Author Topic: dash cams (Read 68385 times)

dave500 · « **Reply #750 on:** December 22, 2017, 09:13:12 pm »

cant forget my randon encounter with mark and his dog bob the labradoodle,he has a safety harness on him,just driving in the truck and he comes past.

ken65 · « **Reply #751 on:** December 23, 2017, 02:33:19 am »

Cool #$%*, thanks.

krusty · « **Reply #752 on:** December 23, 2017, 11:03:08 am »

Quote from: dave500 on December 23, 2017, 02:13:11 am

just hogging it because we lost over a week,heres kghost a coupla years ago,spied him in my truck so flagged him down,dig my white zinc on the nose,we do a lotta looking up operating skip trucks and always got a face full of sun,qld has a lotta sun!

It's because of the OZ sun that I got my nickname.

dave500 · « **Reply #753 on:** December 23, 2017, 12:32:33 pm »

yeah it can crinkle you up.

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #754 on:** December 23, 2017, 02:46:49 pm »

Quote from: krusty on December 23, 2017, 11:03:08 am

Quote from: dave500 on December 23, 2017, 02:13:11 am
just hogging it because we lost over a week,heres kghost a coupla years ago,spied him in my truck so flagged him down,dig my white zinc on the nose,we do a lotta looking up operating skip trucks and always got a face full of sun,qld has a lotta sun!
It's because of the OZ sun that I got my nickname.

Did you burn like toast? I worked with a "Krusty" in the Army, but his surname was "Whitbread" so kinda self explanatory.

krusty · « **Reply #755 on:** December 23, 2017, 05:41:00 pm »

Quote from: Terry in Australia on December 23, 2017, 02:46:49 pm

Quote from: krusty on December 23, 2017, 11:03:08 am
Quote from: dave500 on December 23, 2017, 02:13:11 am
just hogging it because we lost over a week,heres kghost a coupla years ago,spied him in my truck so flagged him down,dig my white zinc on the nose,we do a lotta looking up operating skip trucks and always got a face full of sun,qld has a lotta sun!
It's because of the OZ sun that I got my nickname.

Did you burn like toast? I worked with a "Krusty" in the Army, but his surname was "Whitbread" so kinda self explanatory.

When we were kids my sisters and I would have competitions on who could peel the biggest sheet of skin off our backs after the bisters had gone. My schnoz copped it a lot. Did several exercises at Shoalwater Bay and hardly ever wore our shirts, except at dusk when the mozzies came out. Same for when I was in Borneo. Also surfing and 30+ years windsurfing added extra layers of crust. Have had a lot of bits cut out and periodic applications of Efudix to keep the 'barnacles' under control. Gaelic ancestor piss me off. Ooops wrong thread for that.

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #756 on:** December 23, 2017, 10:41:08 pm »

Ha ha, I've got the arms, face and neck of an Aboriginal, and everything else looks like Frosty the Snowman......

vfourfreak · « **Reply #757 on:** January 19, 2018, 08:12:27 am »

More like a "deck cam" this one :

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42739941/fishermen-escape-crash-by-split-second

Old Mr Magoo must have been on watch duty on that boat.

Kev

dave500 · « **Reply #758 on:** January 19, 2018, 01:40:55 pm »

wow scary stuff!

Sgt.Pinback · « **Reply #759 on:** July 28, 2018, 01:25:47 pm »

My first vid with Gopro

Met a NSU tts.

https://gopro.com/v/XgKZDP8WPg4z

vfourfreak · « **Reply #760 on:** July 31, 2018, 03:43:45 am »

Talk about driving while pissed :

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-sussex-43913537/drink-driver-films-journey-on-dashcam

Glad I was nowhere near that locality that day.

Kev

dave500 · « **Reply #761 on:** September 27, 2018, 12:35:46 am »

I have a new dash cam in the truck,its 1080p @60fps and ends up as an mp4,my powerdirector program cant use it like it is anyone use a decent mp4 to say avi convertor?

evanphi · « **Reply #762 on:** October 09, 2018, 07:03:26 am »

I would find a new program for editing. H.264 MP4 is an industry standard now. Plenty of great options out there. Even GoPro has their own editing program.

dave500 · « **Reply #763 on:** October 09, 2018, 12:19:55 pm »

i didn't think of that,ok thanks mate ill have a look around.

RAFster122s · « **Reply #764 on:** October 09, 2018, 04:27:01 pm »

Dave,it might be worth looking at a new powerdirector program update...might be cheaper if you do not find a free one out there...any old videos you want to save in newer format will need to be converted, do it now rather than risking it becoming difficult to impossible later...
You want a loss less conversion program or format.

What operating system and version are you running?

dave500 · « **Reply #765 on:** October 10, 2018, 12:27:10 am »

win 7,i tried a converter that worked but took #$%*ing ages longer than the video was long!thanks RAF

evanphi · « **Reply #766 on:** October 10, 2018, 05:48:12 am »

There's plenty of free options out there for handling MP4.

https://shop.gopro.com/International/softwareandapp/quik-%7C-desktop/Quik-Desktop.html#/start=1

https://www.openshot.org/download/

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve/

dave500 · « **Reply #767 on:** October 10, 2018, 12:44:31 pm »

thanks Evan ill have a look at those after work today.

RAFster122s · « **Reply #768 on:** December 25, 2019, 03:57:07 am »

Bump...Hey Dave and Evan... resurrecting this thread...what no interesting vids to share. Gotta be some great stuff you haven't shared... Dave, your life always seems to be in Technicolor...share a little of that colorful life with us as we move into virtually Jan 2020 on the "top" end of the world into our winter as you peak in the heat...
My brother and his family of five (six counting eldest son's fiance whose from South Africa) and my older sister just returned from a month long vacation trip to AU for a few weeks before travelling to NZ. Brother's youngest son has been in NZ for 11 months and returns to the US sometime in May. While in AU they were Brisbane, Sydney, up to Barrier Reef to snorkel and see it, then out to see Ayer's rock and surrounding area.

David

kghost · « **Reply #769 on:** December 25, 2019, 04:46:18 am »

We have a slight problem here in Australia....

Sometimes the police have used posted video in prosecution....

Speeding, Crossing Double lines, Wheelie...not the best idea to give them evidence....

dave500 · « **Reply #770 on:** December 25, 2019, 01:10:19 pm »

yeah theres been hoons doing antisocial burnouts etc all over the place here and posting it,the cops have a special hoon squad trawling facebook and youtube etc,i did get that video glitch thing fixed with an update to power director works fine.
that would've been a great trip for your brother and family David,ill post a little vid shortly.

heres a new one from last weekend.

RAFster122s · « **Reply #771 on:** December 26, 2019, 07:04:59 pm »

While living in TN I had a former unmarked Police Interceptor package equipped Ford crown Victoria I bought out of California back in 2010 when the car was 10 years old. It had just over 100k miles and was in very good shape. It was retired from public service about 6 months before I bought it and it was bought at auction from the city and went through two different used car lots before I bought it while I was living and working in Sierra Vista AZ. Anyway, I was traveling frequently down a state highway 11W between where I was living and Kingsport Tennessee and would often pass a young motorcyclist who would immediately launch his sport bike into a wheelie when he spotted my car coming down the highway in the opposite direction and would ride the wheelie for a long time after we passed. Apparently he mistakenly thought my car was an unmarked county sherrif's car. They use mainly marked cars they are mostly Dodge Chargers and Ford Police Interceptor versions of the small SUV. The Crown Victoria doesn't work great in snow with all season tires for tires with sufficient speed rating to handle any pursuits. Generally they would utilize a Charger when that would occur and the more powerful Motorola radio can nuetralize many attempt to evade arrest since the radios are faster than any car and multiple police cars and spike strips and other methods to stack the odds against anyone stupid enough to try to outrun but people don't learn and think they can beat the statistics stacked against them.

Anyway..Canadian authorities tried to identify a motorcyclist a few years ago who posted video showing him race down many miles of heavily travelled provincial highway at speeds exceeding 180 kph and at times approaching mid 190s. They were using traffic cameras to narrow down the entrance and exits where he had travelled and we're determined to identify and lower the boom on that Hoon.

Stupid risks that draw unwanted attention for all motorcyclist by the police whom are not in a good mood when dealing with that...
Tucson uses motorcycle officers a lot and I have had them pull alongside of me matching or slowing to my speed briefly before accelerating away. The few times they have done it I was traveling about 7-10 mph over posted limit if my speedo is accurate. I often would rather be in front of the pack of cars after a light than in the middle of them. I like the extra manuevering space it affords and I often in daytime will begin flashing my headlamps from low to high beam as I approach an intersection to draw attention from any motorist whom is waiting to turn across the incoming traffic with prep to do emergency braking and maneuvering if they happen to cross in front of me. I even flash highs at traffic that pulls up to a side street or is waiting at a side street to pull onto a main artery I am traveling.

Figure it cannot hurt to do so.

kghost · « **Reply #772 on:** December 27, 2019, 03:45:06 am »

Wow what a novel lol

Was there a point?

RAFster122s · « **Reply #773 on:** December 29, 2019, 01:13:37 am »

People joining all over and sharing the repeated joining behavior of one motorcyclist/squid who did this more than 10 times...it was so frequent that it failed to surprise me but I would wonder nearly every time I saw him do this how much longer would he survive being reckless like that. Practice will improve your skill and he was getting plenty of practice...but you cannot ignore the laws of physics and the statistical odds of having things go pear-shaped. While I didn't ask that question or make that observation that was the reason for posting. The joining behavior and pack mentality of actively and blatantly flounting what they know full well is illegal and they feel n
Yes I can go off track and down a rabbit hole with the best of 'en;. Haha!

Quote from: kghost on December 27, 2019, 03:45:06 am

Wow what a novel lol

Was there a point?

dave500 · « **Reply #774 on:** December 29, 2019, 03:36:50 am »

yeah stupid risks,weve all done that,more than likely do it again?peer group and showing off im sure has ended with people being killed?i made a promise to myself to reel it in,im a little older now and aint got nothing to prove,yeah sure I can haul an old obsolete bike around fairly well,im gonna rest on my laurels now,no prize for first into the grave yard!

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Author Topic: dash cams (Read 68385 times)

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