Hey everybody, I'm Geoff Gulevich, and I'm Kurt Sorge. We're here on Vancouver Island
mountain biking and we're going to show you how to get those epic trail shots with the
HERO4 Session along with some of the cool new mounts from GoPro.
When you're shooting mountain biking, it's important to shoot a good combination of POV
and non-POV shots. The POV is great for showing off your perspective or unique angles in mountain
biking, but the non-POV shots are equally important to break up the action a little
bit. Since we're riding downhill trails, it's always good to set the scene with a shot of
us hiking our bikes up the trails.
"Set up a dropcam?" "Yeah yeah!"
"Nice."
I'm going to place the GoPro on the ground, halfway in the water and shoot it facing
down the trail. I'm going to use the GoPro App to preview the shot and change the modes.
This might be a killer shot to shoot in slow motion, so I'm going to set the clip to 1080/60.
"This will be good, just walk through here." "Let me know when you're recording."
"Alright."
We're going to use three different cameras each for this run to capture a variety of
different angles. The first two locations are pretty standard for mountain biking. I'm
going to mount to the front of my helmet under the visor with the frame and Vertical Mounting
Buckle. And one to the seatpost of my bike with the Handlebar Seatpost Pole Mount using
the Standard Frame. For the third angle, I'm going change things up and use the new Strap
by GoPro. By using The Strap, we can capture a unique angle not usually seen with mountain
biking. With the rotating mount, you can adjust your camera 360 degrees, so get creative with
where you aim it.
Since we're running so many cameras at once, we like to trigger them with the Smart Remote.
"It's time to shred."
Since these are all POV angles, I recommend that you shoot in 1440 at 30 frames per second.
Filming in this resolution gives you a much more immersive perspective because it utilizes
the full height of the camera's sensor. Use your GoPro App or Smart Remote to expand the
full list of camera features.
When you reach interesting parts of the trail, consider stopping and putting a dropcam down
on the trail. For any non-POV shots, I recommend using 1080/60 if light permits.
"Oh yeah, that's the shot." "HiLight this thing for sure."
Let's use this break in the action to change up the mounts a little bit for our second
run on the trail.
We're going to put on Chesties using the Standard Frame and Vertical Mounting Buckle. Next,
we're going to move our seatpost cameras onto the fork using the Roll Bar Mount. Next, we're
going to relocate our wrist cameras. I'm going to put mine on my leg, and Kurt's going to
put his on his forearm.
"Let's go for another lap." "Yew. Let's do it."
This leaves us with a lot of unique and different angles of our trail ride. So now, we just
need some kind of ending.
"This shot's going to be sick!"
This can be done with a dropcam, a high five, bones, whatever you want.
Now that we have all this awesome footage, it's going to be super easy to put together
a quick edit using GoPro Studio to share with your friends. You can hit your HiLight Tags
and use the included templates to make a killer edit.
That's it from Vancouver Island guys. Hope you guys picked up some good tips on how to
use your new GoPro HERO4 Session out on the trails. Thanks a lot for tuning in. Be sure
to check back soon for more updates. See you on the trails.
Hi everyone. I'm Geoff Gulevich, and I'm Kurt Sorge. We're here on Vancouver Island.
Along with some of the rad new mounts from GoPro.