I've got a relatively old now Canon 630i Digital Video Camcorder. It's hopeless for still work - less than 1mp. But it's a pretty good basic digital video camera.
I have finally started to learn how to use it. You know how it is - you buy these things with the best intentions in the world, thinking you're going to be the next Steven Spielberg, then you get the instruction manual out and see how much there is to learn and get discouraged.
Well I've moved past that part and actually know what buttons do what. I cn't say yet that I have mastered it but I'm at least able to learn.
I've jsut discovered the very basic Window Movie Maker program that comes with XP and I've made a couple of basic movies with titles and transitions and trimming the clips etc. It's great fun.
Of course that takes away from my building time. I'm working on the fuselage of an RV8 QB.
I'm interested in getting a video camera mounted in it - maybe more than one for some different angles!
I've seen some great RV7 shots in Southern California on the web. I'll follow up the guys who made that too.
I would love to set things up from the start so that I can shoot some video from the plane in a useful way.
Anyone with tips and techniques for that? What equipment is avilable. I see videos on skydiver's helmets. I figure I must be able to get something like that in the aircraft. Is there something that would allow me to fix the Canon in the cockpit. How do you protect the lenses of externally mounted cameras?
Any good websites dealing with the above?
Ken Stanton
I have finally started to learn how to use it. You know how it is - you buy these things with the best intentions in the world, thinking you're going to be the next Steven Spielberg, then you get the instruction manual out and see how much there is to learn and get discouraged.
Well I've moved past that part and actually know what buttons do what. I cn't say yet that I have mastered it but I'm at least able to learn.
I've jsut discovered the very basic Window Movie Maker program that comes with XP and I've made a couple of basic movies with titles and transitions and trimming the clips etc. It's great fun.
Of course that takes away from my building time. I'm working on the fuselage of an RV8 QB.
I'm interested in getting a video camera mounted in it - maybe more than one for some different angles!
I've seen some great RV7 shots in Southern California on the web. I'll follow up the guys who made that too.
I would love to set things up from the start so that I can shoot some video from the plane in a useful way.
Anyone with tips and techniques for that? What equipment is avilable. I see videos on skydiver's helmets. I figure I must be able to get something like that in the aircraft. Is there something that would allow me to fix the Canon in the cockpit. How do you protect the lenses of externally mounted cameras?
Any good websites dealing with the above?
Ken Stanton