The all GoPro models discussion thread

[R1-Jay]

Anyone recommend a place to get the best deal on a hero 4 black?

[tonyvid]

Does anyone know of a proper kit for long term mains powering a GoPro(ideally Hero2 as I have spares of those)so I can set up a timelapse? The camera will be 20ft up a pole outside.I know you can run them off the USB cable but I only have 1m cables etc and the housing would need to be drilled and then resealed which would make card removal a bit difficult!

[Craikeybaby]

If it is going to be permanently powered could you use wifi to download the files?

[MentalSarcasm]

Quick question as I'm thinking of getting a GoPro for some history stuff I'm planning next year, does it pick up sound well even from, say, 7 feet away? From the look of what it's mostly used for it's generally quite close to the person using it (attached to the front of a bike for example), wasn't sure how good it is at picking up sound from further away?

[thespannerman]

MentalSarcasm said:

Quick question as I'm thinking of getting a GoPro for some history stuff I'm planning next year, does it pick up sound well even from, say, 7 feet away? From the look of what it's mostly used for it's generally quite close to the person using it (attached to the front of a bike for example), wasn't sure how good it is at picking up sound from further away?

Depends if you need it to be fully waterproofed... Mine (Hero3+) will pick crisp sounds up from 2m away inside its 40m waterproof housing, any further and it starts to become muffled. However it picks up fantastic sounds from a distance of up to 20m when in its GoPro music housing!
All depends on what you're using it for!

D

[dave0010]

Please can anyone help. Ive just got back from holiday and whilst on holiday I used the go pro a lot. All the video I filmed on it was at 1080p and 60fps. Whilst viewing it though in the go pro studio on my macbook the videos are almost slow and freeze and jump. Please tell me this is simple something to do with the way I'm viewing the files and not the videos themselves all messed up?

The memory card if the recommend the and 64gb so shouldn't be any issue there.

[Fordo]

dave0010 said:

Please can anyone help. Ive just got back from holiday and whilst on holiday I used the go pro a lot. All the video I filmed on it was at 1080p and 60fps. Whilst viewing it though in the go pro studio on my macbook the videos are almost slow and freeze and jump. Please tell me this is simple something to do with the way I'm viewing the files and not the videos themselves all messed up?

The memory card if the recommend the and 64gb so shouldn't be any issue there.

How old is your macbook? How full is your hard drive?

Sounds like a computer issue not an issue with the video files. Do the files freeze and jump in a different place everytime you try and play them? If so, its a problem with your software or your computer. If it freezes / jumps at the same point, even using different software to playback, then it'll be something wrong with the file itself.

Gopros record in a H264 style video codec - quite compressed - so the computer has to do a fair bit of maths to uncompress it, on the fly, to do smooth playback. 60fps means its goto uncompress 60 frames a second. Any reason for shooting 60? All uk telly is shot 25, film is 24. - try and shoot some 25fps on the go pro and see how it plays back on your machine.

Even if it turns out to be your computer being a bit slow, you don't have to fork out for a new machine - you can convert the video files into a less-compressed video format. Give your computer less maths to do on playback. - the tradeoff is it takes up more hard drive space

Let us know how you get on

HTH

Edited by Fordo on Sunday 22 February 15:01

[dave0010]

I shot at that video rate after researching through youtube that was all. Computer is a fairly new macbook air. I will look at compressing the video and try from there. Im new to the Go pro software so it may take me a little while to navigate it

[MentalSarcasm]

thespannerman said:

MentalSarcasm said:

Quick question as I'm thinking of getting a GoPro for some history stuff I'm planning next year, does it pick up sound well even from, say, 7 feet away? From the look of what it's mostly used for it's generally quite close to the person using it (attached to the front of a bike for example), wasn't sure how good it is at picking up sound from further away?

Depends if you need it to be fully waterproofed... Mine (Hero3+) will pick crisp sounds up from 2m away inside its 40m waterproof housing, any further and it starts to become muffled. However it picks up fantastic sounds from a distance of up to 20m when in its GoPro music housing!
All depends on what you're using it for!

D

That's good to know.

No, definitely won't need to waterproof it, planning on filming a few history videos, I'm not a marine archaeologist so they won't be near water XD

[epom]

Hey guys, pretty basic question please. I've only just really started to use my camera (go pro hero+3). Took some videos the other night in 1080. Was intending to edit them on iPad as I find it easier but alas, I can't.
Not too well up on the go pro programme editing yet tbh. Anyhow any pointers ? Cheers.

[Craikeybaby]

An iPad is great for watching videos, but not so great for editing them, especially not 1080p ones. The GoPro software on Mac at least isn't too bad (not used it on PC, so don't know if it is the same).

[epom]

Craikeybaby said:

An iPad is great for watching videos, but not so great for editing them, especially not 1080p ones. The GoPro software on Mac at least isn't too bad (not used it on PC, so don't know if it is the same).

thanks, have been doing some try and see and getting there slowly. You tube helps also.

[thehawk]

dave0010 said:

Please can anyone help. Ive just got back from holiday and whilst on holiday I used the go pro a lot. All the video I filmed on it was at 1080p and 60fps. Whilst viewing it though in the go pro studio on my macbook the videos are almost slow and freeze and jump. Please tell me this is simple something to do with the way I'm viewing the files and not the videos themselves all messed up?

The memory card if the recommend the and 64gb so shouldn't be any issue there.

I have the same issue, on a 2011 Macbook Air. Videos are choppy at that first stage, get a bot better after conversion and are fine once they are finally exported to another format (like YouTube etc)

[Mr Gearchange]

Anybody worked out the best position for a camera for downhill MTB?
Big jumps, drops, super-steep elevation and speed all seem to be really badly represented and make stuff look pedestrian.
I've tried mounting it on top of the helmet, side of the helmet, and on a chest-mount - all of it looks unspectacular. Point is case was a ride from the weekend.

This captures the speed and size of the jump (little bit of almost audible swearing) http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397500/

But the POV looks rubbish.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397530/

Anyone got any suggestions?

[Freakuk]

Mr Gearchange said:

Anybody worked out the best position for a camera for downhill MTB?
Big jumps, drops, super-steep elevation and speed all seem to be really badly represented and make stuff look pedestrian.
I've tried mounting it on top of the helmet, side of the helmet, and on a chest-mount - all of it looks unspectacular. Point is case was a ride from the weekend.

This captures the speed and size of the jump (little bit of almost audible swearing) http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397500/

But the POV looks rubbish.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397530/

Anyone got any suggestions?

Best thing I've done on the MTB is change the position throughout the ride, bar mount (forwards) bar mount (backwards), helmet, chesty, fork leg (forwards), fork leg (backwards), seatpost (forwards), seatpost (backwards)... and so on..

[anonymous-user]

Has anyone gone and bought it me of those new £100 Go Pro's they brought out?

If so, what's it like? Video quality on par with the other GP models?

I'm thinking of buying a second action cam to accompany my Drift Ghost HD and the £100 Go Pro keeps catching my eye thanks to the price... But not if it's crap!

[Shaoxter]

NinjaPower said:

Has anyone gone and bought it me of those new £100 Go Pro's they brought out?

If so, what's it like? Video quality on par with the other GP models?

I'm thinking of buying a second action cam to accompany my Drift Ghost HD and the £100 Go Pro keeps catching my eye thanks to the price... But not if it's crap!

Very good! As a secondary cam it's perfect and an absolute steal for under £100.

[Mr Gearchange]

Freakuk said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Anybody worked out the best position for a camera for downhill MTB?
Big jumps, drops, super-steep elevation and speed all seem to be really badly represented and make stuff look pedestrian.
I've tried mounting it on top of the helmet, side of the helmet, and on a chest-mount - all of it looks unspectacular. Point is case was a ride from the weekend.

This captures the speed and size of the jump (little bit of almost audible swearing) http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397500/

But the POV looks rubbish.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397530/

Anyone got any suggestions?

Best thing I've done on the MTB is change the position throughout the ride, bar mount (forwards) bar mount (backwards), helmet, chesty, fork leg (forwards), fork leg (backwards), seatpost (forwards), seatpost (backwards)... and so on..

What's the image stability like when attached to the bike?

[Freakuk]

Mr Gearchange said:

Freakuk said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Anybody worked out the best position for a camera for downhill MTB?
Big jumps, drops, super-steep elevation and speed all seem to be really badly represented and make stuff look pedestrian.
I've tried mounting it on top of the helmet, side of the helmet, and on a chest-mount - all of it looks unspectacular. Point is case was a ride from the weekend.

This captures the speed and size of the jump (little bit of almost audible swearing) http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397500/

But the POV looks rubbish.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/397530/

Anyone got any suggestions?

Best thing I've done on the MTB is change the position throughout the ride, bar mount (forwards) bar mount (backwards), helmet, chesty, fork leg (forwards), fork leg (backwards), seatpost (forwards), seatpost (backwards)... and so on..

It's really good especially if you keep some of the bike in the shot ala fork leg as it gives a point of reference as to what the bike is doing against the terrain, I can't get to YouTube through work but have a look for 41Freak on YT and look at my channel to see some examples

What's the image stability like when attached to the bike?

[Freakuk]

Here's an example... 2 Gopro's used on this one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GmHmJP6z6I

Another MTB video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2uy01bQcA