Well, decided to try and achieve something today... so took the blackvue and my laptop out to the car to try and get it at least working before installation this coming week.

Stuck the camera in the gearknob gaitor and powered it up ready for its 5 minute formatting session. All going well but after just 20 seconds it uttered "starting normal recording" which I thought was a bit early, so I left it for a couple of minutes. Then decided to kill it and connect the card to my laptop and see what was what. Downloaded and installed the software from the card and then reviewed what footage it had taken! This is the result! I didn't even know which way it was pointing.

You can admire my doorcard butchering to stop the uprated speakers vibrating on the slats.... :wonder: The noise in the background is me sellotaping the blackvue's box back together after I managed to rip it open on the side opening it up...

Thats a nice bit of kit Jason, was looking at buying one myself, but for the moment purchased a cheap one for £20 off ebay. The video quality is surprisingly good but no gps tagging. You'll have to post some vids up when its fitted properly.

Karl

i like the idea of filming a car video... i think yours would be much better if it was taped to the top of the gear knob so that when you drive along the image rocks back and forth and side to side

Let's film a Pilot for Briskoda Top Gear. We'll have to find ourselves a Brisky Clarkson, Hammond, May, and Stig. Try and get a Z list Celeb to drive a Favorit in our star in a reasonably priced Skoda.

Thats a nice bit of kit Jason, was looking at buying one myself, but for the moment purchased a cheap one for £20 off ebay. The video quality is surprisingly good but no gps tagging. You'll have to post some vids up when its fitted properly.

Karl

The gps, g info etc.. is stored in a seperate file and viewed alongside the image in the BlackVue viewer. That's just the vid file.

The gps, g info etc.. is stored in a seperate file and viewed alongside the image in the BlackVue viewer. That's just the vid file.

Yeah, I just copy/pasted the media file from the SD card. I assume within the blackvue program you can make a video file with all the overlay information? Haven't got that far yet

Yeah, I just copy/pasted the media file from the SD card. I assume within the blackvue program you can make a video file with all the overlay information? Haven't got that far yet

I don't believe so as it's not a track day camera.

I think the additional data is for the BlackVue viewer, for insurance purposes, not for youtube.

There are products out there that can do it, but they are not cheap.

I'm guessing you'd have to pull the data out and set up a display to overlay the video file.

Which to me doesn't sound easy.

A feature length version of that would be....

.....Sh i te!