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Tips on making my gopro footage not look bad?

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dtwizzle
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Hey there, I was wondering what would make my gopro footage look better, anything from changing something in the settings or something different about how I upload it to my computer. Currently I am using a Hero 3 silver.

Also if anyone knows how to permanently turn off the blue blinking light that is constantly on thatd be helpful

thanks
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Turd.Ferguson
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wrong forum, but basically dont use a go pro
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JahLiam
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Check out media and arts forum, but I'm pretty sure you can stabilize the image somehow, I've seen some pretty good quality go pro edits
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Espen519
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op needs to get better at skiing, them youll get good footage. just kidding, i have no clue L0L
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mammothpunks
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Pressing the button on the side of the gopro will turn the WIFI (blue light) off.
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Theskiingguy
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copy and paste of what I said in a diff thread..
"lens gets cleaned before every shot, camera is in protune, and lots of color correction. Stuff on the lens makes any shot look nasty, protune basically triples the quality, and color correction makes every color "pop". So when combined with shooting 1080p, 1440p, and 2.7k, you can get some very similar results.
Sure they might tweak their own camera software very little and use high-tech color correction software, but you can still get very similar results but doing the following and learning how to color correct."

Also conform the footage using MPEG stream clip to whatever works best in your software, IE for Final cut pro 7 you do apple pro ress 422. The higher the frame rate, the lower the actual quality is because it isn't able to get as crisp images with taking more frames. Soooo if you're SUPER concerned about quality, shoot in 24 fps or 30fps, but really having a high frame rate is nice so I suggest it
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Pozzy
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Gotta make sure your thumb is half covering the lens too
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perryhunter
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Yeah right! Also you can see more tips in videos and art galleries. Sometimes, good output will really depend on your medium.
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MitchT
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1. Mount the camera to a stick or old cut down ski pole and film with the camera upside down (for stablility).
2. The blue blinking light is the wifi light so hold down the button and turn it off....
3. Shoot in 60FPS 720 P (works well majority of time).

Also please upload your next edit with said GoPro to NS for us to...critique.
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MLJ
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MitchThatchercritique.


He.he.he
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nutz.
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Here ya go, Abe makes killer stuff with a gopro

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/596701/GoPro-DSLR-Final-Cut-Workflow-Tutorial-here-

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/601464/GoPro-DSLR-Color-Grading-Workflow-Tutorial-here

Just search his channel and threads and there should be some other stuff as well
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Lou.
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Stable footage (either some kind of tiny glidecam/steadicam or just a ski pole and a steady hand)

Protune

Some type of external audio (literally anything is better than the gopro audio. You can just ski around 1 day with an iphone collecting stock sounds of people sliding rails and landing and then just put it in your edit.)

Color grading (thats all practice and using the correct software)
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dtwizzle
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Thanks guys, I know not using a go pro would be a good idea but since I got it for free and I am currently saving all income towards a car you have to understand I can't exactly use anything else. I would like to be able to upload a clip to the forum but I really cant because theres nowhere to do it. I'll post a couple of them in a youtube video I guess just to show the quality.
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dtwizzle
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Also im aware of the wifi button but mine never will stay off.. I mean I hold it down and it stop blinking for a minute or two then just keeps blinking again thus draining my battery.
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WyattShapperd
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Even though its kind of a hassle, take the battery out when the blue light wont go away and then put it back in
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linus_deboss
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what's protune? sorry I'm a noob with the whole filming thing
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Lou.
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SkiingAintCrimewhat's protune? sorry I'm a noob with the whole filming thing


It's the gopro equivalent of raw. When the gopro takes footage it slightly compresses it so that it doesn't take up too much room. Anyway most people dont heavily grade and correct their gopro footage. But when you put it into protune it keeps every last pixel It takes, so it makes for slightly bigger file sizes but it gives you upped quality and also further control while color correcting.

Sparknote: Protune is just a way to up quality on the gopro and give you every last pixel for further control of colors in post. It's a setting deep in the gopro. Just look it up.
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linus_deboss
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Lou.It's the gopro equivalent of raw. When the gopro takes footage it slightly compresses it so that it doesn't take up too much room. Anyway most people dont heavily grade and correct their gopro footage. But when you put it into protune it keeps every last pixel It takes, so it makes for slightly bigger file sizes but it gives you upped quality and also further control while color correcting.

Sparknote: Protune is just a way to up quality on the gopro and give you every last pixel for further control of colors in post. It's a setting deep in the gopro. Just look it up.


thx, read the whole thing, spark note was still nice tho haha! I don't own a gopro, I usually film with a canon 60D standard objective, but some friends do, so I just wondered how they could improve their footage
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