As always, Thanks Mark.
Flexibed is produced by Hobby Innovations. http://www.hobbyinnovations.com/
It's their newer product. Their older product, Vinylbed, was used on the first two iterations of the layout. Flexibed is a medium density vinyl foam. It's quite flexible, absorbs sound well and glues well with Liquid Nails or other structural adhesive. You don't need to slice it to bend it around most corners. They make several thicknesses and solid sheets for yards and under switches. Vinyl bed was made out of vinyl granules and was harder to cut and form than Flexibed, which cuts easily with a utility knife.
Ross bed is a rigid urethane foam. In other words it's quite different than Flexibed. It is molded to conform to all of the Ross products. The reason I mixed the two products was the extra time it takes to fit and trim the Hobby Innovations product to fit around all the switches, but Ross bed was too expensive to do the 300+ feet of track I had so I compromised. I put the Ross product under all the switches and Flexibed under everything else. I used the thinner Flexibed product (1/4) since it conformed perfectly with Ross product so there was not height differences at the interfaces. You have to trim the Ross bed in some situations depending on what side of the switch your switch machines lies.
I'd probably go that way again if had to do it over (never... no... oh please... not that!!).
I'm using the iPhone 5s for most of the pictures and it works just fine. The movies also come from that phone. I had a 4 and the pictures weren't worth publishing. My son in law has a GoPro camera for his skiing movies. He's going to lend it to me so I can shoot engineer's point of view movies. The GoPro produces a very nice HD quality image. I have an iPhone app to control the camera from my phone while shooting. Now that all the tracks are again open, that movie should be coming along soon.
I went looking for movie editing software only to find that I already had it on my HP. Microsoft Movie Maker is packed in the machine and gives basic editing, labeling, effects to put together acceptable YouTube movies. I was able to easily combine several shots into one.
