To the GoPo Gurus - what is the best setting for car footage
To the GoPo Gurus - what is the best setting for car footage
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XB70

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2,494 posts

225 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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Can anyone confirm the best setting to use where a gopro is mounted externally to a car?

Will be used for our passes trip tomorrow

Many thanks in advance

Dave 500

7,882 posts

271 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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It depends hehe

What are you going with the footage after?

How big is your memory card?

How many cards do you have?

XB70

Original Poster:

2,494 posts

225 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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Dave 500 said:
It depends hehe

What are you going with the footage after?

How big is your memory card?

How many cards do you have?
- Two day trip, one 32gb Class 10 but will bring laptop to offload the images/footage
- Will try and put into a movie etc but since it will be years before I am back there, wanted to make sure that I have the best/optimal source material to work from

Cheers

Dave 500

7,882 posts

271 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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Settings I would use

1080 25FPS
FOV 1080P wide
11MP wide
PAL

Should give you about 4.5 hours of video on a 32G card (battery will only last 2)

Format the card in the camera before you start (or tonight).

smile





XB70

Original Poster:

2,494 posts

225 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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Dave 500 said:
Settings I would use

1080 25FPS
FOV 1080P wide
11MP wide
PAL

Should give you about 4.5 hours of video on a 32G card (battery will only last 2)

Format the card in the camera before you start (or tonight).

smile

Thanks

I have the pile of items in front of me and not sure that I am going to be able to bring the laptop (beginning to think I should have bought a netbook instead of an Asus Transformer since could have cross-loaded data to a netbook)

What setting would you reduce to try and eeek out a bit more footage time from the 4.5 hours?

Thanks again

Dave 500

7,882 posts

271 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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720 25fps will give you 7 hours of footage.

The footage will still look good its just the field of view will be reduced a bit.

smile

XB70

Original Poster:

2,494 posts

225 months

Friday 28th September 2012
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Dave 500 said:
720 25fps will give you 7 hours of footage.

The footage will still look good its just the field of view will be reduced a bit.

smile
Thanks - may go with that to have footage at the expense of FOV

Just trying to download itn files to the TomTom now (it appears but I cannot figure out if it is actually working - guess I find out in a about 12 hours)

As I look around the table, it looks like someone did a smash and grab on Maplins - electronics, leads, chargers etc everywhere