GoPro HD Motorsports Hero Demo Video - NCIX Parking Lot - Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,108 words · ~5 min read
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all right guys so here we are with the
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GoPro camera in the non-waterproof case
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and spite of the fact that it is sprinkling a little bit because we're not going to be going over 100 miles an
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hour yes we're definitely not going to be doing that today uh especially not in
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the super Civic which is my car
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um because it gives you better sound recording
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in that mode okay so I want to show you guys sort of okay here here here first
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first let's let's go with the car so I'm supposed to attach it kind of here right
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cameraman lower okay cameraman says I
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should attach it lower on the car so you can see how dirty my car is I'm using a
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ShamWow to clean my car okay so Vince
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would be proud there we go what about
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that yes it's dirty I know oh put it here okay he wants me to
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put it more like a here okay so cameraman can't make it his mind apparently now my ShamWow is forever
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ruined except I can just wash it and it'll be just fine New Again great okay
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so I'm going to be taking the uh I've actually extended this as much as
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possible with the included mounting hardware so if I loosen this one a
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little bit I have all this flexibility in terms of mounting I can go like this
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I can go like here you can see I can move it like this okay so I'm going to
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go ahead going to stick the suction cup on press the button
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and it is suction cup so in theory the camera doesn't fall off even if I'm
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going along on the highway so just undo
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this now you have lots of other mounting options too you have the uh chest tripod
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which is not part of the mounting options that are oh that's a bad sign
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okay just a second I must have done it wrong hold on hold on just okay
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cameraman helped me get it on there it's on there good now so yeah it's all good
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everything is okay so there you go right I was going to show you the other
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mounting options so you've got little double-sided curvy things so if I were
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to mount it somewhere curved like say for example here I'd put that there and
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then I can mount the GoPro onto there or
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there's a flat one so if I were mount it somewhere flat like say for example here
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I can put it there all right you've got a couple of different arms that'll clip
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directly onto those so if you were to put it say for example on the roof of
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your car then you might just take this one put that there and then you can clip
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the GoPro in like this and it
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will if you can ever the thing through
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there you go then it'll sit on top of your car like that so you have different
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options but we are going to be using the complicated option because that is what
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we do we take the most elaborate
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possible way of doing things and we do it okay so my car is going to look
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really stupid with this one clean spot on it now but whatever that is not
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cameraman's concern apparently
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Okay so we're going to go ahead and
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screw this bad boy in
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here okay that doesn't seem that good but whatever there we are
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almost in almost in all the
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way there we go okay so the camera is
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attached we can adjust everything and then we're going to go ahead and fasten
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everything pretty good so hopefully this is sort of pointed in the right
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direction when we actually start driving the vehicle
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now okay well cameraman's going to get the manual right now but I'm pretty sure
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that I've got it figured out I think I'm recording in
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1080P and I think that it is uh working
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so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put it into the little
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case now bear in mind that I'm turning it on before I put it in the case but I
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don't think that is necessarily the more correct way to do it I think you
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can actually turn it on after you put it in the case because that's what the
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buttons are here for so the button on the front is for uh turning the unit on
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as well as changing settings and then the button on the top allows us to cycle
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through the settings to change and then it also starts recording when we're ready to do that so let's get the car
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started up here and uh see if we can catch cameraman coming out of the
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building with the instruction manual there
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well that's something we didn't think of mounting it on the door let's see if I
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open the door all the way no it won't quite mash the GoPro against the side of
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the car
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oh
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so I should probably do a text disclaimer as well but yeah uh you know
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how the caption usually says professional driver on a closed course
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do not attempt this blah blah blah this was an unprofessional driver in a
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completely unauthorized area do not attempt this so this is just me screwing
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around in the Uber Civic do not try that we're just going to turn the GoPro off
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here and uh then we're going to go ahead
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and remove it take the suction cup off of my car there you go I'm actually just
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going to turn the unit off so that's with the front button here so the LCD
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displays all kinds of useful information actually I guess I don't really need to
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take it out of there for now I'll just throw that back in there and then let's
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just go ahead and pull the suction cup off the car and uh head back inside as
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if nothing happened so thanks for checking out this episode of lonus tech tips about the GoPro don't forget to
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