HD170 Unboxing Review

Watch below as we go through the unboxing of a new HD170 from Drift Innovation. You’ll be introduced to the HD170 camera itself and also see all the mounts and accessories which come included in the box. Sit back and enjoy

HD170 Unboxing Review

Single Tracks take a look at the X170

While we do our best to provide readers with everything that they need to know about all the best helmet cameras in the market, we know that you sometimes also like some outsiders input to see what they think. There are loads of reviews of the X170 available online but non more reputable then the review of the X170 done by Single Tracks.

Read their review to see the X170 from a mountain bikers point of view by following this link: Review of the X170 Action Camera. Afterwards come browse back here to see loads more info, specs and videos on the X170 page.

Drift HD170 Ski Movie

Thanks for Pierre and his team for taking the time out of their busy schedules to head up to the slopes for an afternoon of hard skiing!

Filmed with the HD170 in full 1080p high definition

New look Drift Innovation site

Congratulations to Drift Innovation on the launch of their fantastic revamped website. The new video gallery can keep anyone entertained for ages – the video quality from the new HD170 is really something!

First Ever Helmet Cam with Night Mode

The highly anticipated HD170 Action Camera from Drift Innovation has surprised us on many levels by all the ground breaking features which it offers. On top of many other firsts in the industry, it is the first helmet camera to offer a night mode feature for filming higher quality video during the night-time and low light environments.

Have a look at the video below to see how well this action camera performs in the dark…

HD170 Action Camera

X170 now only £149.99! Save £50

You can now save £50 on the UK’s most popular helmet camera!

The X170 Action Cam from Drift Innovation has been filming sports enthusiasts’ extreme adventures for nearly a year now since it’s launch. While at the old price of £199.99, it was bought by thousands of people around Britain and even more throughout Europe and the States. Now with the retail price dropping down to just £149.99 it is surely affordable to everyone.

If you haven’t got yours yet then now is your chance! Click this link to go straight to the X170 Action Camera

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Follow the launch of the HD170, Follow Drift Innovation

Many people around the world are closely following every bit of news and press made public about the highly anticipated HD170 Action Camera from Drift Innovation. We have an easy solution for all of you, instead of trawling the net simply click through to their Facebook page and become a fan.

Click here to go through to the Drift Innovation Fan Page

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Any Jack Johnson fans? Well, he’s a fan of the GoPro HD!

Which surfer wouldn’t want to catch themselves on video while riding inside the barrel? Well Jack Johnson is no different! Here’s his latest music video to be released which is filmed using our GoPro HD Surf Hero.


GoPro HD Surf Hero

How to edit footage from the GoPro HD

There can be no doubt that the footage you can capture on the GoPro HD cameras is nothing short of amazing, but editing the footage is often a source of considerable frustration.

If you have got the latest and greatest computer to work with (e.g. very powerful quad core PC), then you will probably be OK to edit the raw footage as long as your editor can work with the mp4 format, but more moderately powered machines often struggle with the processing power required.

You could spend £1000s on upgrading your computer, but there are ways to get around the issues and we wanted to share some advice about how to convert your raw footage into the finished article.
When you use the GoPro HD, the video is recorded as mp4 using h.264 encoding. As there is a lot of data captured in HD footage, the file sizes are typically large.
Formats and containers are very confusing, but think of ‘mp4′ as an envelope / wrapper that contains data. 
The h.264 video compression standard is highly compressed for efficient playback but is less than ideal for editing as it is a ‘lossy’ format and image data is lost during compression.

One of the first things to try if your editing software refuses the raw footage is to use Quicktime Pro to save the file as a .mov. The data itself is still h.264 and you shouldn’t see any loss in quality.
If your editing software still doesn’t like it, you need to look at converting / transcoding the footage into a format that will work. 
Unfortunately, this will almost always have an impact on the quality but it doesn’t have to be too bad and you will lose far more detail / quality when uploading to the web (if you share video that way). 
The best software available to do this is currently Cineform Neoscene. This will transcode the file into a less optimised format that will then be able to be edited in almost all editing software suites. 
The quality from Neoscene is very good but be prepared for very large file sizes – the file size often increases by more than 5 times the original size.
If budgets don’t permit considering Neoscene, then we would recommend MPEG Streamclip which is an excellent free tool that works with an incredible range of file formats and will also allow you to edit 60FPS footage if you have been using the GoPro HD in that mode.
Whilst the editing options are much more limited than a full editing suite, MPEG Streamclip is excellent for trimming out parts of the raw footage that you don’t want to keep.
You can even use MPEG Streamclip to do some initial cuts and then using the ’save as’ option to save as a .mov file if your editor accepts that format – this will allow you to work with much smaller files and should improve performance. 
Unfortunately, all computer systems are slightly different and there is always a degree of testing to find out what works best for you but using Neoscene or MPEG Streamclip will definitely allow you to get the footage into your normal editing software and edit HD footage, even if you have a reasonably low spec computer. 
If you get stuck, get in touch with us and we will see what we can do to help!



GoPro HD Motorsport Hero Camera

The British Downhill Series 2010

Action Cameras is proud to be a sponsor of the British Downhill Series (BDS) 2010.

 

For 2010, Action Cameras has joined forces with the BDS team to provide their top of the range helmet camera the X170 to provide footage of the track from each event as well as a pre-tournament ‘course walk’ video.

 

This years event will be the biggest, most subscribed and most entertaining. The mix of steep slopes, high speeds and obstacles will make it an awesome series.

 

For more information about the British Downhill Series 2010 click on the logo below.

 

We support the 2010 British Downhill Series