Another Video

[mrondeau]

Thought I'd try a different view point with two bumper cams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoSNBaoE0w

[ttweed]

Wow, Mark, when you are driving flat out in a 944, I guess you can break the time barrier! You went so fast you landed back in Jan. 2, 2008 on that lap!

If you open a plain text editor and save a file named "tag.txt" to the root directory of your memory card that looks like this (subbing current date and time characters, of course), you can change that date display:

[date]
2010/10/20 15:28:00

Or alternately, I have found you can remove it in post-processing using the freeware Logoaway or Timestamp plugins in Virtualdub software.
The Timestamp plugin site is here.
Virtualdub software is here.
It does a pretty nice job, and you can also apply a 4:3 resize filter at the same time to eliminate the stretched width the keyfob camera induces by saving the video at 720 pixels when the CCD mode is actually 640. Notice how WIDE the #48 car appears in your video at about 3:00 into it? That is because the camera is stretching the width from 640 pixels to 720 when it saves the file (see this explanation.) Alternately, you can just upload your 720x480 file to YouTube with the tag “yt:stretch=4:3” to correct the stretched width.

HTH,
TT

[mrondeau]

Tom,

Thanks! The Chinese to English instructions that come with the camera are less than helpful.

[mrondeau]

Tom,

I was able to change the date on one of the cameras, but the other one stubbornly refuses to get modern and will not leave 2008 without a fight. What did I expect for $5???