My 11 year old twins have ben so enthralled by the clips posted by Troy, Rich and Musbjim that they sprung for the newest version of the GoPro for me so that we can make "Speedy Flicks" as they call them.
First attempt will be at the Corn Daze meeting next week in Peoria.
I'll post what we get. You guys in attendance who have experience with GoPro, I'll need your help.
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Happy B-Day and congratulations on having two devious daughters. I see the future need arising for individual iPads so they can view (or edit) your latest videos.
Roy:
In my case it is two sons, no less conniving, great kids thanks mostly to their mother. I am looking forward to opening this thing up in the next day or so and beginning to play with it.
awesome. i picked up a hearo2 motorsport version. it's the one with eh big suction cup.
it produces amazing videos, but they are HUGE file sizes.
What are you guys using for editing? GoPro has some firmware updates too you should do (search gopro forums). with the firmware - they give you some pretty neat software.
Mango:
They got me the HD Hero2 Outdoor Edition and the GoPro Suction Cup and a 32gig card for starters.
Haven't cracked the box yet but I am stoked to get started with this thing.
Kitchen remodeling is slowing me down in the fun department. Today I am cutting in the ceiling paint in the front bath, kitchen and dining area and the garage entry. Don't know a time when I've had so much fun. (Right!)
Then it's rip out the old cabinets and run the gas line and the stove ventilation system. New stuff shows up next week.
I miss the Speedy, but I'll get in a drive to Lowe's later today.
MUSBJIM and I both use iMovie on our Macs. I asked him what he used before I made my 30-minute video on the 2012 Rolex race at Daytona. Great tool.
It takes a couple of days to learn what it can do, but there are a bunch of "how-to" videos to quickly teach you what you need to know.
It seamlessly integrates both stills and video from a number of different sources, has a bunch of animation effects for stills, like the "Ken Burns" effect of sliding across a still photo to simulate video), and it's easy to add soundtracks as either background or foreground tracks. It also supports a number of different video formats.
bob - i have the LCD backpack and it crapped out 2nd time i used it. after reading - i found out about the software/hardware issue that a firmware update patches.
definitely would recommend that.
it's a fun little camera - enjoy your birthday present 
where can i see some speedy videos?
I used mine on a kite skiing trip to Great Slave Lake this past March. One thing, when you start it recording be sure its recording. I got a fair amount of footage of crap I didn't want. I was turning it off when I thought I was turning it on and vise versa. Of course it was mounted at the top of my head and I was skiing at the time. Still, a neat gadget. For those of you who don't have one they have a daily give away on the Go Pro website that you can enter to win one of everything they sell.
did you turn on the 4 LED indicators (or do you have a hero 1)
Hero 1 I believe but even then, the camera was on my head, it was windy, I was working the kite and skiing over rough terrain and I was listening to SRV on the iPod. Hard to see the lights or hear the beeps. Just got out of sync, happens.
i went for a drive with the camera mounted on my front side (in front of wheel). i kept looking over to see if it was still there. i can't imagine it mounted on my head. 
i have had no luck with my go pro. cant fiqure out when its on or off
ya - for the amount of $ they are - you'd think it would be easier to use.
