Garmin VIRB Elite camera

[RNC]

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Update on the stuff I bought...

I paid FlightFlix for propeller filters 4 days ago and have gotten nothing. No email, no shipping confirmation, no filters.

If I don't hear from them by Monday the PayPal dispute will go in.

 

[gmores]

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Like the video to the EX500 idea. I've often wondered if I could get a straight video feed into the MX20 somehow.

 

[commander62j]

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Tony V:

Thanks for taking the time to document your creative mounting solution for the Garmin VIRB Elite. I really believe that a picture is worth a thousand words! I'll let you know how my solution turns out.

By the way, I found out that the free editing software (Garmin VIRB Edit) requires Windows 7 or Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Since my trusty old HP desktop is running Windows XP (now abandoned by Microsoft), it looks like I'll need to upgrade. I got an iPad 4 last year (for Foreflight) and two iPhone 5S's this year, so I think I'll make the jump to Apple and ditch Microsoft altogether. MacBook Pro here I come!

Andy

 

[proppilot]

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One thing leads to another ;-). I believe you could edit the video with iMovie on your iPad ? If you wish, pretend I did not say that and go get the Macbook. You will be happier for it !

TV

 

[Sherman]

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Joel, wow that is just beautiful and so peaceful. Love it.

Absolutely! One of Camellia and my favorite songs, have to admit Tony was onto something to get rid of the engine noise that didn't record as 'Commander music'.

Used to do alot of super 8mm videos but admit you guys are 'digitally with it'! Maybe Oshkosh will have some Deals I can't pass up. Frank, you said it!

 

[JBunn]

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Here's my first shot at recording with my new GoPro Hero3+. The camera will shoot at 4K resolution but this was shot at 1080 and I played with the shutter speed using between 24 and 30 fps. I used a neutral density filter which attached directly to the skeleton case to help eliminate most of the prop blur. I also used an audio cable I found on Amazon. Still have some tweaking to do with camera placement, fps and different filters, but I was impressed with the first go at it. This was edited using the free GoPro software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQCByT-_hk

 

[Pat]

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Jim
That was great. I like your camera mount. Perfect view and the compass adds to the scene.
Will you have it at Oshkosh.

 

[DKrueger]

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Jim,

Nice video plus added a little Bon Jovi. So many good camera choices and ways to capture audio. I enjoy the videos, keep them coming.

Dan

 

[JBunn]

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Pat,

Yes, I'll have it there. Plan to video the from Fisk inbound. My brother Joebunn is coming this year with me. You and Betty bringing the boys? We just got a new pup. see below. He's stayin home though...

 

[N4843W]

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Tony V:

Thanks for taking the time to document your creative mounting solution for the Garmin VIRB Elite. I really believe that a picture is worth a thousand words! I'll let you know how my solution turns out.

By the way, I found out that the free editing software (Garmin VIRB Edit) requires Windows 7 or Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Since my trusty old HP desktop is running Windows XP (now abandoned by Microsoft), it looks like I'll need to upgrade. I got an iPad 4 last year (for Foreflight) and two iPhone 5S's this year, so I think I'll make the jump to Apple and ditch Microsoft altogether. MacBook Pro here I come!

Andy

I just bought a SurfacePro3 for travelling. Looked at MacBook Air but liked the Surface Pro3 better. It's the bomb. Just another alternative.

 

[Pat]

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Jim
Super, the plan is on.
Nice pup. We need to meet him.
Yes the "Boys" are coming.
Call me when you are close and I will video your arrival.

 

[gmores]

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Nice Jim. Video quality is certainly good on that camera.

 

[RNC]

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Update: I did get an apology for the late shipping from FlightFlix on their lens filters and he got them to me on Monday. They are just a tad smaller than the external lens cover of the Drift Ghost S camera, so you can unscrew the factory lens cover and put the filter behind it, making it effectively permanent, that's what I was shooting for.

Still haven't gotten a chance to play with mine in the air, getting some avionics bugs worked out in the shop until the weekend.

Tony V:

Thanks for taking the time to document your creative mounting solution for the Garmin VIRB Elite. I really believe that a picture is worth a thousand words! I'll let you know how my solution turns out.

By the way, I found out that the free editing software (Garmin VIRB Edit) requires Windows 7 or Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Since my trusty old HP desktop is running Windows XP (now abandoned by Microsoft), it looks like I'll need to upgrade. I got an iPad 4 last year (for Foreflight) and two iPhone 5S's this year, so I think I'll make the jump to Apple and ditch Microsoft altogether. MacBook Pro here I come!

Andy

I recently got a Macbook Air and love it. They are very light, silent, and rugged since they have solid state hard drives (no moving parts!)

 

[TylerB24]

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I recently got a Macbook Air and love it. They are very light, silent, and rugged since they have solid state hard drives (no moving parts!)

One word of caution on the solid state drives- they are fast and rugged BUT they give no warning before failure, and failure is usually catastrophic with to ability to recover data. So always back up!

 

[proppilot]

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Correct. Use some form of backup for your Macbook. I do a Time Machine sync every Friday night automatically. I had the first SSD in my current Macbook Pro fail with no prior warning and it was a brick. Love them leerily !

 

[gmores]

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Not sure with the current crop of Mac's, but with PC installations the management software that accompanies the SSD will give you predictive failure warnings that something bad is soon to happen. Specifically watch for the Reallocated Sector Count to start growing.

 

[TylerB24]

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Not sure with the current crop of Mac's, but with PC installations the management software that accompanies the SSD will give you predictive failure warnings that something bad is soon to happen. Specifically watch for the Reallocated Sector Count to start growing.

It's a false sense of security. SSD drives have a limited number of write cycles before they wear out (or their cells to be more specific) which causes the reallocation. Most SSDs are underprovisioned to set aside addition cells (a 200GB drive might actually be 250GB) to use when cells wear out. Reallocates are a indication of wear, but not predictive of failure. Most SSD failures are related to the controller- which decides what to put where, does the reallocations, etc. if the controller fails, you're dead instantly with no warning.

I recommend frequent backups- services like crashplan allow constant backups from anywhere that has an internet connection for relatively cheap, or even free of you're just backing up to someone else's computer.

 

[proppilot]

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Totally off topic but very relevant, Tyler do you recommend replacing an SSD at any specific time ( as in....is failure imminent at some point ) or just backup backup backup ?

 

[TylerB24]

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Totally off topic but very relevant, Tyler do you recommend replacing an SSD at any specific time ( as in....is failure imminent at some point ) or just backup backup backup ?

Just backup-backup-backup.

My personal routine is this- I have a home server (holds all my movies, music, etc.) that also acts as a time machine destination. As long as my computer is home and on it backs up hourly. I also have crashplan installed with the cloud option backing up all my critical docs, pics etc. in case the house burns down or something. that watches the files and backs up upon saving as long as there is internet access.

 

[RNC]

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My experience with Time Machine is that it's a steaming POS.

I also keep a NAS at home for backups (using FreeNAS) and Time Machine seems to simultaneously fail and cause the network related drivers/apps to crash right along with it.

Might be related to poor AFP support in FreeNAS but that would be easily solved if Time Machine better supported NFS, which I never got to work just right either.

Apple screwed the pooch when they abandoned ZFS implementation, I was really looking forward to that. If they had gone ahead with ZFS we could have all sorts of backup/replication goodies built in, that are not the crap that is Time Machine.