- So, today we're talking about an awesome app.
Basically frees up your GoPro so that you can mount
it anywhere and use sync audio from your phone.
Right now I have a microphone.
It's on my shirt, little lavalier mic.
It's hooked to my phone, but through this app
called MYK, I can sync it so that you can use any
microphone that you connect to your phone
as the wireless audio for your GoPro.
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Okay, so today we're talking about the MYK app.
And it's spelled M-Y-K. MYK.
And this app is super powerful for a few reasons
and I'm gonna really show you how this works.
We're gonna dive into the app itself
but also the potential of working with this app.
I think there's a lot of uses for this
that expand your ability to use your GoPro
in a different way and still be able to get good audio.
And that's kind of the whole point around the MYK app
is that you can get audio from any source
that's plugged into your phone.
And then you can sync it up using the MYK app
and then you have good audio for your GoPro footage.
So you don't have to build out the whole contraption
that I've talked about in the past,
like the whole vlog setup.
You can do that if you want to obviously vlog
but there are so many more uses for your GoPro
once you open up this ability to be able to record
anything that you can plug into your smartphone.
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So the MYK app unlocks your phone
to basically give you the ability to
hook any sort of microphone into the phone itself
and that audio can now be used with your GoPro footage.
And it's a pretty cool app where
you can slide your audio back and forth
which allows you to sync it up so that it's perfect
and there's nothing out of sync when you're recording.
Now, you can plug anything into your phone.
Right here I have a couple microphones.
I have this cheap Poweredwise microphone that's
perfect for smartphones.
And I also have my Apply Airpods.
I've used both of these when I've been
playing around with this app and it's really cool
that you can use anything that you can hook
to your phone and get audio for your GoPro footage.
Now, beyond just using your microphone, which
is the biggest feature of this app, you also
have the ability to transfer the footage
from your GoPro to your phone super easy
so you never have to like plug into your computer,
transfer, do anything like that.
And you actually never have to go into the
GoPro app itself.
Now that's huge because that app, for me,
doesn't work the best, and this app makes it
flawless so that you just turn on the MYK app,
click a few buttons, you're synced up, ready to go.
It auto-connects once you've already connected once
and then can start recording, whether you're just doing
GoPro footage alone, or you want to connect a microphone,
and then sync up the audio so that you have better audio
than just the microphones that are on the GoPro itself.
Okay, so this is pretty cool.
I'm actually doing the thumbnail photo right now.
There's some nice palm trees up here.
I'm gonna do my thumbnail photo.
But I am using my Apple Airpods right now
and I just have the GoPro sitting over there
and everything is linked.
And this is one of the most powerful things
about this app is that I can use any audio source.
So I can use my Airpods, I can use a microphone
connected to my phone, anything
that's connected to my phone as the audio.
And when it comes to the video, it's all
the GoPro and I can sync it later.
A really cool feature about this app is that
you can sync it later and post
so it gives you both audio wave forms
and you can find a point and sync it.
So for me, whenever I start the recording,
I just do a clap and that visual of me clapping
and the audio of the clap makes it super simple to sync.
All right I've gotta take this thumbnail photo
so let's go back in the office
and let me show you more about this app.
Now, some of you might be asking, "Well what about
the whole vlog setup that I've done in the past?"
So I've done a few videos about doing a vlog setup
around your GoPro, and the one issue with that
is you have to open your door,
which ruins the waterproofing around this camera.
So once you plug a microphone directly in
to the GoPro, it's now not waterproof.
So it limits you in what you can use it for.
Obviously not every situation you're gonna be
running around in the water and getting this wet,
but having microphones and everything
attached to your GoPro makes it much bigger
because there's no way to directly attach anything
to the GoPro. You have to get an extra case,
and then mount it out, build it out bigger
so having the MYK app frees you up so that
your GoPro can stay super small and
you can mount it in different places
and be able to get audio wherever you're going.
So if you wanna walk distance away,
you can do that and get audio wherever you're standing
in comparison to the GoPro.
You don't have to be right up on it.
And you also don't have to have anything
dangling off your GoPro.
That's kind of the huge advantages around this app.
All right, so let's dive into this app
and let me just show you all the features
that the MYK app has.
Okay, so once you pull up the app,
you'll see your home screen here.
And I'm gonna just turn on my GoPro.
Now that my GoPro is on, it's just automatically
scanning for the GoPro. What's cool is that
after you connect your GoPro once,
your GoPro will automatically pop up here
on this home screen.
So from this home screen, you can see a few options here
and I'm just gonna go through them really quick.
On the top, you'll see all the settings for your GoPro
so you see what settings you're currently in,
the title of your GoPro, and how much battery you have.
You can also go into your settings by
clicking the cogwheel in the upper lefthand corner.
And you have a ton of settings at your fingertips.
So automatic workflow - I highly suggest
keeping this turned on because this automates
the whole process from getting the footage from your GoPro
into the app, and then syncing the audio
so you have synced audio from the audio from your phone
to your GoPro.
Now you can do all your camera settings from here.
You can do resolution, frames per second,
field of view, et cetera.
So if we go back to the home screen,
you'll see a chunk of six buttons right in the middle
and basically we have download, which will
download footage from your GoPro to your phone.
You can mix and edit, and that's when you do
the syncing of the audio.
You have the editor, which allows you to
trim down your clips so you can bring a clip in,
you can trim it down, the heads and tails,
so you just make it the exact clip you want.
You have your media, which just shows all the media
that's within the app.
You have your Viewer and photo, so that's how you
access the camera of the GoPro.
So you just pull up this screen.
It's gonna show the GoPro viewer here,
and also you have a few other things.
So you can access MYK plus GoPro
so that's now using the microphone from the phone
and then also the GoPro footage.
You can slide over to just, you know, the GoPro footage,
you can do photos, time lapse.
So you have a bunch of options from the screen here
to be able to switch between the different modes
and if we go back to the home screen,
you also have your telemetry data here.
So what that is, is a few things.
Let's turn on telemetry and I'll show you.
I'll swipe over twice to your telemetry data.
So, as you're doing different things with your GoPro,
you can get telemetry data that can be up on the screen.
Now, not everyone is going to be interested in this,
but there is a lot of potential uses for this.
If you're someone who wants to show a few different metrics,
you can add them here.
So you have Date and Time, you have your Speedometer,
you have your Elevation, you have your Elevation Gain,
your Distance Traveled, and there's a button
at the end called Coming Soon, which means that they're
gonna continue to add to the app
just beyond these five metrics.
So with the telemetry data, you'll see it
on the screen itself, but you can also mix it around.
So if we go to Mix and Edit, and we pull up
a shot where we enabled telemetry data in recording,
you can see that all the different metrics
are here at the bottom. You'll swipe up to expand,
and you can actually place these anywhere on the screen.
So you can see right now, I'm just using my finger
and dragging them around.
So your data can go anywhere on the screen,
kind of a cool feature, you can turn them on and off here,
just using these buttons on the bottom.
And then you can mix and edit from here.
And I'll talk about mixing and editing in a minute.
Back on the home screen, you have two buttons on the bottom.
These are like auto-record so you can click your GoPro,
it just starts recording footage on your GoPro,
or you GoPro with MYK, so that's the GoPro with
the audio coming from your phone.
And both of those are quick buttons where you click them,
start recording immediately so you don't have to
go through any menus or anything like that.
Now let me show you the real power of this app.
We go into Mix and Edit, let's pull up one of our clips,
and we click Mix and Edit. And you can see that
it's highlighted two clips on the screen:
one is the video file, and one is an audio file.
Now this was just another version of the intro I did
using the AirPods, and you can see
that there's two sources of audio here.
On the top, it's your GoPro audio,
and on the bottom, is your MYK audio.
Now you just press and hold on this, and you can slide it
back and forth. So, if it's not synced up properly,
you just do a quick adjustment, sync it up,
and now everything is synced and you can save the video.
Now, something also that's pretty cool with this app
is you can mix the levels of your audio.
So if you still want some of the audio from your GoPro,
so for example, say your GoPro is far away,
it's picking up some ambience and it sounds decent,
like maybe you're outside and you hear some waves crashing,
well if you want that kind of lower in the background,
and you don't want to add it in post,
you can bring up your GoPro audio just slightly,
have some of that in the background, and still have
your MYK audio be the strongest.
Now, also with this, it helps you with syncing so that
if you're closer and your GoPro is picking up your audio,
it's really easy to sync the audio.
So it's simple, but at the same time,
you have a lot of power with this app because
you can slide everything around and change the volume of
each microphone independently,
whether it's from the MYK app or from the GoPro.
Click save video, and now you have a video
that you can then use.
So straight from this app, you can use it for social media,
or from here, you can bring it into your editing software,
continue to edit so
for me, I would use my AirDrop, bring it to my computer,
and then go from there.
Now if you don't want to go from the MYK app,
you can also just pull the audio files from the MYK app,
and do the syncing in Post.
So what will happen is you'll get an audio file out of
the app itself, and then you'll bring it
into the editing software, and you'll sync it
with your GoPro footage and that's another
workflow that you can do for this app.
Now with automatic workflow turned on,
it autonomizes this whole process.
So when you click GoPro plus MYK at the bottom,
it's gonna start recording immediately,
so you can see right here, I have the audio recording
that's at the bottom of the screen, and you can see the
wave forms going up and down.
What's happening there is that's the audio from the phone
so whatever is plugged into the phone,
right now it's just the phone itself,
and you don't see any GoPro.
Well you just click the top, it's configuring the stream
and then you can see the GoPro.
You don't have to turn this on if you don't want to,
if you know that you have a good shot with your GoPro,
you don't have to monitor it, but it's easy to monitor it
and turn it on and off. You just tap to preview,
and then you get to see your footage.
But you can also always see your wave forms
of what audio is coming into the app and on the screen,
you also have your battery life and your remaining time
when it comes to the footage on the GoPro
so just the data that you need, super easy,
and it's all right here.
Now when you click stop,
it's gonna be doing an automated process so you don't
have to click the button to download the footage
and then go into the Mix Editor.
It does it automatically for you.
So in the back end, in that configure setting
in the cogwheel up in the corner,
you have Download Resolution and it was low or high.
So what that does is telling it that every time that you
finish recording using the automated workflow,
it's gonna pull in the footage either low or high.
Right now I have high turned on because I'd rather have
high quality footage than low quality
but depending on which platform you're gonna be
sharing this to, low might be all you need for it.
And once the footage is downloaded on my phone,
you can see it here, I have the two wave forms,
I can mix them, make sure that my lips are synced,
and then now click save video.
It's gonna save that clip, and I can bring it into
my phone's camera roll, and then upload it
to wherever I want to upload it.
It's a simple app, but it has a lot of potential
to be able to plug anything into your phone and
get good audio.
Now for my personally, I'm interested in this because
I'm working on a documentary series
and one of the things I'm gonna be doing is traveling
and going to different places
and I need gear where I can get good shots
and I can get good audio, even in some extreme situation.
I could mount the GoPro to somewhere outside the car
and still be getting audio inside the car
and have it synced up, which is a pretty cool feature
to be able to have.
For some people, this will come in handy if you're doing
narration. So say you have it mounted to
the front of a motorcycle or something else that
you're using, you could be narrating as you're going along
and not have to have two different sources
that you then sync up later.
Now I've got a water bottle sitting here
but this really has nothing to do with this video
beyond the fact that I'm actually working on
a mini-documentary series for my channel.
I've been working on this for a while now and
it's finally starting to happen.
One of the stories is about the plastic issue in the world
and I'm gonna be in some situations where
it's gonna be super wet just because of where I'm going,
the time of year, and different things that I'm doing
so having the ability to mount this GoPro to anywhere,
not have to worry about plugging audio directly in,
it just opens up the possibilities and
it's kind of cool how this whole thing works.
Now just something for you guys,
I highly suggest getting a reusable water bottle because
there is a plastic issue in the world
and one of those things that you should just do is
(taps water bottle) get a reusable water bottle.
So guys I'll put a link down in the description
to where you can download this app
and start using it right away.
I highly suggest anyone who's a GoPro user
has this app on hand because there are situations where
you'll want to record better audio without
having to plug something directly into your GoPro
and it just expands the possibilities of using your GoPro
with audio that you can then sync using this
or you can sync later using your editing software.
All right guys, that is it.
I'd love to know your thoughts about the MYK app
down in the comments and I will see you
on the next one.