I answer some questions

Some of you have sent me questions over a month ago.

Here I start to catch up on answering them.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• MrBKBiker
• RC62
• tenkas
• SuburbanRyder
• SuburbanRider
• camera
• motorcycles
• vlogging

[HiCountry88]

I wish we had a Dunkin Doughnuts.

[suburbanryder]

I hear ya. My hometown of Kansas City doesn't have even one DD that I am aware of.

Business opportunity there for someone I think.

[suburbanryder]

Right now I have just one Nolan helmet for vlogging. One camera is in the helmet and two extras are in the right and left pockets charged and ready to go. Sometimes for two camera work the Vado SD is mounted on the back rack facing behind recording other bikers following me.

Some of the rear facing shots are on the lauriejennifer channel on YT. Look at her first intro test video a few vids back.

[Skazzious]

Ahh looking forward to the tutorial... Would be good to see how you upscale your vids to how I used to upscale mine.

The vado is an awesome camera for vlogging though but the mic is a bit sensitive for my voice... distorts from time to time.

So you use all 3 cams in your lid? :) plenty of stuff to carry arround. Or does it depend on the helmet your using?

[suburbanryder]

I pretty much keep the 4:3 aspect ratio for the SD Vado and the 16:9 ratio for the HD.

There is a trick I use with the Cybershot to make it appear to be HD by changing the aspect ratio with software. It only works well with camera files that use less compression than normal otherwise it just looks like bad SD in a 16 by 9 frame.

tenkas asked for a tutorial about how I do that so keep watch it should be up soon.

[Skazzious]

Ived used both 7 and 8 but quickly went back to 7 when I found 8 didnt have all of the masks i wanted... I could have still used the masks from 7 but would have had to make and convert them myself and i really couldnt be bothered to get them up to spec really.

When I reinstalled I had an issue with MP4 files but that was all down to a patch installed... had to totally hunt down and uninstall everything then it worked again. I do believe I have prem on here to but rarely use it :/

[Skazzious]

Thats a fair point. The vado really is cheap over there... Amazing how the conversion screws me over for electronics.

So when you use the vado do you just use your editing software to change the aspect ratio or?

[kellock71]

which power director? I think you have to use only the lastest version..mine wouldn't recognize mpeg-2, and it was last years version...so now I use adobe premiere...which I recommend! :D

[suburbanryder]

Well I probably added to the confusion there.

I do have the standard Vado also.

I use if for shots where there is a possibility of the camera getting damaged.

Better to destroy a 45 dollar standard Vado than a 150 dollar HD Vado or my Sony Cybershot.

[Skazzious]

Ah thats very cool... When I 1st looked I thought it was the 1st Vado which is why I couldnt figure out what you said about having a cam in your lid with widescreen as thats only 4:3. I should have noticed really seeing as Im using a vado HD also :D very good camera.

For vid editing software I use many but I would recomend PowerDirector for encoding HD vids... very simple very quick :)

Just figured I would throw that one in there haha