the video, he was frequently cut out.
 
Toma Rider said:
You can easily use the "transform" option in many video-editing programs to tilt it back to flat and then expand it a little so it covers the corners!
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my biggest problem with it is losing the FOV. especially on my camera that has 140 i thin kor 120° FOV not 170°
 
I use screws in my go pro mount instead of those twisty things.... that way you can crank them down hard and the camera stays there.

Also use your phone and connect to the camera if you don't have a backpack view to see the angle and make it tight right where you want it. Mine never moves.
 
I have a Sony FDR-X3000. That camera comes with a tripod socket, it doesn't come with a swivel mount like a Gopro. I have it mounted on the top of my helmet with a slide mount. There is no adjustment on it. No up and down adjustment, and no side to side adjustment. So the good thing is, once you slide it in the mount, it is always pointed straight ahead at the correct angle, so I got that problem solved. The mistakes I have made in the past is accidentally hit the record button when I'm walking around, then I hit the record button when I want to record something, and find out later that I actually turned off the recording. Or like someone else said, accidentally having the camera in photo mode and not video mode. So now I make it a habit to look in the mirror to see if the red record light is on. I'm thinking of taping one of those fisheye round spot mirrors on the back of my glove, so I can just hold that up to see if my record light is on.
 
WheelyPerd said:
That is a genius idea. You could even put a small one on your bike, which will show you if the light is flashing
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I actually use my mirrors for that. I got a chin mount, and I always check in the mirror to see if my camera is on the right setting.


Other than that I got an LED ring on tthe top around the main button. The top of the camera is slightly in my FOV but I have to really look down to notice it. I check if it's flashing during red lights.
 
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