Ride to work

cheers for the video tips tynan, i've edited the youtube link as you suggested, still seems like vimeo wins though...

Adding &fmt=18 will take you to a better quality version - but if the clip you uploaded was poor quality then this will do nothing.

Incidentally if you upload HD, you can view it by adding &fmt=22 to the address.

Yes, Vimeo is better.

just had my fish eye lens delivered to my desk today so will try it with that

It will help a lot, but remember that what we perceive as speed is usually the shaky, rattling, vibrating look, smooth stuff out until it is perfectly smooth - as if you were gliding on air - and everything looks a lot slower - it's a trade off.

am filming in HD but its on a lumix lx3 so not a decicated video camera... will try as many of your other tips as possible, what motion tracking software do you use?

I thought the Lumix does HD (720p) ?

I don't know about shutter speed, you might be able to set it ?

I use After Effects' motion tracker and occasionally the free iStabilize (Mac OS X only), but if you are on a PC just search around for 'video stabilizer'.