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A.Eberhard
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Does anyone notice this, but when you watch Gopro footage even though it's either in 720p or 1080p it has just a strange look to it. When I compare it to my hv30 footage you can really see the difference.
Although when you watch the video on the gopro site the video quality is so much better. How can I get my footage to look like that?
Dec 17 2010 6:06PM
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A.Eberhard
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Bump it up.
Dec 17 2010 8:10PM
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TheGreen
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Color correction, post production, maybe a polarizing filter or something, shooting in nice conditions, all of that helps getting better looking footage..
Dec 17 2010 8:14PM
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Lemuel
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I find that shooting in overcast produces the clearest and best quality video. But you are definitely right, the footage looks a ton better on the website.
Dec 20 2010 9:31PM
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grilledsteezeyo
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mess around with the colors in editing(like color correction, adding or taking away contrast, saturation, and things like that)hopefully you'll find a solution that gets your footage to where you want it, you'll be surprised in how it might change. Also adding vignette can add a nice look to your shot, but don't over do it.

heres a little example:
Dec 20 2010 10:52PM
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[-mvee-]
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color correction and brightness and contrast on final cut is what i use and im happy how all my footy has turned out so far
Dec 21 2010 10:27AM
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deleted2
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I'm also fairly certain alot of the videos on the website are not only shot withe a go pro...
Dec 21 2010 12:54PM
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family_vacation
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I think that go pros have an odd way of showing motion. Nothing will change that.
Dec 21 2010 8:40PM
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abek
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i am 100% positive every video on the gopro website was shot entirely on a gopro - the same gopro you can buy online or at the store. end of story
Dec 22 2010 4:34AM
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A.Eberhard
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Yeah the color correction works well, but I find on a blue bird day the footage just has this look that I can't get rid of.
Dec 22 2010 3:07PM
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KarmaInitiative
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thats probably the super wide angle
Dec 22 2010 6:21PM
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Lemuel
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What about shooting at night? All my footy came out grainy as hell the other night shooting urban.
Dec 22 2010 6:27PM
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A.Eberhard
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Well it's probably just not enough light?
Dec 22 2010 6:33PM
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eheath
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It's not a magic camera...
Dec 22 2010 6:35PM
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Lemuel
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Well, would you like to explain to me why it comes out grainy in the dark instead of being an asshole? Sorry I'm not Mr. Camera pro.
Dec 22 2010 8:00PM
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abek
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It's grainy in teh dark because of the way the software works on the camera. It's a fixed lense so the aperture cannot change. The only thing that can change really is going to be the iso because the shutterspeed is fixed in the video pretty much. higher ISO means more light, but more grain at the same time. It's made to keep the video at a certain light level-ish so it will automatically crank the iso up at the cost of clarity
Dec 22 2010 8:30PM
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[-mvee-]
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i was about to film a few shots with my gopro hd last night but now im glad i didnt waste my time. i didnt think it would handle the low light
Dec 22 2010 9:53PM
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Broseph_Stalin
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looks like we have a person who likes to write bold statements to seem like hes in-the-know now dont we.
Dec 22 2010 10:16PM
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Lemuel
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Thank you. I have noticed that the camera seems to take really good footage in overcast and cloudy conditions. Last year I used 720p at 30 fps the every time, and there was a major difference in the quality between different lighting conditions, and the one day it was snowing was when the footy was the highest quality. I have noticed the graininess last year while night skiing, but it wasn't nearly as bad, but we did not have a ton of light on our urban mission.
Dec 23 2010 12:07AM
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A.Eberhard
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Yeah today I really fooled around with some footage I got and made it look a lot better.

Dec 23 2010 5:12PM
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