I have a Blackvue 650S-2ch ( front/rear dash cams ) hardwired into my Octavia 230 Vrs ). I'm finding the recording quality is not as good as expected. I've been playing around with the settings but I thought I'd ask what settings other people have their dash cams set to.

 

I have set them on the highest resolution for recording, brightness on max, do I need less sky the picture ? The recording are rather dark in sunshine.  I have a Power Magic Pro fitted as well which enables Parking mode when the car is locked and it protects the car battery from dropping to low but the proximity sensors are very sensitive and seems to be recording one minute frames all the time. The slightest movements by trees/birds/clouds and even rain makes the dash cam record. Can the sensor be altered to make it less sensitive. 

 

Any suggestions please

 

AG

 

 

Edited 30 September, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Hi Auric,

 

Mine's a BlackVue DR380G HD (front only, no Power Magic Pro) so fewer bells & whistles than yours.

 

I use the HD setting (1280x720) @ 15fps. 

The 30fps setting seemed to make little difference to image quality, but it did make the unit became very warm in use.

 

Image Compression - Normal

 

Brightness - 3/4 of the way up between Normal and Bright

 

IIRC these were the settings suggested by BossFox when he tested a couple of dashcams a few years ago.

 

I found reducing the amount of sky in the picture improved the recording quality significantly.

My dashcam points one click (or is it two clicks?) downwards from horizontal.

Sky occupies the top quarter of my recordings.  Car bonnet occupies the bottom quarter.

 

Hope this helps.

Thanks Rob, I'll have a play in the morning and I'll tell you the out come. You suggest 3/4 brightness between normal and bright, I assume on a scale of 1 to 10 normal is 5 

 

Any suggestions on the proximity Sensor ?

Mine has 5 possible settings for brightness:

The lowest setting (1) is marked "Normal"

The highest setting (5) is marked "Bright"

Mine is set at 4

 

Sorry I don't use Parking Mode, so I can make no suggestions on the proximity sensor.

^^  Thanks again Rob ^^.  I've turned Parking mode off, the 230's on the drive and records 12 hours of nothing in one minute segments..

 

I'll have a play with the recording quality and brightness and report back

 

AG

Happy playing - but I think you'll find reducing the amount of sky will make the biggest difference.

IIRC (again!) BossFox found the same 

18 hours ago, Robjon said:

Happy playing - but I think you'll find reducing the amount of sky will make the biggest difference.

IIRC (again!) BossFox found the same 

 

** Update **

 

I have altered the recording settings from FHD 30 fps to FHD 15fps and I've lowered the brightness setting to 4 from 5 ( highest ). I've also lowered the cameras ( Front and back ) to reduce the amount of sky, I can see the bonnet in the front camera and at the rear the top half of the parcel shelf and the spoiler in the rear one, the cameras recording quality has improved 100%. I'll leave it like this for a few days and then possibly tweak it a bit more.

 

Thanks for all your help.

 

AG

 

 

Edited 1 October, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Pleased it worked for you 

 

You are probably aware that changing the setting from 30fps to 15fps effectively doubles the recording time.

On mine (32GB SD Card) the recording time increased from 7 hours to 14 hours.

1 hour ago, Robjon said:

Pleased it worked for you 

 

You are probably aware that changing the setting from 30fps to 15fps effectively doubles the recording time.

On mine (32GB SD Card) the recording time increased from 7 hours to 14 hours.

 

I have 4 settings for quality on the 650s Dash cam.

 

FHD 15 or 30 fps and HD 15 or 30 fps.  Would changing to HD instead of Fhd make much of a difference ? Also the brightness goes from 0 to 5 , I've set mine on 4 Shall I take down it to 3 and see ?

 

 

Edited 1 October, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Sorry mate - mine doesn't have FHD, so I don't know what it means.

Just a thought: could FHD mean eFfin' High Definition, rather than merely High Definition? 

Your handbook may explain the difference, but I hope yours explains technicalities better than mine does!

 

fps = Frames Per Second

 

I doubt brightness level would affect recording time.

For optimum recording quality, I found Brightness Level 4 to be the best compromise in both my Roomsters and my Yeti.

 

I think it really is a case of establishing a base setting, then changing one thing at a time to see if it makes any improvement.

9 minutes ago, Robjon said:

Sorry mate - mine doesn't have FHD, so I don't know what it means.

Just a thought: could FHD mean eFfin' High Definition, rather than merely High Definition? 

Your handbook may explain the difference, but I hope yours explains technicalities better than mine does!

 

fps = Frames Per Second

 

I doubt brightness level would affect recording time.

For optimum recording quality, I found Brightness Level 4 to be the best compromise in both my Roomsters and my Yeti.

 

I think it really is a case of establishing a base setting, then changing one thing at a time to see if it makes any improvement.

 

The hand book is more like a ' Quick guide " I was assuming that FHD was "Full  HD " so every thing recorded in Full all the time.  HD seems to give better quality but I suppose its like HD and Ultra HD on the TV's, joe public can't really tell the difference.  

 

Anyway thanks for your input Rob, looks like you've set me off in the right direction.

 

 

Edited 1 October, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger