Why I use Premiere

I'm purely a hobbyist with absolutely no aspirations of going pro.  When I started recording my track time on camera, I found that the "consumer" level software (think: iMovie, etc) just wasn't powerful enough to do what I wanted.  Specifically: providing the software with multiple camera angles as well as a tertiary source of sound.  Consumer level video cameras are just fine for recording the video I want, but they're incapable of dealing with the amplitude of sound at the race track.  So the results sound like static, but it's in reality just the camera clipping the incoming noise.  A digital sound recorder, on the other hand, can handle it.  So: each track session is 2 cameras' worth of AVCHD files as well as a big *** WAV file.  Muscling that around in iMovie and the like was always challenging.  A pro NLE on the other hand?  Easy peasy.
The basic set up in-car: I have a harness bar attached to the seatbelt mounting points on the B-pillars.  On said harness bar, I also have 2 Sony digital HandyCams (they're going to become GoPro Hero3 units soon).  One pointed forward, and the other towards the rear.  I start them and the sound device (Roland R-09) recording, then clap once as a sync noise.
Editing is simple.  Mark each vid where the clap happens.  Mark the WAV file in the same spot.  Put them on the timeline together, and sync by marker.  Shrink the rear view down to 40%, horizontally flip it so it looks like a rear-view mirror, crop the bottom by 33%, and reposition it up and out of the way.  Do some quick cutting, and voila.  Track video.
From yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zPjNBZyyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNNVhwrrnc

Steven L. Gotz wrote:
On the other hand, if telemetry data is also going to be shown, perhaps racing fans would want to see everything they can possibly see as clearly as possible, in which case, I get it.
One of the challenges I have is that I am, often times, one of the quickest guys out there at those events.  Therefore, the rear view is basically: the car I just passed receding into the horizon fairly quickly.  Where the rear view camera comes into play is when I'm not the fastest guy out there, and someone roars up on my backside.
I'm not going to follow the suggestion and mask the mirror.  Ain't happenin'.  More work than it's worth and will significantly increase the export times for no real gain (IMHO).  What I am going to do is crop some of the top of the rear view, so that I can push it up closer to the top of the front camera's image.  Then it'll be out of the way.
And yes, the idea is to get telemetry data on-screen.  I figured out what the problem is with my latest attempt (smart phones only use a 1Hz GPS, which is WAY too slow for the speeds) and hope to fix it by the time I hit the track next.

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