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- Have you ever watch a GoPro launch video
or a commercial and then gone out
and tried to recreate it
and looked back at your content and been like,
something's wrong?!
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How do they make these incredible cinematic shots
and mine looks trash, mine looks utter rubbish.
Today, in this video,
I wanted to share with you five simple tips
on how you can create more cinematic GoPro content.
Huge shout out and thank you
to the sponsor of today's video, Epidemic Sound.
Because without their support
this video would not be possible
so let's get stuck into it.
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Now I'm not gonna bury you in settings.
I'm not going to give you every single option
to create cinematic sequences.
I'm just going to give you one to play around with,
'cause I feel like when you are making that step
from just some fun vacation content
to what I would call more professional GoPro content,
start simple.
Baby steps.
So the reason why I'm choosing to use 2.7K
at a 120 frames a second,
as my preferred outdoor cinematic sequence setting,
is because it gives us the best of both worlds,
in my opinion.
Now a lot of filmmakers may say
that the most cinematic setting or frame rate is 24fps.
Sure, when we talk about editing later in this video
we'll use a 24 frames per second timeline.
But to capture the content,
let's set our camera up exactly like this.
Having the best of both worlds
means using the largest frame size
while it's capturing the highest frame rate.
And on the GoPro Hero 9, that's 2.7K
with a wide digital lens.
Now I also like to use Superview
as a digital lens, which bumps the frame rate down
to 60fps, but in my opinion both 120
and 60 frames per second are perfect
for capturing cinematic slow motion,
as shown in the opening montage.
The next little tip on settings is
to use the shortcuts feature.
Now this is only available on the GoPro Hero 9
and I would recommend setting your camera up like this
if you do have a Hero 9.
There's four shortcuts, screen shortcuts
that I like to put up on the screen.
That's the EV composition, the color,
the access to the ISO and the digital lens.
Now the reason why I like to have these
as one touch shortcut is because
when our lightning conditions, or our environment changes,
we can dial in different features
to suit the shooting conditions.
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Tip number two is to shoot flat.
It's super simple.
But using flat as opposed to shooting GoPro color
can drastically increase your dynamic range.
Now these are really small sensors.
So having the ability just to add a little bit more range
when it comes to color grading can make your
GoPro content look way more cinematic.
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Now one of the most enjoyable parts of my creative process
and something I really believe elevates cinematic
GoPro videos is music.
Like every single GoPro launch video you'll see is a hype,
pump-up track.
There's a reason why these tracks have an important part
in the video-making process.
And why I believe that they have a huge role to play
when it comes to making something
just a little bit more cinematic.
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This video is sponsored
by an incredible music licensing platform Epidemic Sound,
and yes, I have been using their catalog
of incredible artists for the last number of years.
Check out any of my travel films
and you will hear music that I have downloaded
from Epidemic Sound.
Now there's two key features
that I believe are game-changing
when it comes to trying to find (good) music.
At the end of last year
Epidemic released this music recommendations tab
and the personalized track recommendations feature
as part of their website.
So as soon as you go on to Epidemic Sound,
these two features makes searching for music so much easier.
So I've been really loving these two features
because one, I have previously produced videos
on YouTube.
Now the music recommendations tab works off
those previously produced YouTube videos.
So if you are a creator,
all you have to do is plug in your YouTube channel
and Epidemic will start to recommend you music based
on the videos you've already produced.
Very cool.
Now the personalized track recommendations tab
is slightly different.
It's based on the artists that you've already downloaded
from Epidemic Sound.
So if you dabbled with this music licensing platform before
and you're trying to start your edit,
you're trying to find cool beats,
now it makes it so much simpler,
because as soon as you log on there's like 10, 20 tracks
that are placed right in front of you
that are like, "Yeah, have a listen to these ones.
"These ones rule."
Head down to the top link in the description
to have a listen to some of those tracks
and start editing your GoPro cinematic videos today.
But moving on to shooting techniques.
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Now to create those cinematic edits,
your transitions play a huge role.
But the one transition I think,
which is super simple to execute,
and can drastically improve your GoPro videos
is the Match Cut.
Now this can be achieved in a number of ways.
This can be achieved by matching the cut
of a point of view perspective.
So using a bite mount.
And having a high five.
This can be achieved by slapping the camera.
Holding the camera up, slapping the lens.
Matching the cut as you pull the hand out,
you have revealed a new location.
But quite simply,
having the camera just set up
and filming a location and then cutting to another location.
A match cut is a very simple and seamless way
to improve your GoPro filmmaking
and make your videos more cinematic.
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Lastly, jumping into Adobe Premiere Pro
to run you through how to create a 2:1 aspect ratio.
Now the reason we use a 2:1 aspect ratio
over 16:9 is because it replicates the screen size
often seen in cinemas.
To do this all we have to do is to go file,
new sequence, in Adobe Premiere Pro
and go up to settings.
And change your editing mode to custom.
Then we're gonna change the timebase
to 23.976 frames per second.
And we're gonna dial in our frame size of 3840 by 1920.
Once you set your pixel aspect ratio to square pixels
that will create a 2:1 aspect ratio.
And all you have to do now is head down to the bottom,
name your sequence,
and start creating your cinematic GoPro edits.
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Guys, thank you so much for checking out today's video.
If you have enjoyed it,
I'd love it if you could punch a thumbs up button.
Share this video with someone else
who's interested in upping their GoPro content.
And top link in the description is the
Epidemic Sound playlist.
A bunch of my favorite tracks, you would've heard them
in this video, and I'll keep using them
in upcoming edits.
So yeah, I'll see you guys in the next upload.
So yeah.
Peace.
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