Hello I'm Martin Dorey
and you're watching AdoramaTV. Today we're back in the studio to talk about
using your GoPro
in the Protune mode. I've been out about shooting a few bits and pieces
the show you how
and why you might want to use it.
AdoramaTV presents, Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
So what is Protune?
Well basically it's a setting on your camera that unlocks lots of extra shooting
options, call it kind of manual mode if you like
your GoPro is a really clever piece of kit and the minute you switch it on
it's looking at the scene and it's working out how much light it's got so its working out
exposure and it's working out the best shot that it can possibly give you,
that means you'll get a lot of contrast, average exposure,
great color, and really good
sharp crisp pictures now that's fine if you're happy with it,
and its going to look great, but what if you want more control
over your exposure, your sharpness, your color, your ISO, your color temperature.
Protune is going to give it to you and you'll be able to manipulate it more off afterwards
in the edit suite. It's going to be particularly useful if you want to match
your footage
this footage with footage from
other cameras like that one
and it's going to be great if you want to adjust the contrast, or the color
or even the sharpness.
Martin Dorey here, don't forget to check out Adorama's
latest competition to win some amazing prizes!
So I'm going to power up the camera with the GoPro app here
to show you the options. Scroll down to Protune,
turn it on and you'll see a whole lot of new options open up for you,
one thing to remember though is that Protune will affect your field of
view settings
so when you turn it on, do check that its giving you the aspect ratio you want.
The first setting is white balance
now this is all about getting the right color representation for the type of
lighting you're using
there are five settings. The first one
is auto which is well, automatic
and this is the default setting for Protune the last is camera raw
which is an unprocessed
image of what your camera census sees. Now it's a bit like shooting raw
on your DSLR but not quite
the idea is that you can basically go on and process it later.
In between our three settings for different types of light
now these are a measure of the color temperature of the light and they are measured in
kelvins or K. The first setting is 3000k
which is warm light so its the kind of light you might get at sunrise or sunset
or indoors when you've got tungsten bulbs. The second setting
is 5500 K which is kind of standard
daylight you might get at midday. The third is 6500 K
which is the kind of light that you might on a very overcast day or very
white light. Setting the camera to each one of these settings will give you the
best color
for that type of light, of course if you wanted to mix it up
or were shooting with the combination of warm in cold light, you could shoot
using the wrong white balance which would either give you very orange
or very blue shots.
Now the next setting we should look at is color, now the default setting
on your GoPro even in Protune
is called GoPro color now this will give you
beautiful bright colors, quite a lot of contrast.
The next setting is flat which will give you an unprocessed
color with lots more detail in the highlights
and the lowlight, basically it will look like it's got a lot less contrast
it will look flat, but if you've got a scene for example where you've got lots of sunlight,
lots of shadow and lots of light it will allow you to adjust the contrast
later so you can keep the details in the lowlights
and also the details in the highlights.
So the next setting we're going to talk about
is sharpness, now this is the amount of sharpening that your video footage will have
and there are three settings. The first one is high,
will give you a super crisp, super sharp image
like that one, which is typical of
standard GoPro settings, its the default if you like.
The next one is medium which will give you a slightly softer image that you
could maybe manipulate
up or down in post, and the third one
low, will give you a soft image now this is particularly useful if for example
you want to match footage with footage from another camera
give it maybe a more cinematic look, and really take control over the
sharpening. Ok, now we're moving on to perhaps the most important feature of the
Protune mode, and thats exposure. Now this will give you control
over the exposure of your footage, under normal circumstances the GoPro will read
the lights and the darks and the mid tones
as in average and give your average exposure for those readings
what it can't do is take an exposure for different areas.
So for example if somebody's face is blown out
you can't control that, unless you use Protune.
Protune will allow you to drop the exposure by a couple of stops
or overexposed by a couple stops if something is too dark,
so if you're fed up with losing people's faces or finding the
auto exposure just isn't cutting it for you this is the mode to use.
Ok that's it for now next time we're going to be talking about
looping video.
Thanks for joining me today on
AdoramaTV don't forget you can go to the Adorama
Learning Center for more tips and tricks and also
subscribe to AdoramaTV for more videos
just click on the link below, and finally
please like, comment or share and if there's anything you want to know
just get in touch, see you next time!
Do you want great-looking prints at low-cost? Be sure to visit our
easy to use, online printing service.
Adoramapix has professionals who treat your images with the utmost care that you can count on.
For a quick turnaround on photos, cards or albums use Adoramapix.com