Concept sounds like a bit of fun. Lots of second handies for sale.... Makes me wonder if it's a use once or twice toy then it ends up in the top drawer. Any thoughts.
If you are any good with video editing then well worth it. I love mine, use it all the time. If you can't edit or creative enough to put together a vid that people would like to watch then you will just end up with hours of footage that takes space on the computer and not seen by anyone
Select to expand quoteB0wl3sy said..
If you are any good with video editing then well worth it. I love mine, use it all the time. If you can't edit or creative enough to put together a vid that people would like to watch then you will just end up with hours of footage that takes space on the computer and not seen by anyone
yep. hit the nail on the head.
Like any other photography venture -- the value of a GoPro is more about what you bring to the table than about what the camera can do. And it's a lot about whether you are doing it for your own amusement or hoping to be interesting to others.
If you just stick it in the same place as everyone else does, you might get lucky and get a one in a million gem but chances are you are just going to just get a bunch of also-ran boring shots that no one will be interested in seeing except your mom.
On the other hand, if you are willing to experiment, try all sort of different angles, mounts, conditions, etc. then your chances of it being useful are much higher -- but just remember--there are a lot of pretty darned good photographers out there these days and the bar is pretty high.
There are a thousand variations on this story, but here's one version:
A group of artists are invited for dinner by a famous chef. In greeting the photographer, the chef comments: "I love your photos, they?re wonderful, you must have a very expensive camera."The photographer doesn't reply and walks into the dining room. After dinner the photographer approaches the chef and says: "Dinner was sensational, very exquisite flavors, a true work of art, you must have a very expensive stove.?
They come in handy when analizing your riding you can pick up things that you are doing or not doing that you wouldn't notice while riding.
Does anyone know what the cheap version is like?
The one u can get in sports shops..
Cost about 149 new.anyone know how they compare?.my guess they'd do the same thing..
You guys are dead on.
I have two and use them occasionally for whatever sport is on the day. I suck at the whole editing bit (haven't really looked into it and computer is slow enough)
However I enjoy watching the stuff I do and re living it all over again.
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If you just stick it in the same place as everyone else does, you might get lucky and get a one in a million gem but chances are you are just going to just get a bunch of also-ran boring shots that no one will be interested in seeing except your mom.
I see more and more Aussies spelling this.
What's wrong with you people? We are not Americans.
definitely worth getting one Rolls. I bought my hero black 3+ back in December and have been using it on a weekly basis. One this i would say is be prepared for paying another $250 in mounts. So far i have got the surfboard, headband, car suction mounts and the floaty back door.
The black 3+ has a far better battery life then the existing models. Standby last for about 3 hrs and u can film for a good one and a half hours before the battery dies.
i have done heaps of **** with mine but its only really worth while if you can make something decent out of it. The gopro software is great for beginners which is where i started and has everything you need however final cut is also really decent.
The great thing about it is the resolution & quality are super awesome and you can put it anywhere. On your kite when your out on a session or on the outside of the car when your going around the track at 200kmph. **** i;ve even just put it on the dogs collar,
next step is to buy a drone copter and put it on the bottom and get some fottage that way.//
Select to expand quoteUnhook3d said..Robbo2099 said...
If you just stick it in the same place as everyone else does, you might get lucky and get a one in a million gem but chances are you are just going to just get a bunch of also-ran boring shots that no one will be interested in seeing except your mom.
I see more and more Aussies spelling this.
What's wrong with you people? We are not Americans.
Maybe it's us, how many u's are in the word Mother ?
Unless of course your saying Mutha ***ka, and then in that case, they're getting it wrong
What I want to know is, Who has the time or inclination to watch any of your video's?
I saw a guy down at the beach recently with a helmet mounted go-pro, body dragging a 100mts down wind, then walking back up, repeat... Oh how we laughed.
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What I want to know is, Who has the time or inclination to watch any of your video's?
I saw a guy down at the beach recently with a helmet mounted go-pro, body dragging a 100mts down wind, then walking back up, repeat... Oh how we laughed.
all seems a bit egocentric doesn't it
The only thing I can think of would be if you were a geriatric and you can't remember anything
but then you wouldn't remember that it was you anyway
if people really want to watch me kite you'll need to be on a cray boat or a plane, very few venture offshore to the good spots 
I would love one..
How great a learning tool it would be..
Defiantly would have to turn editing into a hobby to make it even half enjoyable to any one else though.
Still trying to subliminally insert the idea into the kids heads that they need one for xmas so (I can borrow it) and not cop the crap if it doesnt get used lol
I think to get the most out of any sporting / outdoor situation, you need at least 4 cameras going at once. One on the board, one on the kite looking back, one behind you and one looking at you from a distance. And of course HOURS of spare time editing it all together.
I think the human memory is a way better option.
Absolute, unbreakable rules for video footage of any kind.
1. No video should be longer than 3 minutes (unless you have a real story to tell).
2. No shot should be longer than 10 seconds. 4-5 seconds is even better
3. You need 3-4 different angles/points of view in each video. It's ok to have a main view and 2-3 short cutaways.
4. Only ever use perfect footage. Fogged? Shakey? Water drops? Chuck it.
5. Avoid helmet camera at all costs (unless used sparingly and you can keep your head still for the duration of a shot).
6. Get into the action straight away. Don't waste the first minute of your video with fake titles and credits and atmosphere shots. 10-15 seconds max.
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Can anyone suggest a good free/cheap editing program for PC's?
The free editing software from GoPro (Cineform) is good enough for most editing, extracting single shots, slow motion, titles , transitions that sort of thing, even has templates for those that are a little challenged with the whole editing process.
There are many Reasons why you should use the GoPro editing soft wear, have a read of this info from their web page, it explains it all
Your GoPro Hero camera is a unique device. It records high definition video that looks great, but yet creates a very small data file. The way it does this is through creating a video clip that is highly ?compressed?. Image compression is used in many types of computer and digital device images like JPEG files from your mobile phone or camera. Most DSLR cameras that shoot high definition video as well as many other video cameras create similar files.
When you edit your video clips together in your favorite video editing software (your chosen application could be anything from Windows Movie Maker or iMovie up to Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro, to name a few), part of your computer's job in playing the footage back is the ?decompression? (you might think of it as ?reconstruction?) of the video clip so you can see the full frame when playing and editing the video clips. Your camera's files are easy enough to play back in most media players, but cutting them together in an editing application or altering their color or other characteristics can stress your computer, and give you less than ideal results.
Converting your camera footage to GoPro CineForm files makes a copy of your original footage that results in a much larger file size (make sure you have enough hard drive space), but they actually improve the responsiveness of your computer and your editing software because the files are designed to work with your computer much more efficiently than MPEG4.
With GoPro 3D content, conversion to a GoPro CineForm file keeps the two clips that provide the ?left eye? and ?right eye? view in one file, allowing you to adjust alignment, and you can simply edit them like any other video file.
Inside GoPro's CineForm Studio, you can make color, framing, or 3D alignment or viewing adjustments to your GoPro CineForm files, and these changes will be reflected in the same footage inside your editing software. GoPro CineForm files preserve image and color quality better than your camera's original MPEG4 files through any color adjustments you make during editing. This leads many users to keep GoPro CineForm Studio open while they're editing their footage in another application as they can click back and forth between applications, making adjustments to their footage in Studio and clicking back to their editing application to continue to cut their clips together while the adjustments they made are updated immediately upon their return to editing.
The way GoPro CineForm Studio makes these changes to your GoPro CineForm clips is by saving your changes made in the ?Edit' interface of the software as ?metadata'. You may have heard this term before and the typical explanation is ?It's data about the data...? A better way to define it is that when you make framing or color or 3D alignment changes in Studio, you are saving a ?description' of how to play the video back, and not actually altering the clip itself. Your video editing application simply plays the footage back with your adjustments, even if you made them during an editing session by moving between your editing software and GoPro CineForm Studio.
The power of using metadata is being able to make changes and then change your mind without actually affecting the original footage in a way that would affect the image quality. You can always go back to the original footage and start over if you need to, because no matter what you adjusted in Studio, it can be reversed, reset, or revised without affecting the original image until you're ready to export the finished video.
Select to expand quotedeanrobi said..WillyO said..
Can anyone suggest a good free/cheap editing program for PC's?
The free editing software from GoPro (Cineform) is good enough for most editing, extracting single shots, slow motion, titles , transitions that sort of thing, even has templates for those that are a little challenged with the whole editing process.
There are many Reasons why you should use the GoPro editing soft wear, have a read of this info from their web page, it explains it all
Your GoPro Hero camera is a unique device. It records high definition video that looks great, but yet creates a very small data file. The way it does this is through creating a video clip that is highly ?compressed?. Image compression is used in many types of computer and digital device images like JPEG files from your mobile phone or camera. Most DSLR cameras that shoot high definition video as well as many other video cameras create similar files.
When you edit your video clips together in your favorite video editing software (your chosen application could be anything from Windows Movie Maker or iMovie up to Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro, to name a few), part of your computer's job in playing the footage back is the ?decompression? (you might think of it as ?reconstruction?) of the video clip so you can see the full frame when playing and editing the video clips. Your camera's files are easy enough to play back in most media players, but cutting them together in an editing application or altering their color or other characteristics can stress your computer, and give you less than ideal results.
Converting your camera footage to GoPro CineForm files makes a copy of your original footage that results in a much larger file size (make sure you have enough hard drive space), but they actually improve the responsiveness of your computer and your editing software because the files are designed to work with your computer much more efficiently than MPEG4.
With GoPro 3D content, conversion to a GoPro CineForm file keeps the two clips that provide the ?left eye? and ?right eye? view in one file, allowing you to adjust alignment, and you can simply edit them like any other video file.
Inside GoPro's CineForm Studio, you can make color, framing, or 3D alignment or viewing adjustments to your GoPro CineForm files, and these changes will be reflected in the same footage inside your editing software. GoPro CineForm files preserve image and color quality better than your camera's original MPEG4 files through any color adjustments you make during editing. This leads many users to keep GoPro CineForm Studio open while they're editing their footage in another application as they can click back and forth between applications, making adjustments to their footage in Studio and clicking back to their editing application to continue to cut their clips together while the adjustments they made are updated immediately upon their return to editing.
The way GoPro CineForm Studio makes these changes to your GoPro CineForm clips is by saving your changes made in the ?Edit' interface of the software as ?metadata'. You may have heard this term before and the typical explanation is ?It's data about the data...? A better way to define it is that when you make framing or color or 3D alignment changes in Studio, you are saving a ?description' of how to play the video back, and not actually altering the clip itself. Your video editing application simply plays the footage back with your adjustments, even if you made them during an editing session by moving between your editing software and GoPro CineForm Studio.
The power of using metadata is being able to make changes and then change your mind without actually affecting the original footage in a way that would affect the image quality. You can always go back to the original footage and start over if you need to, because no matter what you adjusted in Studio, it can be reversed, reset, or revised without affecting the original image until you're ready to export the finished video.
thanks mate!
Yeah I've just bought the yumcha cheapie per coast flyers post.. If I like it I'll get the humdinger pro with all the toppings. What are the best mounts for KS?
Is it worth buying the gopro hero 3 black ( with short battery life , better pic ) or the gopro hero 3 silver with almost double battery life?
Select to expand quotekiter77 said...
Is it worth buying the gopro hero 3 black ( with short battery life , better pic ) or the gopro hero 3 silver with almost double battery life?
Black 3+ has longest life
Select to expand quoteGorgo said..
Absolute, unbreakable rules for video footage of any kind.
1. No video should be longer than 3 minutes (unless you have a real story to tell).
2. No shot should be longer than 10 seconds. 4-5 seconds is even better
3. You need 3-4 different angles/points of view in each video. It's ok to have a main view and 2-3 short cutaways.
4. Only ever use perfect footage. Fogged? Shakey? Water drops? Chuck it.
5. Avoid helmet camera at all costs (unless used sparingly and you can keep your head still for the duration of a shot).
6. Get into the action straight away. Don't waste the first minute of your video with fake titles and credits and atmosphere shots. 10-15 seconds max.
8. Slow-motion shots of tricks are only OK once or twice, and for no more 2 seconds.
Select to expand quotepsychojoe said..
I've got the $50 camera
it's pretty cool...you know....for the money
What? Where?
