The all GoPro models discussion thread

[TheRainMaker]

Pulse said:

Anyone able to assist?

Also, thinking about getting a 128gb card, though the Session says it can only take 64gb. Can anyone comment?

I've bought myself a suction mount for £20. Not sure if there's anything else worth looking at? My mate mentioned an external mic, but will that really be worth it/necessary?

Don't bother with the 128GB get a load of 32GB or 16GB cards, and make sure they work with the cameras (something like the SanDisk Extreme SDHC)

£20 for a mount seems very cheap, might be worth giving it a go before you go, you don't want to come back to poop footage.

Not sure the Session has a mic input tbh, you will need an external audio recorder if you want it to sound good.

[Pulse]

TheRainMaker said:

Don't bother with the 128GB get a load of 32GB or 16GB cards, and make sure they work with the cameras (something like the SanDisk Extreme SDHC)

£20 for a mount seems very cheap, might be worth giving it a go before you go, you don't want to come back to poop footage.

Not sure the Session has a mic input tbh, you will need an external audio recorder if you want it to sound good.

What's the benefit of having multiple cards? My thought process was that 128gb would be better because I'm lazy and I could maybe put it into an Android phone as well when not using the GoPro. I was looking at either the SanDisk Extreme or the Samsung equivalent (both Class 10).

£20 for the mount is for the genuine suction mount. It's £25 everywhere else, but got it from Reco Sports. Definitely plan to test it out beforehand, lots! I'll likely only do this trip to Scotland once, so worth getting it right.

[Tuna]

Pulse said:

I could do with some advice. I've just bought my first GoPro - the Session.

I understand the cheaper version now only comes with one mount, and two mounting points (curved and straight). I'd like to be able to mount in the following places as a minimum:

- Inside the car (windscreen)
- On my bike helmet

I'd also like to be able to use the following places:

- Rear/side of the car
- On my chest (or similar alternative) for hiking adventures

Plus, any other common things people use them for. I have only bought it for an upcoming road trip, but what else fun could I use it for? If there's not much that appeals, perhaps I'll sell it after the road trip.

What will I need over and above the kit I just bought?

For inside your car, take the display mount that came with the packaging the Session is sold in (the flat bit of plastic with a mount that holds the Session in the lid of the box it's sold in). With a couple of rubber bands you can attach that to your windscreen mirror and then use the other mount pieces to put the session in the right place - you basically want it high up and central in the windscreen.

Bike helmet should be covered by the stuff that comes with the session - used the curved stick on mount to fix to the top of your helmet.

For your car, a suction mount should work, though you may be able to use magnetic mounts or some bungee cords between the wheel arch and boot lid. It may pay to buy a standard camera mount (with a screw fix) and a go-pro tripod adaptor cheap on ebay/amazon to adapt the screw fix to go-pro.

I'm not convinced by chest mounts - the positioning and motion is not so good, and a view of what you're seeing isn't as interesting as you being in shot and reacting to the view.

You can get 'mount packs' from Ebay/amazon which come with 10, 20, 30 different pieces including selfie sticks (a good one is recommended - seriously, get yourself in your films), chest mounts and various stick on, clamp and grip mounts.

[Craikeybaby]

Has anyone got a good source for Hero 3 batteries? It either seems to be official GoPro ones at £13 or cheap Chinese ones at £1.30 with nothing in between.

[y2blade]

Morning all.

I use windows movie maker for my GoPro video footage without any problems, I tried putting a timelapse "block" in there but it wanted to display each "image" for 7 secs! that'd be fine if it was just a few pics for a slideshow, it would be easy to change that for all images but didn't know what to change it to.

Do any of you guys use GoPro in timelapse mode? If so how long do you have each "image" shown for when you edit the lot into a "movie"?

The footage in question is of a running event, timelapse shot at 0.5sec intervals over a 1hr time period using a chest harness.

Thank you in advance


Edit to add: I'm completely new to using timeplase mode

[Craikeybaby]

I mostly use mine in timelapse mode, but I use the GoPro software to stich the photos into a video. I tend to aim for about 30fps, so 1/30th of a second per image.

[Fubles]

"smooth" footage is usually 24 frames per second or above meaning you'll want a display time for each image of around 0.04 seconds

[red_slr]

Yep do this all the time in WMM. You need to be aware WMM does not like handling too many images so for longer TL vids you may need to do it in batches. My GP2 also does some strange stuff if you leave it on TL for too long.

You also need to wait between steps as WMM does funky stuff when you use the "select all". Give it 20-30 seconds at least to settle. Then change the time displayed. Again wait at least 20-30 seconds. I generally open task manager and wait for cpu activity to go back to zero. HTH

[y2blade]

Thank you guys

[Pulse]

I'm looking to mount my GoPro Session (with my low-profile mount) to my helmet for karting. Does anyone know the best place for it? I am thinking either the top or the side, with side being my preference as it should stick out less... But would like to hear people's views on that.

If I were to mount it on the side, the camera would be rotated 90 degrees... Can you somehow rotate how it records?

[Freakuk]

Pulse said:

I'm looking to mount my GoPro Session (with my low-profile mount) to my helmet for karting. Does anyone know the best place for it? I am thinking either the top or the side, with side being my preference as it should stick out less... But would like to hear people's views on that.

If I were to mount it on the side, the camera would be rotated 90 degrees... Can you somehow rotate how it records?

Don't know about rotating the video while recording, but you can in the editing software usually

[Craikeybaby]

I think the problem will be the aspect ratio, you can flip 180° while recording, because it will be the same shape. You will probably need a 90° arm if you want to mount on the side of your helmet. This is all based on my hero 3, the session may have a 90° feature, but I can't see how they'd do it unless they fit a bigger sensor & don't use all of it.

I've seen footage from chin mounted GoPros, so that may work.

[Shaoxter]

One of the great things about the Session is that you don't need a 90 degree arm, just rotate the camera in the housing by 90 degrees! RTFM by the way

[Tuna]

You can see about a minute into our vid, I mounted the Session 'front and center' and it's about as low profile as it's possible to get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vM3K9-Wh_g

As others have pointed out, the Session can be rotated in it's cage. It will vertically flip the film if it detects it's upside down *when you start recording*. After that it will keep the video the same way round regardless of what you do with the device.

If you've not done this before, I'd recommend 60 fps for all sports activities - gives a much better, smoother video.

[George29]

I have a GoPro hero3 black, and had it recording when I had a motorbike crash. I've copied the file over to my Mac but it won't play. I can get its maybe corrupt cause it ended abruptly, but is there a way to recover it, or view the rest of the footage?

[red997]

Hi All
dipped my toe into the GoPro market;
bought a Hero Session
very pleased with it so far - roll cage mount works well - possibly slightly too wide angle though.

Question - my car doesn't have a flat surface pretty much anywhere on the bodywork;
Any pointers on the best external suction mount for the job ?
Emphasis on best, not lowest cost.
Ta muchly !

David

[V8A*ndy]

George29 said:

I have a GoPro hero3 black, and had it recording when I had a motorbike crash. I've copied the file over to my Mac but it won't play. I can get its maybe corrupt cause it ended abruptly, but is there a way to recover it, or view the rest of the footage?

Does your other 3+Black footage play OK?

Know not much about Macs but there was an issue with quicktime, Try VLC media player.

Was your camera broken in the smash?

[GreigM]

George29 said:

I have a GoPro hero3 black, and had it recording when I had a motorbike crash. I've copied the file over to my Mac but it won't play. I can get its maybe corrupt cause it ended abruptly, but is there a way to recover it, or view the rest of the footage?

I'm presuming the camera was damaged in the crash? In which case the power would have been cut and the file is not correctly "closed". You can recover the footage, but will need windows.

First you can try this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4-video-repair-...

And if it doesn't work, this definitely will, but needs money:
http://grauonline.de/cms2/?page_id=5

[crashley]

I've got a GoPro Hero 3 which i've tried using intermittently for the last couple years but every time get utterly frustrated with the total lack longevity in the battery; at most i can only be getting 20mins of film time before batteries need swapping. it's been used under varying degrees of weather (ie warm and bloody cold). I have 3 genuine GoPro batteries. What am i doing wrong?

Cheers

[George29]

V8A*ndy said:

Does your other 3+Black footage play OK?

Know not much about Macs but there was an issue with quicktime, Try VLC media player.

Was your camera broken in the smash?

Yes the rest is fine. The camera wasn't broken as it seems to be working now, but the impact looked as if it stopped the recording (judging by the file size).

GreigM said:

I'm presuming the camera was damaged in the crash? In which case the power would have been cut and the file is not correctly "closed". You can recover the footage, but will need windows.

First you can try this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4-video-repair-...

And if it doesn't work, this definitely will, but needs money:
http://grauonline.de/cms2/?page_id=5

Brilliant, thanks! Will try that when I eventually get out of hospital