Let there be Video
November 28th, 2009 | Filed under: General, Motorcycles, Videos | RSS Feed

Now that I’m hoping to create and post more motorcycle riding videos I figured I’d install a plugin here that would allow me to embed Vimeo videos directly within my posts. That plugin is Vimeo Quicktags and it’s now installed, so I’m here to wow (umm, maybe) y’all with a demo post! The video below is a brief snippet from a recording I made one day while commuting to work in San Francisco. The content itself is nothing special, it was just my first shoot with my then new ContourHD helmet camera, and it was my first simple edit and export for posting on Vimeo using Final Cut Express. Now, it’s just here as a piece of demo video content to display in this post, enjoy.

You can view the video above as well as any others I post in the future by checking out my page on vimeo.com:

http://www.vimeo.com/higgyb

Hopefully I’ll get some content up that won’t suck and that you might enjoy, stay tuned.

There are 2 comments:
  1. Brian Williams says:
    December 21, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Hey Tom,

    I’m a Biker friend of your dad’s up here at the Lake. Outstanding blog. Do you still like this helmet cam? And does it work easy with QuickTime and iMovie? (I can’t fined my FC Express)

    Cheers,

    Brian

    • HiggyB says:
      December 23, 2009 at 10:43 am

      For the most part I love the ContourHD camera! It’s dead simple to use, easily mountable/removable and you can buy extra mount “sockets” (my term :P ) to move it about when desired with no hassle and it shoots great video. And yes, it saves out H.264 QuickTime ready files, easy use in the QuickTime Player or iMovie (or of course Final Cut Express if you can find your license/CD). Additionally I bought 16GB MicroSD cards and can now squeeze something like 8 hours of footage on to each one, and each battery on a full charge can record for 2.5-3.0 continuous hours.

      The only negatives I can think of are that it’s not waterproof (most folks don’t care, I off-road a bit so I do), the microphone on it is terrible, and you can’t use an external mic without breaking open the outer case (lame) and it uses proprietary batteries that require you to plug the camera into a computer via USB or you have to buy a separate USB battery charger (not horrible but something like rechargeable AA would be nice, but add size).

      Overall would I recommend the model I have to someone? No, but only because they now make one that shoots in 1080p whereas mine is “only” 720p. :)