You mentioned probs with mounting the Gopro - I think most of these
are taken care of with the gopro helmethero - it comes with a bunch of
mounting options for different style of helmets, mounting on a flat or
gently curved surface, etc.
Sound is great, you'll usually want to add some music; but the trick
for reducing the 50 megs to something reasonable without appreciable
loss of quality is lots of cutting of footage that is really 'extra'.
The viewer looses the sense of actually being there through a few
complete legs but you can still leave in much more than the pro
videos, which frustrate me that they always cut away as soon as the
sailor leaves the air/critical section of the wave. I'd actually like
to see them jibe, or see if they made it over the wall of whitewater,
but we never seem to get that. How was your video editing software?
I used the frreebee 'moviemaker' for mine and was surprised that it
actually worked pretty well (and is given away with/made by
Microsoft??! Wish their expensive products worked as well!)
THe gopro and most of the smaller cams seem to be 513x384 and 30fps.
Which is just a little smaller than regular TV/DVD quality. Were you
actually shooting 640x480? When I downloaded yours it displays in a
much smaller window than my gopro, and maybe has a bigger file size
because of the file format? I think the lens is a wider angle, which
helps with some of the jerkyness (gopro is supposed to add a wide
angle lens option, but it still is on their site as 'coming soon'.
When you load any video (except those shot at low res to begin with)
to youtube it kills it with compression - some of the others like
vsocial have much better (but still not as good as the original)
quality.
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