Today i'm looking at shooting with two or more cameras with the GoPro remotes!
Adorama TV presents Capture the Action
with Martin Dorey.
Hello I’m Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV. I’m here today
at the Ultima Adventure Center in North Devon
and we gonna be talking about shooting
with multiple GoPro cameras and operating them with your wifi remote.
Now why would you want to do this? Why indeed?
Well at the ultimate adventure centre they have
this wipeout course and I'm gonna be having a go on that ,
and it is an intense piece of action,
as you'll find out, and I want to capture action from lots of
different angles and the only way to do that is to trigger all my cameras
at the same time. I can do that with my wifi remote.
Now GoPro say
that these remotes will control
up to 50 cameras all at the same time. Now we've only got four today so that's
all were gonna use
and they also say that it will control them from up to
180 meters away. So if you can imagine you’ve got a
great burst of action you can capture all of that
from many many different angles. It's quite exciting.
Now I'm going to go out on the adventure corse in a minute. I’m going to get a wet suit on first but
first
I need to sync up these cameras. Okay so what the pairing process
with multiple cameras is gonna give you is just give you access to them in a
kinda
stop, go mode if you like. What it won't do
which you enjoy when you pair up
one camera with one remote, is you won’t be able to get access to the menu. So you can't
change any of the settings as you go along.
Now what that means is that
you've got to decide how you want to shoot in advance which means,
I've changed the settings on all these cameras to the same setting. I'm
shooting at
1080 at 60 frames a second, so I get some really nice motion
and I can use slow mo if I want to.
I've also set them up to shoot 30 frames
in three seconds in photo burst mode. Which should give me
hopefully a nice set of stills from lots and lots of different angles.
Now the pairing process it's relatively easy
unfortunately you won't be able to use
your app do this because your gonna have to come out of the wifi into the wifi remote
settings, so that means the app's out.
Which means you're gonna have to get back to grips with that
awkward menu flow chart. Actually
it's not that hard. Okay on your first camera
switch ,on switch on wifi,
select wifi remote control.
Then select new and select. You'll see it the pairing icon flash.
Next go to your remote control hold down the shutter button and press the power
button
to enter pairing mode, again you'll see the pairing
icons. Now when you're your camera and your remote controller are
paired you'll see a tick box. Now this is the crucial bit.
It'll then all ask you if you want to connect another camera.
You select Yes and go through the process again
to pare a second camera. Easy.
Okay,
that's that. Now we can power all these cameras down for a moment to change our
battery life,
and then the next time we power up once we've chosen all our angles and got everything
set
they should go straight back into the same modes so we should be able to
control them straight away with just
one remote control. Okay first of all
I'm gonna shoot film and then we're gonna shoot
bursts of stills. Wish me luck!
Right, okay got my wetsuit on, we’re out on the course.
I’m gonna set up the cameras and then go for it.
Okay right, so the last one which is going to be in the water
is hand-held, I'm gonna give it to Will.
Now before I give it to Will I need to fire up the Wi-Fi so I can control it all
from here. There you go Will.
Right, why on earth have I agreed to do this?
I’ve got all my safety equipment, turn all my cameras on using the remote,
press record, and go!
I’m clearly rubbish at that. I’m going to have a go
with getting some stills because video clearly isn’t working for me.
All I have to do take my remote. Don't forget it is waterproof to a certain
extent. Change
the mode to burst mode
and then get ready to go.
Thanks for joining me on AdoramaTV today.I’m wet, I’m cold, I’m miserable and I was
really,
really rubbish at i.t But, don't forget if you want more great tips
and tricks you can go to the Adorama Learning Center or
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