Originally Posted by
wake74
I went to an actual store and bought a new camera (most know me as the frugal guy who always buys used) which is a bit shocking. But in my defense it’s not the latest GoPro and it was open box :-)
This thing has dozens of possible options, so I need some advice. It will be mounted on the roll bar of an RF81 via a RAM mount. I’m mostly going to be watching video on a fairly modern IPad Pro for trackside input from those who know, or in an ideal world merging it with data from my old TraqMate set-up. No one is going to be broadcasting this in 5k on their home cinema watching me run at the back of the pack. My 6 FB followers aren’t even that interested.
Main choices:
1. HEVC or H.264 compression?
2. Resolution? Does anyone really need 5k video? I don’t even own a 4k TV.
3. Frame Rate? I think this will shoot up to 120 fps at 1080, and 60 fps at 4k.
4. Stabilization Settings. Apparently there are 4 Hypersmooth settings, from none to Boost, which also crops the FOV.
Sessions are 25-60 minutes long if I run the whole VDCA enduro, which I generally don’t do, as I don’t want to refuel, so I quit at the 45 minute mark or so. Plus another 15 minutes by the time I turn camera on before I belt myself in and head to grid. Current memory card is 256 GB.
Anyone recommend a starting point?
Thanks!