Ethansdad actually had the best advice. Look at the difference between my helmet cam and his both taken on the same day on the same gate drop. The quality using the HD with 60 frames per second setting is a big difference. Both are the wide angle or "fish eye" lens. your only going to buy one but its going to record tons of racing....Stuff you will probably want to watch when your old and grey. Just spend the few extra coins, its worth it. (link below) Both cameras are GoPro, mine is not the HD version and will not capture 60 frames per second.
Editing, again he is right.Unless you enjoy that kind of stuff its not necessary. You want something simple that you can chop out the unwanted stuff and it wont take all night. I would use mpeg stream cut as mentioned. editing software is fun until its time to render your project. Thats when the computer encodes your work and turns it into a CD, DVD, mpeg, ect....That takes forever. If you want to dabble in it look on your computer and see if you have "windows movie maker". Chances are your computer has it. If it does try that before spending the money on software you will rarely ever use.
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