I’m getting set up for video on this trip and hope to do a better job of capturing the experience than I have in trips past. It’s great to be able to tell the stories about what you see and experience, but sometimes its good to have video proof. That got me thinking about the first time I had a video camera on a ride. Back in 2010, I did a trip that included southeastern Utah, and I was with a friend on the Moki Dugway when we saw a truck in the distance. Here’s a Coors Light truck coming down the Moki Dugway! I filmed with a helmet-mounted Contour HD camera. It was actually pretty good for the time and purpose, but I think Contour as a company is long gone. I’ll have to see if I can find the old camera somewhere.
For the upcoming Alaska trip, we’ll have a bunch of different cameras. I just ordered an Insta360 X4 camera which I’ll be trying out this weekend. I also have an inexpensive Akaso action camera which will be mounted somewhere on the bike (plus a GoPro 3 and 4 if I can find batteries for them). Other guys in the group have a combination of other inexpensive action cameras, an Insta360 X3, GoPro 8, and maybe others. We’ll be collecting lots of footage, certainly. The trick will be storing and processing all those videos to make them worth sharing or revisiting.
I’m dragging an older Dell XPS13 PC with an external storage device with a 2TB M.2 drive in it. I might upgrade the internal drive in the PC to get 4TB or so of storage space (assuming the PC can fit the larger M.2 form factors). I suspect this PC won’t have the power needed to process Insta360 videos, so storing large amounts of data will be necessary, including the 8K video the new Insta360 creates.
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