Mt. Albright helmet Cam

Nice movie. I love the image quality! I like the shots where you are close to your friend cruising through the trees.
What kind of helmet cam and what HD recorder are you using? It would be neat to see a picture of how the camera is mounted. My brother and I have been capturing video for the past month using a sony bulletcam and a 3 year old canon handheld camera. We just ducktape the cam to a helmet and call it good. 😛
I would like save up and buy a hd camera for next season. What do you think of yours so far?

Sweet, Tex. Nice run.

I think I’m gonna puke.

But really tex, great quality and pretty still for a headcam.

That looks like a long run.

I like your media logo too.

@TEX wrote:

Ok gang…rate my helmet cam

my monitor was bouncing around on my desk… 😉

I think if you zoom in on the rider and getting closer to the subject it’s much better even with the shake, if you zoom out and have all the trees and scenery in a wide angle frame, it’ very bouncy and nervous. But that’s just me.

BTW those are some nice slopes TEX, found some good powder too. Show us more.

Nice Tex,
That takes me right back, Albright is a looooooooong run! Good job on not hitting a tree while following Jeramie.

The connection isn’t the problem for me at least, it’s disk space. Got too much crap on the computer, videos, music, pics, etc. etc. Believe me I know way too much about raw HD/DV file sizes, compression etc. I dislike youtube and some other video hosting sites as well because you have less control over the final output. I think you could come up with a happy medium though, perhaps a smaller frame size but same compression quality (significant file size saving), and offer different downloads. I don’t mind downloading 125 MB for cool footage. I get pissed when I download 125 MB and it’s boring. Of course, all of your stuff will be rad so we don’t have to worry about that! 🙂

About the helmet-as-stabilizer idea: I guess you could stick the helmet on top of a ski pole, and now you have a makeshift tripod! 🙂

Dude I’m on the bleeding edge of technology, writing software that helps people make those big-ass videos… you don’t have to tell me the trend is bigger faster more. I’m just sayin’, consider it for other folks. You can easily have a smaller streaming version, and a big ass download for full quality. I remember the days not so long ago when people were b*tching about 40 MB video downloads being too big. Now you guys got yer HD cameras and it’s all OK. Maybe this is just a sign that I’m getting old and crusty. 🙂

If you’re only dropping 16% file size by reducing the frame size then it sounds like something weird is going on (well depending on the frame size). There are so many options with compression settings, you could spend a week just messing around with that finding optimum settings.

I hear ya man. I’ve been there too (well not quite hauling around the same amount as gear as you!). I am in no way saying you should just give up on quality for file size. I hate the quality of most videos on sites like youtube. I post some stuff there and at Google, but mainly for ease of distribution, i.e. I can just email people links and they can check it out w/o downloading large files. For my friends, I post higher quality downloads or just send them a DVD. I guess an analogy would be if you had a feature film, you post a teaser clip that is good quality but short and small, then you sell the DVD or show it in a theater for the full quality.

But I have seen some very high quality, small size previews of feature type films. I think it’s doable without compromising too much. But yeah, don’t put anything out there that you don’t feel good about.

And yeah, fast and light is for pussies!