It's days like today where I choose the HERO10 over the Pocket 2, and for me I found the best
settings to get the best quality footage so that's what I'm going to show you in this video.
So first tip that I want to talk to you about
is filming on a really bright day and sometimes this is completely out of your control,
but if you can film on a day when it's really bright, much like today then you're gonna get
the best quality footage that you can because you just need as much light as possible,
because these little cameras have tiny sensors and they need as much help as you can give them,
so having lots of light is gonna give you the best quality that you can, in that respect.
So my next tip is shooting in 5K instead of shooting in 4K and this is going to make your
footage look a lot better because the 5K footage just looks so much it's just got much better
quality than the 4K footage and if you have a PC or a laptop that just doesn't support shooting in
5K shooting with 5K files then you can use proxies. I did a video about this a few years
ago so I'll put a link in the description and at the end of the video but you can also use
proxies if you have a lot of trouble, but otherwise then I guess it's just a case of
shooting in 4K but if you can shoot in 5K then definitely go for that option.
So contrary to what I have said previously in the past about shooting in manual with ND filters if
you don't have the time or you just can't really use ND filters and you're not using a gimbal which
is something I'm not doing at the moment because I don't have a waterproof gimbal and there isn't
one apart from the Hohem iSteady Pro 4 which is splash proof, IPX4 splash proof but anyway if you
can't use a gimbal then shooting in auto exposure is going to be your best bet because
hypersmooth stabilization doesn't work in low light and it doesn't work with slower shutter
speeds, so if you want to get the best quality in terms of the stabilization then you definitely
want to be shooting with auto exposure so that you've got that fast shutter speed.
So remember how I also recently got a 360 camera I brought my ONE X2 so I've got the ONE RS
Twin Edition which has got the 360 module and then I've got the ONE X2 and at the moment
I've got my paddleboard because I thought I'd just do some 360 footage whilst I'm on here
I haven't secured it in any way apart from it just using the tripod but that's one of the
accessories that's really useful to have and I'm definitely going to figure out a way to actually
secure it with the pole on the board but for now just kind of slotted it underneath the straps
and so if it falls in the water it's actually not that deep so I'd still be able to retrieve it but
Yeah, it’d be cool to see what 360 footage I can get whilst I'm out on the board.
Just gotta switch my battery also this is the very first time that my HERO10 has ever overheated
on me so when I was setting up everything by the car and I was pumping the board up
the camera overheated and it said it was overheating and it switched off. So
it's quite hot today and it was in the direct sunlight for quite a lot– for
quite a while so I'm not really surprised but it didn't take too long to cool down,
I think like within five minutes I switched it back on and it was absolutely fine, and since I've
been out it hasn't done it again so yeah that was the very first time that that's happened to me.
So I just want to say thanks to Outdoor Master for sending me these sponsored
products the paddleboard, the pump, which blew the board up in like seven minutes,
if I'd used the manual pump it probably would have taken me about 20 minutes, so
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So that was really fun I really enjoyed using that paddleboard, but before I go I've still got a few
more tips for you so the next one is holding the camera out quite far when you're talking to
yourself because if you hold it quite close then the background's going to be crisp and sharp and
in focus and you're just going to be a blurry mess, so definitely hold your arm out as far as
you can because the minimum focusing distance is, I don't know, I'll put it on the screen, but yeah
the closer you hold it the blurrier you're going to be so the further out you hold it the crisper
and sharper in focus you're going to be, so that's one to remember, and so that also leads me onto
sharpness. So I have tried setting the sharpness to low and medium and the other two settings high
and then highest or something, but low I find also makes the footage look quite mushy whereas medium
I know you can add the sharpness in later on but I find that even doing that doesn't really work
so setting it to medium in the camera I feel like that gives the best looking footage so again this
is just something that I've tested and found for myself so you might think differently you might
do things differently, but for me, I found I find setting the sharpness to medium in the camera to
be the best. The next thing is video performance modes and this was actually introduced in a
firmware update, I can't remember which firmware update it was but the important thing about it is
the fact that you can set your video performance based on your usage so the one that I use is the
max video performance, and that's literally going to give you the best, highest quality
video footage based on your frame rate and whether you're using slow motion and that kind of thing.
The next one is extended battery so this is going to limit the resolution that you can
use for the HERO10 so it will essentially extend the battery life so that's kind of
the trade-off between these different ones. The next one is tripod and stationary video,
so this one is going to try to cool the camera as much as possible while switching off things like
stabilization and GPS because if you're stationary on a tripod then you're not going to need those
features so that's just a really good way of trying to stop the camera from overheating. So
depending on what you're shooting and where you're shooting you're going to want to set those up, but
for me because I'm using it out and about I tend to have max video performance set on.
And then finally this one is quite subjective because it's all to do with
color correcting and color grading so everyone has a different opinion and view on this but I
personally feel like setting the color profile to flat and then color correcting it looks
better than the natural and the vibrant colour profiles
but obviously not everyone can be bothered to colour correct or colour grade footage
so I can totally appreciate that, so in that instance I feel like natural looks better because
it doesn't over saturate the footage like the vibrant color profile does and in some situations
you might think the vibrant looks good and it does but for the majority of the time I feel like
using flat and colour correcting it and colour grading it is much better than the other two, but
like I said if you can't be bothered then natural, I feel, is better, but again also subjective.
So I hope those tips have been useful to you. I've enjoyed being out on my board and doing
a different kind of video, and thanks again to Outdoor Master for sending me those products.
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discount using code TAMARA. Thanks again for watching, and catch you guys on the next video.