If you have wheelie bars, coat the wheels with wheelie bar chalk.You might also want to paint a thin mark all the way around the outside edge of the tire to help view the contact patch and tire distortion.
Use a shoe marker and paint a mark on the side of the rear tire so you can watch to see if the tire is spinning. Here's a few tips for recording the launch. Since getting a car to hook good is one of the most important things to do in order to go fast, you'll likely want to film the car launching to see how the suspension is reacting. Have your Camera person shoot the starting line after your launch Stay out of the way and be safe, remember these folks driving are NOT paying attention to what you are doing, you step out in front of the car and you're going to get hurt. Drivers expect you to know what you're doing if you're up on the line, so it's up to you to pay close attention and not get run over if a car gets sideways doing their burnout. Stay out of the way of your car, and the car that is in the burnout box getting ready to do their burnout. Practice so you don't have to attempt to find these controls on the line when you need to be playing very close attention to what is going on around you. Learn how to turn the camera on, how to start and stop recording, how to operate the zoom button, etc. If you're going to be the one doing this task, get familiar with how your video camera works before you go to the track. The starting line at the drag strip isn't the safest place to be screwing around looking at the view finder of a video camera. Have your crew member review this article to help get them up to speed fast. Just like anything on a racing team, it can take some practice to get good recordings. While you may be a Pro at video taping, it's likely your new crew member that's trying to help you with this task isn't. You'll get 10 different opinions, and likely none of them will be correct. No matter how many buddy's you have watching your car launch, you're not likely going to get a very good idea of what the car is doing without video. 
A video camera may turn out to be one of your best performance investments if you use it to help diagnose what your car is doing.
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