Revl (YC W16): stabilized action camera

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8 pointsliseman3 comments

The view from the leaning motorcycle was awesome. I took it for granted that stabilization meant seeing it from the vantage of the rider, so seeing it from the aspect of an external viewer was a bit shocking and really cool.

What kind of storage space do you need for the recording and can you use this from a laptop?

Well, if it's 4k RAW an hour runs about 50 GB. That's of footage on high-end prosumer RED 4k gear at 24 FPS. I'm sure higher-end gear with larger CCDs and more accurate sensors will sample at a way higher rate. I've seen numbers as high as 1.5 TB an hour. I've played around with the entry level RED 4k stuff just for fun on my last-gen Core i7 and it's just fine with Avid.

It looks like it's designed just like the SteadXP[1]. In which case, it uses the gyroscopic sensors to act in tandem with whatever gimble/mount/steadycam you have, and it crops/reframes according to the movement the sensor picked up. 4k is just a marketing wank word anyway, just like megapixels, megahertz or "4G". None of those mean anything unless you know what sensors, what your workload is like and how many instructions per second you average, and what your dB loss is. Ten year old Sony cameras shooting at a quarter the resolution with ARRI lenses will easily outperform whatever you could possibly provision for $450.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091165875/steadxp-the-... -- About a year head start, which is already shipping. I'm not a patent attorney I'd be real concerned if I were the founders.

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