Sale inspired by me.

Might have to grab it
Thanks Dwayne

Dear Flat Foot Racin,

This is something I have a little bit of experience with.

I have been using some cheap, MPEG 4, Compact Flash, "Aiptek"
video recorders. Click on the following link:

http://www.productshub.com/Aiptek-DV5100F/

They cost about 99.99 dollars at Walgreen Drug Stores. Very
common store in Southern California.

They are about 3" long X 3" tall and 1 inch wide. You can put
a 2 gigabyte compact flash chip in them. That will cost you an
extra 40.00 dollars for the chip. It uses two AA batteries. I use
the Lithium batteries. That will cost you another 10.00 dollars for
two. So you got about 150.00 dollar per camera.

The 2 gig chip is good for about 2 hour of High resolution recording.


What I have been doin' is using 4 of these cameras. Sometimes
I mount two forward and two backwards. Sometimes I have
the camera pointing at the driver's face or maybe I may stick one
on a nerf bar. Sometimes I will mount one above the Left shoulder
of the driver facing forward or backwards.

If you buy a surviellance splitter at "Fry's Electronics", that allows
you to plug 4 cameras into the device and split the TV screen
into 4 segments. This is only used when you down load the video
from each camera. You just sink all four camera to the same
spot when you start your recording from the video cameras
to a VHS tape of DVD at a later time.

Let's say you bring the car up to the starting line. Well,
after recording all 4 videos you stop each camera when the
car gets to the line. Then start all four at the same time
and then record the video to a VHS tape or DVD in a 4 screen/split
configuration.

The surviellance splitter costs around 99.99 dollars also.

For mounting I just use a roll of eletrical tape for each camera.

I just tape the camera to any roll bar or frame part. I make sure the
camera is solidly mounted to the frame rail or nerf bar with the
electrical tape. I tape all the cracks and crevices in each camera
case when I install it to the roll bar. I don't want the battery
compartment coming off or any dirt getting into the tiny crevices of the cameras.

These camera are very easy to use. Push one button to turn it
on. Push another button to start recording and when the car
comes in, push it again to stop the recording.

Later on plug the camera into a VCR or DVR for viewing and editing.

Larry "O" and good luck!:applaud:

Awesome! Thanks alot!!
:levijones:

Dear Flat Foot Racing,

Click on the following link for example of what you can do:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Larryoracing

1) Remember the reason this video looks so bad is Youtube
only allows 10 minutes of video and less than a 100
megabyte file. So what I have to do to put a video
on Youtube is set my DVR to 8 hour mode. This will
allow me to put a 10 minute video on youtube at very
low quality...ie.. less than a 100 megabyte file. If I want
good qualilty video I would have to set my DVR to 1 hour mode
and only record for 1 minute. So I choose to set my DVR to
8 hour mode to show the whole race which is about 10 min
on Youtube. My videos at home are set at 1 hour mode
and they are very clear and precise.

a) The video you get out of the camcorder is much better than
the video you see here on youtube. It is quite clear
and enjoyable. When I record from the camcorder to
to VHS or DVD at home I set the speed at 1 hour mode or 2 hour
mode, not 8 hour recording and it is a very clear picture.


2) Something else you can do is record your race from the stands.
But the trick here is to start the recording as soon as your
race car hits the track. You cannot stop and record throughout
the race. You have to let the camcorder record from the stands
continuously through out the race...i.e..through the yellows, reds
and so forth, because that is what the cameras on the car are doin'.

a) Later on when you put the incar cameras into the
surviellance/splitter jacks, 1,2 and 3 of the splitter, you put
your video output of the camcorder from the stands into
jack number 4.

1) Now when you sink everything up when you car
first hits the track for making the master, the camera
in the stands is locked up frame by frame with the other
cameras on the car.


a) If you want to edit out the yellow and reds and
other footage you don't want in the master video,
the camera in the stands is 'sinc'd' to the incar
camera on the car. You will only get what you want
during the race but the camera in the stands will
be sincronized to the incar cameras because they
were all left running continuously throughout the race.


It works quite well, but you have to remember when the
car hits the track just let the camera in the stands keep running
until l the end of the race and don't stop it until the race is done.

Sincerely,

and good luck.

Larry "O":checkered: