Experimenting with my GoPro camera

[SunDude]

I've just started experimenting with my GoPro Motorsports HERO Wide camera, which I mounted on my Superformance Cobra for a couple of recent drives.

So far I've been using the default settings: 512x384 resolution, LO sound. Sadly, the sound quality isn't the best so you'll need to crank it up.

For this first video, I mounted the camera on the bulkhead behind the cockpit for a drive through Gatineau Park near Canada's capital city, Ottawa. I thought this camera location would give a cool view of the actual driving and the road ahead, but the reflection of the Le Mans stripes on the windshield is a bit distracting. Also the wide-angle lens gives me a strange "sidebite" look like Ken Miles.



For this second video, I mounted the camera on the hood just in front of the windshield to give a much-racier "driver's eye view" of the action. The route this time is along the Rideau Canal to Hog's Back and then, once the slow-pokes and fire truck finally move out of the way around 8:40 , we accelerate onto the Airport Parkway.



All in all the GoPro camera is easy to use, but does anyone have any tips on how to get better results? In particular, how to improve the sound quality? And how to reduce the video filesizes without sacrificing image quality? The files are HUMONGOUS and take forever to upload to YouTube (60-90 minutes).