Hello, I'm Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV.
Today I'm going to be looking at resolution, frame rates,
and fields of view on the GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition camera.
AdoramaTV presents,
Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
All GoPro cameras have different resolution,
frame rate options, and a choice of field of view
and some of them are better for some things than others, some are great for action,
some give great detail and some are fantastic for slow-motion.
Knowing which one to use, when, is the key to getting
great action footage. We've been out on our bikes
to demonstrate to you how each setting can affect your picture.
Firstly let's talk about resolution,
the resolution is the amount of information thats captured on the camera sensor,
it would affect the size and the quality of your picture.
The higher the resolution the better-quality the picture.
the lower resolution, the lower the quality. Now
the thing about resolution is that its only as good as the device you're going
to be playing it back on,
so if you can be playing your video is back on 4k high-definition television
then you'll want to set the resolution on your camera 4k
because the quality will be justified However
if your videos are going to end up on YouTube or Facebook,
then you don't need to shoot at such a high resolution because all you'll do
is use up memory, so you shoot at an appropriate resolution.
As you can see from this clip the picture is super crisp and clear
with detail in the blacks and whites and lot of good color representation,
in what are actually a challenging range of colors. This is fantastic quality
and great if you want to speed up footage, show it on a 4k TV
or even take high-quality 8 megapixel stills from your footage.
At the other end of the scale you can shoot at a resolution of 720
and you've got a choice of fields of view, of narrow, medium
and wide and even super wide
and you can shoot at 25, 24, 50,
or 100 frames a second. Now this stuff isn't going to be as good as the 4k
quality
but it's going to be perfectly acceptable for YouTube, and actually is really versatile.
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Right frames per second,
now the frames per second rate that you shoot at
is really important to your footage. All standard videos
either run at 25 or 24 frames a second, this is the number of pictures
that the video takes each second to give you a smooth movement.
Now if you shoot at 25 frames per second
and then play it back at 25 frames per second it runs at normal speed,
if you shoot 50 frames a second and then play that video back at 25 frames a
second,
your video will run at half speed. This is how you get slow motion and this is why
the frames per second
are so important when you're shooting on your GoPro. If you want super slow motion
you can shoot at 100 frames per second and that will allow you to slow it down
four times and still be a really lovely smooth peace video, even
on the WVGA setting, you can shoot
at 240 frames per second which will give you
super slow motion. I use this setting
WVGA at 240 frames per second to shoot this clip
of me trying to keep up with my daughter on her bike.
The resolution is standard definition but it's super slow motion,
it's a really, really great option if you want to capture
and slow down fast action. Let's talk about
aspect ratio next very briefly. The aspect ratio
is the shape of your screen, okay,
and on the GoPro you can shoot in 17x9
which is wide screen format, 16x9 which
isn't quite as wide, or 4x3.
Now the sensor on the GoPro is shaped 4x3,
so when you shoot in 16x9 it will
chop the top and bottom off the frame to give you a wide framed picture,
the same with 17x9. So let's look at the difference between 16x9
and 4x3 in these two clips, when you play them side by side
it's quite obvious, the clip on the left is shot in ultra-wide 19x9,
at 1080 resolution while the clip on the right is shot at 960
within aspect ratio of 4x3. What's interesting about the GoPro
is that you could also shoot in super view, now
they say it's the most immersive video picture available,
and actually it is, the reason for this is super view uses the entire 4x3 sensor
and it stretches the sides, so you get the full height,
and the full width of the sensor but with extra width
so it shoots at a 16x9 format, it looks super wide
it's got super great quality, it's really lovely.
You can see this really clearly in this clip, see how charlie's arms are stretched each side of her,
and we are able to see a lot more headroom, and a lot further down her body,
you're getting a really wide angle of view.
Sometimes you aren't going to be its get close enough to your subject, to be able to see everything
that's when you use your fields of view.
Now on some resolutions you've got options, you can shoot wide,
you can shoot medium, and you can shoot narrow fields of view.
This is exactly the same as zooming in or zooming out on a standard camera,
or changing the lens. At 1080, you can also choose a range of frame rates
with really good quality thats useful for a range of applications,
add to that the benefit of being able to change the field of view
and actually it starts to be a really good option for most productions
and when you consider you add super
view into that at 1080 and you can start to see how this is a setting
for most things. Let's take a look at the 1080 super view again,
see how there's lots of image top and bottom, it really puts you there in the action,
and even with the sun looking straight down the lens,
or with a strong backlight, it still holds the picture quality,
it really is astounding so if in doubt, that's the one to go for.
Okay that's it for now
next time we'll look at taking our GoPros underwater!
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