Well good morning folks.
Welcome back to the interior of the Cirrus again.
Just down here at Moorabbin Airport once again just doing some prep work getting used to
some of the systems in the aircraft but also working on things like aspects of the filmmaking
of the trip as well so things like this for example, the GoPro mounts.
So I've got one front facing one which will give us some great views out the front and
one side facing one.
So what I need to do it test them, so let's attach some GoPros here and check out some
of the angles we can get.
Couple of you have asked how I record the audio from air traffic control and what I'm
saying in the aircraft onto the GoPros.
Basically it's pretty simple, I know a lot of people talk about external audio recorders
that they use, some people record onto their iPhones.
I think all these methods are great but it's not quite for me because I think it's actually
too much hassle then afterwards trying to sync the audio back to the video track when
you're doing your editing.
So on this Hero 4 silver I've got the ... whoa ... that was the lens cap, I've got the GoPro
audio cable and so this has the mini USB connector which goes into the side of the GoPro like
this and then that has a cable which ends up in a 3 and a half mil jack.
In the Cirrus it goes directly into the passenger headphone socket.
And that way then I've got the camera directly connected to the headphone socket I can put
the GoPro up here and click that in, and you can see the GoPro with the cable is out of
my way completely.
Then I've also got the Hero 5 black, now that of course takes a different input, this one
has I think that's a USB-C which basically goes into the side.
So again you need to get the GoPro adaptor which converts your 3 and a half mil jack
into the GoPro adaptor, click that in there then this adaptor goes into the GoPro itself
like so.
What I have on the end of this cable is this splitter so it basically takes one quarter
inch jack and splits it into two female quarter inch inputs.
So I plug this quarter inch jack into my primary pilots headphone socket and then I put the
GoPro into one side and my headset jack goes into here.
If you can see this one's on quite a long cable, and this one goes behind the back of
my seat, round the left hand side under the door and is affixed to the front here on a
suction cup mount.
So remember those ball joints, the ball buckle joints that I wanted to get from GoPro I didn't
find them in the shops in the end so I had to order them online but they work really
well so what it means is I can have this camera here but it's very easy for me to be able
to turn it.
And because the GoPros have got a really wild, well the do have a wild field of view as well
as a wide field of view, and what it means is sometimes about a third of the picture
was just picking up the side of the aircraft.
So now being able to rotate the camera means that I can make sure the angle is a lot better
and we can focus on the action rather than on the bits of the aircraft.
Audio test.
So let's turn the avionics on and just for about 30 seconds quickly we'll see how it
sounds with the audio coming through the GoPros.
Just going to see how the audio sounds on this GoPro first of all.
This is me talking 1 2 3 4, I'm just changing the squelch so that's the squelch com;letely
off, that's the squelch completely up and that's the squelch about half way through
so about a third, two thirds, somewhere in the middle.
Down, that's the volume coming up to the top and that's the volume about a third of the
way through.
So then on this GoPro then again I'm going to do the same, all I'm doing is just changing
the volume and the squelch on the communication console here.
Squelch in the middle, volume control all the way down, volume control all the way up
which is pretty loud.
So let's turn everything off again, so avionics off, and turn the two batteries off as well.
So that's the audio check I have no idea how that sounds I'll obviously check when I edit
the footage afterwards and see how it sounds, but I'm going to put my recommendations for
what settings to use, right here.
Alright so now let's have a quick look at some of the angles so what I'll do is flick
to this GoPro up here.
What we should see is we should see a nice view of the dashboard here, you should be
able to see the primary flight display and the multi function display here.
So let's take a look at the other GoPro this is the cockpit facing GoPro so what you should
be seeing is hopefully a pretty good angle from about here hopefully so you shouldn't
be seeing the edge of the door you should also get a fairly good view looking out this
side of the aircraft so looking out the right hand side window, and yeah it should give
you a much better idea of exactly what's going on inside the cockpit as well as using this
camera to have a look at what's going on outside the plane too.
You know what these are really robust things these GoPro this is the third time I've just
dropped this little thing in the last 10 minutes and it's still working perfectly so thank
you GoPro for making such robust products.
This GoPro this Hero 4 silver this has got an ND filter on the front of it, I'll just
take it off so you can see, there that's the normal lense, that's the ND filter that sits
on top and that's to help what it does it's basically like sunglasses for the GoPro, darkens
the light coming in, changes the shutter speed and it gets rid of some of that rolling shutter
that you get with the propeller.
Just makes everything look more blurry and, yeah just looks better out the front.
Right, try not to drop it again.
When I get back home I'll just give you an overview of some of the settings I use for
the GoPro as well, just in terms of the max ISO, shutter speed, white balance, also whether
you should use Protune or not, I'll tell you about what I think on that.
So this is the Hero 5 black which I've been testing in the cockpit earlier.
So this is the first screen you see this has got the key video settings across the bottom
you can see I've got my resolution set to 1080p which is HD.
Now you can do 2.7K and 4K on the Hero 5.
To be honest, 1080p does everything I need, file sizes on everything else are too big
anyway.
Next up is frames per second, I've got this set to 25 frames per second, now of course
you can increase that to 50 and even higher settings with slightly different resolution
combinations here on the GoPro.
But because I'm using this in the cockpit, not really looking to change the speed of
the track, I'm just going to keep it the same, I may as well record as 25 frames per second
because otherwise the file sizes will be larger and I want to store more on the memory card
here.
Now next up is the field of view, I have mine set to wide, when you're recording in the
cockpit you obviously want to capture as much as you can really from the left all the way
through to the right side of the plane especially with the front-facing camera because you want
to be picking up what's going on right from the primary flight display to the multi function
display maybe down here to what's happening with the navigation console.
Now on my protune settings, it's always the debate do you have protune turned on or off.
I always have protune turned on because it gives me more flexibility over some of these
settings which I like to have control over.
I have my GoPro colour set to flat rather than GoPro.
If you're not looking to do any colour correction on your future afterwards then choose the
GoPro option, it's really good the colour is great on the GoPro option, but I go for
flat because it gives me a little more control and I can do my own colour correction afterwards
in post production in Final Cut.
White balance I set to auto, I never mess with that.
My ISO I set to 400, you can increase this to a higher max ISO but to be honest I don't
really like the additional noise that it will put onto the picture otherwise so I have mine
set to 400.
The shutter speed 1 50th, it's just following the basic rule in cameras which if I'm filming
in 25 frames per second then my shutter speed needs to be double that so 25 frames per second,
one 50th for the shutter speed.
Now your exposure compensation at certain shutter speeds you can't adjust that but wherever
I can I always bump that down a little bit I always prefer things are underexposed rather
than overexposed because you can fix underexposure a lot more easily in post production than
over exposure.
But in this instance we can't change that so that's obviously greyed out.
Sharpness I tend to set to medium which really suits my needs to be honest.
High is way too high I find on the GoPro and low, well you need to bump a little sharpness
in post production anyway so to save myself time I set this to medium and I'm pretty happy
with the results that come out.
Audio is currently off but there are some options there when you're using external audio
which we will be.
Video stabilisation I alway have that set to on.
And then these options are not available for 30 frames per second or lower and we're on
25.
And the manual audio controls I keep that automated because the input I get from GoPro
on auto is really good anyway.
Now one last thing before this trip happens, if you want to follow along and a few people
have asked about following along in real time with live flight tracking of the aircraft,
I'll also be live tweeting via my Twitter account @stef747 live tweeting a GPS tracker
link that you'll be able to click on and you'll be able in real time to follow the aircraft
as we're going along from leg to leg.
Also remember the daily vlogs will be coming out as well so make sure you're subscribed
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