GoPro: Recommended Video Resolution?

[Jim Doak]

I recently bought a GoPro Hero camera and tried it out for the first time yesterday. I have a couple of issues/questions:

1. I mounted the camera on my roll bar and recorded using the highest resolution (r5); however, the video looks choppy at times on my PC. What resolution are you guys using? (I read on one of the GoPro forums that recommended using the r3 resolution setting for recording motion video.)

2. While recording, the video would stop after about 3.8 GB and then begin recording onto a new video file. (The camera kept recording, it's just that it wasn't all on one continuous file but comprised of several smaller files. My drive took around 80 minutes, so I had two 3.8 GB files and one 1.1 GB file.) Anyone know why it'd stop recording one file after ~4 GB and then begin recording onto another file? (Perhaps an issue with my 32 GB SD card?)

3. I was using the partially open case to record sound; however, that pretty much sucked as far as sound quality. I'll try using the standard sealed housing next time.

Let me know if you have any ideas/recommendations.

Thanks.