I think the GoPro Volta is great but there are definitely certain circumstances where
you're going to want to ditch it in favor of using a gimbal instead and
there are two main reasons really which I'll show you in this video.
So if you're not too familiar with the Volta it's essentially a handle, a tripod, a remote, and a
battery pack all in one. It literally charges your GoPro all day, I did a video about this a little
while ago so I'll link to it in the description and at the end of this video so you can check
it out because I used it all day for vlogging and it's perfect and if you go for the Creator Edition
because you can just buy the Volta by itself but if you go for the Creator Edition you get the
Volta, the media mod which you need if you want to attach an external microphone, and you get some
other bits and pieces other accessories in there as well so it's really really great and check out
that video for more information about it, but there are situations where you're definitely
not going to be able to use the Volta and the first one is when you're shooting in low light.
So when you're shooting in low light your shutter speed gets dropped down because it's trying to
compensate for bringing your exposure up so it's less so about shooting in low light and more so
about shooting with slower shutter speeds which is also the case if you want to use ND filters.
Complete rookie error, I didn't charge my gimbal so I can't use it,
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So as I was saying yesterday, ditching the Volta and going for a gimbal instead is going to be the
best bet if you are going to be shooting in low light or with ND filters because
of the slow shutter speed and this is because electronic image stabilization doesn't work
with slower shutter speeds it just makes the footage look really shaky and just not good,
so you need the gimbal in order to smooth out that footage.
The only downside when using a gimbal for vlogging is the fact that depending
on the gimbal that you use you might not be able to attach an external microphone
because you won't be able to use the media mod with some gimbals like the
Hohem iSteady Pro 4 which is the one that I am using at the moment.
But if you were to get something like the INKEE Falcon Plus
then you can still attach the media mod to that Gimbal and also
if you were to get something like the FeiyuTech Scorp Mini you can also
keep your media mod attached with that gimbal as well but the benefit of using something like the
Hohem iSteady Pro 4 over something like the FeiyuTech Scorp Mini is the fact that it's so
small and compact and it just fits in your bag without any issues and if you want to keep your
whole setup really small then using something like the Hohen iSteady Pro 4 is brilliant. So
I mentioned the INKEE Falcon Plus and I've done a video as to why I
wouldn't use that gimbal so I'll put a link in the description to that.
So the second reason is for getting creative shots and this is where you can attach an extension pole
to the gimbal to create jib-like shots so you've got a longer reach and you can just do more with
it, so if you were to just have the Volta you wouldn't get the movement of the gimbal that would
allow you to get those jib-like shots which is why having a gimbal is going to be a lot better.
I've got this Insta360 extended selfie stick at the moment and I just carry it with me everywhere
because it's really light and it's really small but it works really well with this gimbal as well
because the gimbal's not too heavy I wouldn't put loads of weight on it so if you had a
heavier gimbal then I wouldn't use this I'd go for something else and I'll put a link in the
description to some that I recommend but yeah for a small gimbal the Insta360 extended selfie stick
works really well because you can extend it as little or as much as you want and, yeah it's
just it's pretty good, so this is what I would use to get those shots that look like you used a jib.
The other thing that I find easier as well is having the extended selfie stick even if you're
not trying to get any kind of like jib shots or anything but you just want more controlled shots
because I feel like it's easier to move your entire body whilst holding an extended selfie
stick when you're trying to get some of these shots like if you wanted to get a replicator
sliding shot or something like that it's just I feel like there's more control when you have it
have more to grip onto rather than just having the handle of the gimbal because you can move your
body a bit more and move your arms a little bit more without jitters being introduced.
So for a bonus tip if you wanted to shoot with the Linear profile because you didn't want to
shoot wide because you get the distortion when you're in an environment where there's
lots of lines and that kind of thing it's really obvious so you might want to shoot
in Linear profile and you also might want to use Horizon Leveling but Horizon Leveling then crops
in further so you might not want that much of a crop so using a gimbal means that you
can shoot with just normal Linear mode without Horizon Leveling on and you'll get the horizon
leveling from the gimbal because obviously you've got that stabilization from the gimbal
so that's just one of the other reasons why you might want to use a gimbal as well.
What I will say about the gimbal though is when you are using it for low light shooting for the
slow shutter speeds or using it for the ND filters do keep your image stabilization
on because that's just going to get rid of any micro jitters that you might get in the footage
so leave the stabilization on and you'll get the smoothest footage possible with the gimbal.
It's worth mentioning that if you did want to vlog using the Gimbal and you can't attach an
external microphone, the microphone from the GoPro Hero 11 is actually really good so if you
didn't have a microphone to attach it wouldn't be the end of the world and you could just get
away with just having this setup; the GoPro and the Gimbal and no external microphone so
don't worry too much unless it's really, really windy but if it's quite a calm day or you're not
somewhere where there's a huge amount of noise and traffic then you're probably gonna be fine.
So yeah that's literally all I wanted to talk about in this video, so I hope it was useful.
Thank you again to FilmConvert for sponsoring this video and I've dropped links in the description to
the other videos that I mentioned and the gear that I used for this video so check
out the description but thanks for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next video.