Poor man 4k Ultra High Definition UHD action camera

[Val]

Poor man 4k Ultra High Definition UHD 2.5k action cameras dual set up.

I hate to spend money for electronics. Its all made in China anyway. My poor man cameras project cost around £100 for two cameras including cables  :eek

My £60 Firefly 6S finally has arrived after 3 weeks from China.

http://www.gearbest.com/action-cameras/pp_239152.html

I had old clone of the clone £20 1080p one too. So here is my black box permanent two camera set up.

The only expensive bit is PDM60, but you can use a relay and a fuse.

I have mounted the 4k camera in front and the other on the back.

It is permanet mounting. Have used soldering iron to make a nice holes in the waterproof cases for both so that I can plug USB cables. Than sealed with some silicone.

Both cables are zip tied and go under the seat where I have two ports USB socket mounted and connected to the PDM60. After I turn the ignition on PDM69 gives me nice 7 seconds delay before turning the power for the USB socket on.

Both cameras are set up in DVR mode, means you turn power they start recording, turn off power stops recording.

Kind of black box set up. Both have 32Gb cards and are set up to record 5 minute clips in never ending cycle mode.

Because the cameras are sealed I use laptop to connect and download videos:



Back camera:



Front camera Firefly 6S:





Now I need to find simple 4k UHD video editor. Apparently Movie Maker does not supports higher resolution 

Edit: found free brilliant 4k UHD video editor. This one works out of the box after installation no messing needed.

Shortcut video editor: http://www.shotcut.org/bin/view/Shotcut/Download

There is no help though  :eek

Here is all you need to know for simple editing:

File Open -> drag on timeline.

Click Save to save your new project.

Drag the vertical marker to go somewhere.

Click L to play. Click L again to play faster.
Click J to play backwarsd. Click J again for faster.
Click K to stop playing.

Click S to make a cut.

Here is what I do to remove some unwanted part:

Click S to make a cut in the begining of the unwanted part. Go to end of the unwanted part by playing it and click K to stop there. Than Click S again. Right click mouse pointing somewhere over unwanted part and choose "Lift". You will see brown gap where unwanted part was. Again right click and choose "Remove".

Now you have one wanted part and next to it your next wanted part. Drag any of the two and make them overlap a little. This way you create smooth transition between parts to avoid jumping.

After you've finished all editing click Save to save the porject.

Click "Encode" tab and you will see:




Click encode file and chose a name say "MyCut1.mp4".

Go drink some tea or cofee. Even short encoding will taje some time like 30 minutes.

Enjoy your ultra high definition UHD 4k new video 

This high resolution 2886x2160 makes 6 minutes video 1.4Gb  which takes 230 minutes to upload on youtube, because youtube creates 8 videos to cover all lower resolutions too.

Links with sample 4k videos to follow after 240 minutes :lol

[Val]

Here the sample video finally has uploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_BABNgNZxA

and I am not impressed. It shakes like hell because the camera is mounted on the mirror. Need to find better mounting point...

[slimwilly]

What ???????????

[Val]

Fixed that for me:

Poor man 4k Ultra High Definition UHD action camera

The disappointment here is the resolution. After looking at the recorder files it appears that Firefly 6S DOES NOT have 4k, it has:

2880 x 2160- 24fps
2.5k - 30fps
1080p - 30/60 fps