- Can this be used for vlogging?
I don't know, let's find out.
GoPro Hero 7 Black.
They're always like, "Wow, everybody should be vlogging
"on a GoPro."
(chuckles) I don't think so.
Of course you would say that.
You make trillions of dollars by selling these.
Ah, shoot!
I don't have a microSD card here.
I guess I'm probably gonna have to wait till tomorrow
to get one and then I can start.
Whoa!
Holy crap!
I'm moving this camera like this, and on the screen
it looks like I'm on a tripod.
This is insane!
There's times when I'm moving the camera around,
I'm like uh-oh, the camera froze on me
because its not moving.
It's just stabilized it so well where it looked
like it just locked in.
Wow, this is actually like, this is...
All right, finally got myself a microSD card.
Now yeah, the GoPro Hero 7 did improve the audio quality.
I assure it doesn't sound too bad.
I'm like right up against the camera right here.
All right, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna attach
an external microphone to the GoPro.
Just a heads up, if you have this sitting on top
of your camera, people will come up to you and just start
petting it like it's some sort of cute squirrel
that was trained to sit on your camera.
I'm gonna attach you and see how much better it sounds,
so here we go.
This is what it sounds like with the RODE Microphone
on top in raw, and then I like to do a little bit
of processing to my voice to make me sound cooler.
So, this is what it sounds like if turn that on.
And now this is how I usually record
and post-process my audio.
Do you guys want more lighting?
I could give you more lighting.
There, is that any better?
I have no idea what this frame looks like.
That's what sucks about having a flippy floppy screen.
(grunts)
I just feel inspired to do athletic things
because I'm filming on a GoPro.
So I feel way more comfortable with an actual microphone
mounted right on top of the camera.
'Cause you're getting way more consistencies
and I'm not gonna be as concerned about the audio
just like randomly dipping out all the sudden.
All right, so here's what I collected so far.
Here's the GoPro Hero 7, and then a cage for the Hero 7,
even though it says 5, but don't believe in that,
that's fake news.
Main benefit of the cage is that it has a hot shoe mount
which allows me to mount this guy on here.
And then, of course, a wind muff and this adapter,
which allows me to connect a regular microphone like this
into the side of the camera here, which is open right there.
And, of course, one of these to make it complete.
Pouring rain right now, but I can still vlog,
which is kinda cool.
So, technically this microphone isn't waterproof
and the port is open on the side of the camera,
so that I could plug the microphone in.
So even the camera itself isn't waterproof,
but I feel a lot more comfortable letting this thing
get rained on than my EOS R.
So, one thing that I do find nice about this rig
is that it's so simple and straightforward.
All I do is just pick it out of the bag
and hit that record button, and I'm recording.
And I absolutely love the fact that it's a GoPro,
so I know it's getting a really wide shot.
I can't really see the monitor, but the fact is I know
I'm being recorded because I can be like
all the way over here and all the way over here,
and I'm still in the frame.
What's this box?
I don't know, somebody loves me.
So, I get packages like this all the time,
'cause I'm just that freaking cool.
Who sent me cool stuff this time?
I don't know.
Hovershoes, what?
Does the GoPro Hero 7 look good in an unboxing?
Let's see, you guys can get right up in here with me.
(sipping) Mm!
This is really difficult to take out of this box.
I'm the best unboxer ever.
Hovershoes, this is how I'm getting around.
I'm gonna go shopping to the mall--
- Dude!
What the heck you doing, man?
Is that, are you opening up my boxes?
- I thought you weren't--
- That's my club soda you're drinking.
Where did you come from?
- I'll leave.
- Please, thank you.
I'll continue this.
- I should just be an unboxing channel, huh?
I should just do that.
Let me just unbox a bunch of stuff.
- You struggled quite hard, so I don't know about that, man.
You should probably just do this stuff.
- My least favorite thing about this cage, though,
is that it says the Hero 5 on here, but--
- Yeah, that's really misleading.
- Yeah, I mean--
- It makes you kind of look lame.
- Yeah, I mean what am I a peasant?
(laughing)
For all you people watching with a Hero 5,
you can just go ahead and unsubscribe.
- Unsubscribe right now.
- Look how much equipment is in this room right now,
and I'm vlogging on a GoPro.
- This is the 7, right? - This is the 7, yeah.
- Yeah, the 7 is great.
It's the first GoPro that I've actually liked using,
and then the results have actually been decent.
How does it do in low light, though, that's the question.
- Let's find out. - GoPro, low light.
Check these moves out, you know?
That's how you get around the office, buddy.
- I just punched in the lens a little bit
so I don't see this microphone.
- You got a nice little microphone here.
I've never seen that on a GoPro.
- Did I not tell you that people just come up
and start petting this thing all the time.
(laughing)
- It's great for sound, oh!
- So right now, we're kind of in low light.
We're not even in the light and--
- Super low light.
This is kind of my actual up set here.
This is like my first time here at nighttime,
so it's a little bit different,
but this is how I usually light things.
- Would you ever vlog again on a GoPro?
- I would vlog if I was like, let's say, snowboarding,
or snorkeling, or something like that.
I would do it on a GoPro, but I think for me, not having
shallow depth of field and being able to change lenses
and that kind of stuff, that kind of kills it for me.
I mean, that's for me.
I care a lot about the image, the look of it,
all that stuff.
But if you're just out there to tell stories,
yeah, this is probably a pretty good set-up.
- Yeah. - What do you think?
- I'm actually digging it more than I thought I would--
- Are you gonna switch to this?
- I'm gonna throw away that EOS R.
You're the one that recommended the EOS R.
Thanks for making me spend all that money.
That thing is going in the trash.
Giveaway on my EOS R.
Just kidding, but Matti's giving his away, so take it--
- I'm not giving away mine!
- Look at this set up here.
This is fancy schmancy, this is--
Oh my god, what's happening?
Help, 911!
Canadian police, help!
I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice!
- This should help you a little bit.
- Oh, we're having a war here.
Why'd you give, what is this?
No!
This only has one shot.
I'm being hit in the nuts and everything.
What is that?
That's like the Terminator.
I only have one bullet out of this thing.
- I'm sorry, I had to, it was just too much fun.
- But look how smooth this footage is.
Isn't this amazing?
I'm not coming back here anymore.
I only shot one, so I'm doing my part.
(Matti laughs)
- Thanks buddy.
- I think this is the best place to learn
how to use one of these, is right next to
a very expensive cinema camera.
- Oh yeah, don't hit that please.
- This thing is gonna make me do the splits, isn't it?
Now here's the camera set up we've been working with so far.
The thing that's been driving me crazy
is this trained squirrel popping into frame,
so you can see on the top of the frame.
So, we have a few options.
We could just take this off, but then we're dealing
with all the sound, and it's gonna sound like this--
(blowing into speaker)
And that sound sucks, I really hate that,
so I'm leaving that on here.
I could also give this a little haircut.
But I just went to the store,
picked up this little guy right here.
It's got a hot shoe on the bottom, a 1/4-inch up top,
and it came with this little adapter to make it a 3/8-inch.
This microphone can be mounted with a hot shoe or 3/8-inch,
so that should fit in right here.
Now we got ourselves an extension.
We could even go to SuperView, and it's still
not in the frame, so we're good.
For this next segment, I'm gonna drop down to 2.4K
and shoot in linear.
I wanna see what that looks like.
'Cause it looks like a GoPro with its super wide-angle lens,
and that's cool, that's just how the GoPros look
with their super wide-angle lens.
But I wanna see if I can make it look
a little bit less GoPro-y.
So I'm gonna pop it into Protune, turn the color profile
to flat, and color grade it afterwards, and also switch it
into linear to get rid of some that distortion,
and let's see how that looks.
All right, so here is a real-world test on what it's like
to be vlogging with this new set-up.
No worries about this little fluffy thing coming into frame.
(car horn) It sounds pretty good.
I don't know what that was about.
So Matti's taking us somewhere kind of interesting, I guess.
Where are we right now?
- I'm a little confused myself of where we are right now.
(laughing)
- Where are you taking us?
Why are we at a airport?
Who are you? - I have no idea.
(laughing)
Chris Nicholas, we're gonna take you guys
on a little helitour.
I'm buddies with Matti, my wife and I are.
We're gonna basically take you guys up around the city.
And I've never flown into or out of this airport,
so bare with me, it might be a little rocky.
- So yeah, apparently this is his helicopter.
I'm finally part of a cool helicopter YouTuber crew.
That just like goes everywhere on a helicopter
for no apparent reason.
It's like let's go get some groceries.
Let's take the chopper.
(helicopter blades chopping)
- hat's kind of scary
walking away from that helicopter,
just knowing that it could chop your head off.
That was insane, thanks for that little surprise, Matti.
- I think it was flying around the city
that made it so cool for me, that just like, I don't know.
Just seeing all the buildings and flying so close
to the CN Tower and stuff, like I don't know.
- Yeah! - It just got really quiet.
(laughing)
- The helicopter first turned on and it was like--
(rumbles)
Like you feel like you're in a old Chevy.
And then all the sudden you lift up in the air.
That was pretty insane.
The GoPro in low light looks like this in a city.
Not that great.
And a lot of kind of mushiness in the colors.
I mean it's not terrible,
you can still see at night in a city like this.
Matti has fans all over Toronto.
Got a little pocket of light here, so I'm gonna utilize
this part to tell you that the low light performance
is pretty similar to an iPhone, so nothing significant.
If low light is very important to you,
one of these mirrorless cameras, like a full-frame,
would do much, much better for you.
If you're looking for a pocket-size camera that's good
in low light, then the G7 X is pretty solid.
A strange man is following me.
Somebody please call the police.
(laughing)
But yeah, that's generally how it looks to vlog
on the GoPro Hero 7.
- The question is, would you recommend it for the audience
to vlog on this set-up?
- Oh, I think if you film in a lot of rain,
if you ride a lot of jet skis, just like you did--
- Wait, who films in a lot of rain?
It's another rainy day, I'm gonna go out there.
- How do you not?
If you live in Toronto, how do you--
- It's rained like everyday.
- He asked me a serious question, he's like,
"How do you guys, like, drive here?"
I was like what are you talking about?
- You can't see the lane.
It's raining so hard you can't see the lane.
You just like wake up in the morning and go,
"Bye honey, I'm gonna to the office."
Then you just like get in your car and it's just like--
The image itself, it's the GoPro look.
You're gonna get the GoPro look, there's no avoiding that.
- You kind of have to keep this distance at all times.
You don't wanna be...
(laughs) Both of those suck.
- Yeah, I hear a lot of people just wanting
to go into it with their phones, or maybe a GoPro,
and I think if you're kind of in that
entry level camera field for vlogging,
I think it might make sense to go with this.
Especially if you do a lot of like action sports stuff,
if you're a skateboarder.
- Or if your budget's not too big,
then this is probably a good set-up, right?
- Right, yeah, it's about 400 for the camera,
and then all the accessories and everything,
I think is probably about another 100 bucks, so--
- That's pretty good.
- Yeah. - $500, $600, whatever.
- Right.
- For a full vlogging set-up, can't really beat that.
- Right, and the durability of the GoPro,
I mean, I could just take this camera and just--
- [Matti] You should just smash it!
- Can't forget, I have to read the comments.
And another upside of having a GoPro opposed to
like a mirrorless camera is that you look a little bit
less insane filming yourself in public places, like this.
Anyways, I'm heading back to Los Angeles now.
Thanks, Matti, for showing me a good time around Toronto.
I will definitely be back.
And yeah, I don't really feel like Matti
needs an introduction.
You guys probably already know who he is.
But yeah, we shot some videos together while I was here
in Toronto, so make sure you're subscribed to his channel
to see those.
Top comment was, "I love your videos.
"So entertaining haha," by Matti.
Matti, I just saw you.
Armando says, "Smash that like button if you think he looks
"like Russell the kid from UP."
Thanks Armando.
Dave Dugdale is asking what editing software I use.
Adobe Premiere, all the way.
Ton of different editing softwares out there.
I'm sure many of them are good,
but I'm just very comfortable with Adobe Premiere.
I've been using it for a super long time,
so that's what I use.
Creative Films says,
"The EOS R was a big fail for videographers."
Yeah, you know, the Canon isn't perfect, I'll admit that,
but can I just remind you of this poll right here?
I don't think the camera that got 85% of the votes
is a fail.
I'm Jack's Nipples says, well that an interesting name.
"Why is there so much hate from both sides,
"they're just cameras?"
Just cameras?
Only, it's just my only child.
"Potato Jet as much as I like you,
"you're sponsored by Canon."
Not so fast, Abdul.
I have a very unbiased opinion on cameras.
I mean, I have a Canon G7 X Mark II,
a Canon M50, a Canon 80D, a Canon EOS R,
a Canon C100 Mark II.
Oh, wait a second.
Anyways, this video is getting really long.
I'm about to miss my flight, so I'll see you guys later.