bigoldalphamale

am looking at some different car cams to record some auto-xing and my first road track event, but i am unsure about what type or brand of in/on car camera mount to get. any suggestions?

also, what kind of editing software/hardware do i need to move my hi-8 footage to the cpu for editing and ultimately convert it to dvd? i suspect i need s-video and usb2? photochop 7? any help here is appreciated. thanks!

todd

You'd probably have better luck posting this in the Electronics or Computer forums.

I'm not sure about the camera, but you'd have to check with the camera before you can decide what hardware you will use to get it to your computer. Some might use s-video, others might use usb. You have to use whatever your camera of choice uses.

As for software, I think you mean Photoshop 7, and you definitly would not want to use that for video editing. Photoshop is for images. The software you use also depends on what kind of editing you want to do. If you want to just delete some parts of it, rearange shots, and maybe put some text or black fades in there, the Windows Movie Maker that comes with WindowsXP will be just fine. You won't be able to burn to a DVD from that though. Theres lots of free DVD burning programs out there. Check www.download.com
If you want to spend some cash (or go the illegal route...) Adobe Premier is good for high end video editing.

Cynthetiq

I picked this up from my MINI forum

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kurty[B]

bigold, check the car club that you'll be racing with. I know with the SCCA Rally they have real specific guidelines with how the camera has to be mounted (down to type of bolts, type of bars, and where the camera can be located). With them the camera mount is pretty much an extension of the rollcage.

As far as the type of camera to use, guess that depends on the amount of weight you want added to your car, the quality of the video you want, and the types of format you like.

But definitely check with the Auto-X group on camera mount regulations, they'll probably have a nice booklet with that information.

Cynthetiq

you can also look at this solution:

http://vacucam.littlemini.us/

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bigoldalphamale

word!!! thanks for all the help!!!!!!!!

i will post a link to the video at the end of the summer. should have some pretty sick footage. already got my buddies Lingenfelter Vette taking down a 2004 Viper on I495 near the toll road.