I recently brought a JVC MG77 HDD camcorder.

Primary function is to take video of the little 1+1 later on.

But I want to use it on the track as well However, when I mount it to the car , using a magic arm clamp on to my rear strut - it refuses to take anything with G force involved. When I brake and accelerate, it will complaint and shut down. I have search this topic in the camcorder forum and resulted the same finding. Is there any HDD video camera able to do such function? I think the reason of recording failure is the vibration (or the G force) getting the writting needle to go bananas.... I think it will be worse with direct DVD burning video cam right?? I also tried to switch off the drop mode but it is no use.

I had no such problem before with DV tape recorders.

I have a solution though - I brought a fast (SanDisk Extreme III 2GB SD card) memory card and use it to record. Then transfer the video to the HDD after each session. No fuss there I think

Advice welcome. Or you discover a HDD video cam can do the job - that is the ones with RAM that store memory during vibration - then let me know. But I think during track time - the job for the hard disk will be demanding. haha.

Anyway thanks for your advice in advance.

 

I have seen track videos taken with them small mount cams but I have no idea how they set them up.
I have seen track and street videos from hand held and in car mont cams with no probs in video only when they wreck!

 

Dominion,

Are they MPEG-4 camcorder or are they hard disk ones. I search the net a bit again. It seems to be in JVCs and it seems to be cured by using a SD card.

The person I saw posting is using a suction up on windows, not a lighting arm mount to a strut like me.

 

i have that cam, and when doing anything vidorouse i have the same problem and am forced to use the SD card

i need a mount though, do you know of any good places to get one

 

Since you are American, you should go for your own product.

Stickypod

www.stickypod.com

 

HDD's & any vibration will always incompatible.

You have to go with tape or a solid state RAM.

 

No one had any success???

I guess it is a right decision to get that 20Mb/s SD card with 2GB memory

 

Here's the setup I have that works perfectly:





My setup clamps to the child safety seat anchors, which are nice and solid. I use a Sony miniDVD camcorder; it doesnt skip and it stays stable. I just lean the passenger seat down so it isn't in the picture.

 

Yup JVC's are great and the ones I have seen are tape.

Whitehot's got it. DVD is the best way to get it from cd to pc fast.

 

I thought DVD burning are more subject to vibration due to the G forces.

In terms of transfer - the HDD are the fastest and you can work on the clip via USB to the computer - no need to download.

I will report back when I have my 2Gb SD card.

 

Sweet!