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- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
- [Videographer] There you go, buddy.
- Yeah baby.
- [Videographer] How's it going?
- Goin' good, how are you?
- Good morning, high five.
Feelin' better?
- Ah, a little bit, yeah, yeah.
- We were both sick at the same time
which was kind of funny, but yeah,
we're both I'd say 95 percent back.
- Yeah about there.
- 92 might be a little more accurate.
Yes, thank you so much.
- There you go, you're welcome.
- Obviously have to start the morning
with coffee, this coffee, diner coffee
surprisingly is quite delicious.
Sometimes it's just like, it's just
right on the money.
Should I get a steak for breakfast?
How about a grilled cheese?
- How about a white tuna salad plate?
Greek omelet?
- I could get a cheese burger.
- The smoked salmon plate is good.
- Organic yogurt with the works, the French connections.
- Sunset souper.
- Eggs Florentine.
- Pancakes.
- So this is getting out of hand.
I think I might actually get a grilled cheese
because I'm seven.
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- Should be long enough.
I guess I should have hit record
for that timeline.
- No!
- [Peter] Just kidding.
- Oh.
- Best filmmaker prank ever.
- It's such a beautiful day for filming.
- I know, we always get the best
days when I shoot with Gabriel.
The sun is out and it's always just
abundandtly clear.
Do you use a GoPro?
- I do, but just for like family stuff,
not for production work at all.
- It never looks like it does on
the GoPro's website, that is my complaint.
- Oh, absolutely.
- [Peter] Their website footage looks immaculate.
- Yeah, oh I have
- It looks like this camera
was strapped to like a bird's beak,
and I'm like pumped, and I rip it open,
and I'm like, "No, no, not even close."
- No, like I bookmarked all their, you know,
GoPro videos and stuff, and I look at
their footage, and I look at mine, and it
- We're gonna go shoot some random
stock GoPro footage and try to make it not look crappy.
- I have a few tips and few tricks that I do.
Lets go to that spot.
- I'm lookin' forward to watching this video.
- [Peter] Yeah, let's go to that spot
and shoot some stuff.
- Alright.
- [Peter] Okay.
Do you remember what we shot here?
- Smoke.
- [Peter] I'll link it, I'll put the little
- The smoke grenades.
- The little, that goes up in it.
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- It is extremely cold in this corn field,
but I thought it would be great
because you got those linear lines,
everything's symmetrical to show off
a little bit of movement with the GoPro.
Now one of the things that I've learned
to get better footage is to not have it on like super view
or super wide because it just distorts the image too much.
So having it on something like linear is actually gonna
make that footage feel a little more like
an actual camera and not an action camera,
so that would be tip number one is to
actually flip that over the linear view,
and then we'll do some magic in post
to make it, you know, not as GoPro-ish,
that's I think is the key, is to make it
look not as GoPro footage as possible.
Also how good does the light in here
look right now?
Fantastic!
Dude it got cold fast!
- It like, really fast!
- [Peter] What happened?
- It's Canada.
- [Peter] Dude it was like,
oh and get this, so it's supposed to be
ready, 12 degrees tomorrow.
Dude, you're the best.
- You're the best.
- [Peter] I will see you, have a great day.
- Alright, you too.
- [Peter] And enjoy the coffee!
- Thank you very much, go get warm!
- [Peter] More when you need it!
Where's the heat, it is way too cold
outside to shoot right now.
Your fingers are numb, and it just makes it so
hard to get anything done.
Okay, we're talking stabilization, warp
stabilizer, obviously talking all
the precautions to move as slowly and meticulously
as you can to avoid camera shake,
that kind of thing.
Now there's also things to help camera shake,
specifically with GoPro, and that is their Karma Grip.
I don't have one yet.
Another great tip is actually shooting
in a flat color profile.
GoPro calls it Protune, so essentially
that gives your camera and the image sensor,
a better dynamic range which retains more
detail in the sky and in the image,
which makes it easier to actually color grade in post.
It's probably easier if I show you that in studio.
It might make a little more sense being
able to screen-share.
So, I think we'll do that, but first
I'm going to show you guys where
I got my first job at a camera shop.
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- I used to work here.
I'm going to see if they have that GoPro Karma thing,
so I could do the whole steady cam gimble review test.
Alright.
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- [Peter] I brought you my coffee.
- Oh, yay!
- [Peter] That's for you.
- Thank you.
- [Peter] It's very, I didn't bring
any for you, I'm sorry.
I brought some for you, though, Brian.
- What's that?
- [Peter] I brought you my coffee.
- Oh, get out of here!
- [Peter] That's for you.
- Give me some.
- [Peter] High five.
Okay, I gotta ask you.
- Talk to me, Goose.
- [Peter] GoPro, what's your opinion on GoPro.
I've been asking everybody.
- I think GoPro's awesome, I mean it depends
on what you're using it for.
The quality of the newer ones is
better than, like, my 3+ Black.
- 3+ Black, that's like from the 90s.
- I mean for what you're doing I can understand
going for it because you're all over the place
and you can mount this Karma to your buckle here,
and you can do all your crazy, you know, boarding.
- Total salesman right here.
- Well it's true, when you have a full frame,
like a 1 DX Mark II, you got this massive sensor,
and then you're dealing with a little GoPro sensor,
there's a huge difference in depth of field,
and dynamic range and all kinds of stuff, right, so?
- Sensor size, totally forgot about the sensor size.
How's it goin'?
See ya.
Henry's Newmarket, Pete speaking.
Good, how are you?
Yes, the x what?
The x70, I will check on that, let me check
the stock, hang on a second.
X, what's an x70?
- [Brian] Fuji x70.
- Fuji x70.
Hey it's actually discontinued, there's none in stock.
Yeah, yeah I know, it is what it is, yup.
Alright man, yeah, have a good one.
Dude, just like old times.
This was my jam, this was my section right here.
This is where I stood, I stood like this.
This was the old me.
- [Brian] Literally that was the pose.
- The was the old P.M. lean,
wait wait, hold on.
- [Brian] Either you were there,
or you were under the counter.
- A little bit of this action here,
double-tapping Igs.
This is actually where I got like my whole start
into like the world of photography and
cinematography was working with other people,
and like minded individuals selling this stuff,
which gave me like a huge one up.
So, yeah, fun fact, little sidebar,
if you want to get into this stuff,
getting a job at a camera shop is a hella good idea.
(grunts)
Henry's Newmarket, Peter speaking, hey.
- [Peter] This guy has been around,
I learned so much from you, I was telling everybody
- I learned a lot from you.
- [Peter] How much I learned from you.
This go started the first like the
first Cannon Pro Service account.
- That's true.
- [Peter] You were number one.
- That's true.
- He's like the grandfather of Cannon, I love Martin.
Why are the lights still blinking?
- I don't know.
- [Peter] You're just still laughing over here.
Here, have you ever held a blog camera?
- I haven't, but there we go.
- [Peter] You gotta one-hand it.
Tell us about your day.
- It's been a great day waiting for Peter,
this is like Waiting for Godot.
Do you know who Godot is?
- No.
- You don't do you?
- Remember I'm like 100 years younger than you.
- That's true, exactly 100.
- [Peter] Dude, now the power is out.
What is going on?
Alright, guys, we have five minutes to rob this place fast.
Wow, I literally made it just in time.
As you saw the power went out, and they
literally just close the store, so, I guess
because they know me, they just took my
information and sent me packing with what I need
to finish this video.
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- So apparently, you have to update this Karma Grip
before you can use it, you gotta plug
that into your laptop to run the update,
so I'm gonna have to go do that.
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- I'm just kidding.
Alright, so I've come back out.
It's the evening now, I've got about 20 minutes
left of light.
It's even more cold than it was this morning,
but I wanted to get a few shots with the GoPro
in the Karma grip.
It's not fully charged, I didn't want to wait,
I think they said it takes six hours
to fully charge this thing which I'm not down with,
but if I had like a normal, small, little USB wall outlet.
I think they have a charger that does it
in like half the time, but I don't wanna
spend another 80 dollars to do that.
Just a couple extra shots with the Karma Grip,
see how that works, see if it works any better.
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- Alright, so there you have it, a couple clips,
nothing special because it's freezing outside,
and I'm not really anywhere where there's
awesome footage to be had,
but enough to see if this is actually any better
than hand-holding it.
Now a couple of the clips there I did run full
speed, just like I have done with the Movi,
so I want to see how much camera shake
is picked up by big, heavy footsteps.
So another tip to get really cool looking footage
with the GoPro is to add mat bars to it.
Adding mat bars, like the widescreen top and
bottom bars, anamorphic bars, make
any kind of footage look a lot more cinematic.
You'll notice I do it with my B-roll segments,
so throwing those on top of your GoPro footage
will instantly make it looker better
and more professional than if you
didn't have it, in my opinon.
So, so far we've talked about stabilizing your
GoPro footage with something like the Karma Grip
that GoPro offers themselves to get
that extra buttery smooth footage to rival
something like that of a Movi or a steady cam.
On a much smaller scale to help with this,
we've also talked about using a flat color profile
to get better results.
When you're color grading in post,
you're going to get more dynamic range,
you're going to get more out of the footage
shooting on a flat profile.
We've talked about adding mat bars, anamorphic
bars to the top and bottom to kind of
give off that fake cinematic feeling
that you get when you're watching a professional
video or something in the theaters.
Now when you add those things together
with your color grading and your editing skills,
and stabilization of those clips, and your final
mat bars, you get something that looks a lot better
than someone that's just standard shooting with
a GoPro with the base settings it comes with
when you take it out of the package.
So, back to those settings, I figured I would at least
tell you guys what my settings are,
so you can kind of replicate them if
you want to do that.
I have the shutter on "Auto" so that
it auto-compensates for the exposure.
If I go into a dark room or if I go
into a brighter area, the camera's going to
auto-compensate for that.
The ISO minimum is 100, and the ISO max is 800.
I have my white balance set to auto
for the same reasons, if cloud cover is different
when I'm in a forest than when I'm in a car
than when I'm outside, I don't wanna have
to worry about switching this particular
camera every single time, I'd rather
worry about that on my main camera.
I have my sharpness set to medium.
That's something that can be very important.
If you have the sharpness too high
on a GoPro, it looks really bad really fast.
So make sure it's not on the highest setting,
either medium or low would be what I recommend.
I keep the color profile to flat,
which is called "Protune".
You'll see that little "PT" on the side
of your GoPro settings when you're doing that,
and I have the audio set to "medium".
So with these settings, I'm able to get nice,
cinematic looking footage with my GoPro.
It's not where I would particularly like
it to be yet, but it's getting close.
One more thing to keep in mind is like I mentioned
out in that cornfield is shooting linear.
Super view and super wide very easily
give off that feel that you're using an
action cam and a GoPro, it looks too GoPro-y
if you know what I mean, so by switching over
to linear, it gets rid of that weird bubble fish eye.
You throw the mat bars on top,
and it looks a lot more like a regular camera,
opposed to a sports camera.
So that's one of the biggest takeaways, I would say,
from this entire video.
And then, lastly, I think one of the most fun
ways to get different types of footage
is to actually mount this in as many weird
messed up places as you can.
Think about how small this is.
This has the advantage of being able to
be put almost anywhere, so mounting this
upside down, near the tailpipe of your car
or capturing under the rim of your tires,
or like I've down before, taping it to my foot.
The sky is really the limit with a camera this size.
And I think that's one of its biggest advantages
is to get creative with it.
GoPro offers so many different accessories
to mount this pretty much anywhere.
The sky really is the limit.
This isn't a paid sponsorship.
I don't know anybody at GoPro.
I paid for all of this stuff myself.
I've been pretty honest on this channel
since the beginning that I'm not
the biggest fan of GoPro stuff.
I want to be, I want to love it.
I have like all of it because I think
the potential's there for it to be great.
I'm just always kind of let down
with how my footage looks, but
it's been turning around as of recently,
so hopefully some of these tips will
also help you get better footage
and kind of enjoy the camera that you may
or may not own a little bit more.
Okay, guys, so that's it for me.
I hope you like this video.
Hit that like button if you did,
smash it if that's, you know,
something that you're into.
Subscribe if you aren't already, and, guys,
I will see you in the next one.
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