what's up Abe Kislevitz here, we are on a little sunset bike ride tonight and i want to share with
you guys the best settings that you can be using in your hero 10 to get the most out of your gopros
i work for gopro so i've been using the camera for the past couple months all the information
that i'm going to share with you today comes straight from the source so talking to engineers
that built the cameras and those of us that have been out in the field shooting with it
there's a ton of different settings and modes in the camera and knowing when to use which of
those settings in which applications is going to make sure that you are getting the best quality
out of your cameras. So stay tuned we're going to be talking about stabilization, shooting at night,
POV, all of the different things that are going to be exciting to understand. Thanks for tuning in.
Alright, we've got a full schedule for you today - first we're going to go through the ProTune setup
next we're going to talk about aspect ratio and resolutions then we're going
to go into the meat of this video which is the settings guide, and lastly I'll touch on
exposure control. Let's get started! To get in to the video settings we're going to tap on the video
settings pill at the bottom and then tap on the pencil icon of the preset that we want to adjust.
Here's a pro-tip for those of you that don't know, just tap and hold this video settings pill to
jump directly into the video settings. So we'll be dialing the ProTune setup first and these are kind
of the under the hood settings what i show here is pretty much what i use all the time with very
few caveats and i'll explain those as we go one thing i do want to note is that you will have to
change these settings for all of the presets that you're setting up if you are setting up presets so
just keep that in mind for bitrate we're going to go with high for shutter the camera does a great
job on auto EV Comp is a setting that basically tells the camera to overexpose or underexpose
i like to keep mine on -0.5 just to make sure the camera doesn't overexpose
for white balance the camera does a great job on auto but you can set it to something specific
based on your scene iso is the digital gain in the camera so the higher it goes the brighter your
footage is going to be in low light but also it's going to be noisier i keep my ISO min at 100 and
i keep my ISO max at 1600 because it helps with hyper smooth in low light if you want to read more
about this i have a blog post of why HyperSmooth requires higher ISOs to work without blurring,
just know that 1600 is a good happy medium between not too noisy but helping HyperSmooth enough in
low light i keep the sharpness in the camera at low at all times because it gives me the cleanest
footage possible i typically sharpen my footage in post but also if you're trying to match gopro
footage to other camera sources low is going to help that be a seamless transition last but not
least we have the color profile and our options now are vibrant natural and flat vibrant being
the former gopro color i prefer natural because it's just a little less punchy than vibrant it
helps with the highlights and the saturation in the camera but it's also easy to color correct
for those that don't know flat is actually a log curve but it does take quite a bit of color
correction knowledge to get that looking right and i will shoot in flat if i'm in a tough situation
where i have some intense highlights and shadows so that's pretty much it for the protune settings
if you look at the left i've highlighted the things that are not default in blue
all the rest come default out of the box so not too much to change i want to quickly talk about
aspect ratio gopro films in both 16x9 and 4x3 where 4x3 is just capturing the entire sensor
if you look at the comparison 4x3 just offers more view above and below that same 16x9 frame the only
downside is it's more taxing on the processor so you can do higher frame rates in 16x9 each
of these modes contains different resolutions of varying sizes typically the lower resolutions is
where you get your high frame rates which equates to better slow motion the hero 10 really bridges
this gap by offering 120 frames per second in 4k to give you a little size reference here's 1080p
compared to 2.7 k and then we move up to 4k and finally 5.3 k which is almost twice as many pixels
as 4k on the other side of the spectrum in 4 3 we have 2.7 k43 which is basically 2.7 k but taller
4k 43 which is 4k but taller and a little bit wider in the gopro and then 5k 43 which
is a little bit narrower than 5.3 k but taller the only crossover is the superview lens which
takes the full 4x3 view and squishes it down into a 16x9 frame it then pinches the middle together
so it looks like it's the correct aspect ratio in the middle while stretching out the sides
you'll get the same view if you're filming in 4x3 in the wide lens but super view conveniently
packages it into a 16x9 frame you'll pretty much always hear me recommend shooting in 4x3
overshooting in superview because you can do a lot more with the footage in post
there's plugins where you can actually recreate super view in premiere or if you're trying to
crop your video for instagram and a vertical crop you have a lot more room to play with
now that you have a background on frame sizes and we've also set up the protune settings it's time
to go through the full settings guide i thought about all of the times that i changed my gopro
settings depending on what i'm filming and it ended up coming down to this list i know it might
be surprising that it's not based around skiing versus mountain biking or sport specific but i'll
go through all the categories and explain how it can apply to all of those different aspects and
then as i mentioned earlier my protune settings pretty much don't change between all the different
sports i keep those constant and we're just going to be looking at resolution lens and stabilization
so this first category i would call travel vlog or documentary it's basically where you're not going
to need any slow motion but you're also not going to need that 4 3 frame for this category i jump
between the wide lens the linear lens and linear plus horizon leveling lens new in the hero 10
at 5.3 k30 the linear plus horizon leveling lens doesn't crop in any closer than the linear
lens which is huge the great thing about the linear and linear plus horizon leveling lenses
is they utilize all the extra room that they get from cropping to give you better stabilization by
filming in 5.3 k 30 versus 60 it allows us to use hyper smooth high which is the best stabilization
we can get at the widest field of view next on the list is pov which is basically anything
that's first person view that doesn't require slow motion so it's similar to travel vlog in that i
want high resolution but i like to have the extra view that 4x3 gives me so i'm going to use 5k
4x3 which is a new mode in the hero 10 and it is incredibly high resolution and extremely beautiful
i prefer the wide lens with this because i'm trying to get the widest view possible in all 4x3
modes we only have hypersmooth standard and boost but boost crops in a lot so i prefer standard
another name for activity could be pov with slow motion this is basically anytime you want to mount
a gopro where you get more view so you're going to film in 4x3 but you also want slow motion so
i'm going to use 4k 4360 which is really high resolution but also gives me the ability for
2x slo-mo if i wanted to go more slow-mo i could film in 2.7 k 4 3 120 but 4k for 360 is going to
give us much better picture quality overall again for this i'm typically trying to have it as wide
as possible so i'm going to use the wide lens and then for hypersmooth we're in standard for
cinematic we're going to take advantage where we get the highest resolution at 2x slo-mo so
that's 5.3 k 60. for the lens i like to shoot wide because i like to do my lens correction in post
i have a tutorial linked in the description below but you could also use linear in this mode which
will give you better stabilization overall as you film i wouldn't go to linear plus horizon leveling
in this mode because at 5.3k60 it's gonna crop in further than if you were just in linear because
we're in a high power mode 5.3 k60 does not have hyper smooth high so we're in hypersmooth standard
going down the list i like to have a slow motion preset and we have the beautiful 4k
120. if you wanted to go even slower with the hero 10 you can do 2.7 k 240
but 4k 120 is gonna have significantly higher image quality for the lens in 4k 120 i like to
go with wide but also linear does give you better stabilization as you film and then for hypersmooth
we're in standard i wouldn't go to boost because it does crop in and i always like to retain the
best image quality possible by keeping it as wide as possible if you're shooting on an fpv
drone you can definitely get away with using the activity or cinematic presets i have listed here
but to get the best image quality with the best stabilization i would recommend using realsteady
which is a standalone application that stabilizes the footage based on the gyro and all of the data
in the camera when processing a clip through real steady it's going to take a 4 3 frame
and crop it down to 16 by 9 so you definitely want to be shooting in a 4-3 mode for me it's a
toss-up between 5k 4330 which is incredibly high image quality and 4k for 360 which is
going to give you that 2x slow-mo for the lens i use wide and then for stabilization you're going
to want to turn off hypersmooth completely and let real steady do all the stabilizing
last but not least if you scroll all the way down to iso this is one of the modes that i like to
change iso max to 100 because that gives us nice smooth motion blur when we're flying in the drones
this is one area you'll see a lot of people using nd filters to accentuate that blur even more i'll
just say you never want to mix nd filters with an iso max that's higher than 100 otherwise you're
just forcing additional unnecessary noise into your image last but not least we have low light
there are two modes in the hero 10 that are tuned to be better with low light than others and those
are 4k 30 and 1080 60. i recommend 4k 30 because you're gonna get the added benefit of shooting
in 30 fps which is going to give you more light overall and then 4k is just a higher resolution
it may be a little counterintuitive to not be filming in 5k but you're actually going to get
better detail overall if you film in 4k 30 because that mode has more processing on it to deal with
the noise reduction for noise and image quality overall i'd keep your lens at wide and lastly
for the stabilization since you're in 4k 30 you can enable hyper smooth high but for me it's
also a toss-up between turning off hypersmooth entirely at low light or using hypersmooth with
a higher iso what's nice about the hero 10 is there's now an on-screen shortcut to turn off
hypersmooth entirely so it's really quick to turn it on and off if you wanted to experiment
the last thing that i wanted to mention is locking your exposure with everything that i've mentioned
here locking your exposure can add an additional layer of image quality that you didn't realize you
were missing keeping a consistent exposure throughout your clips and videos will make
your footage look that much more professional the easiest way to do this is where you tap and hold
on the rear display spot meter will come up and you can move it around tap it once it'll lock it
and then accept the lock exposure just tap the lock at any point and it'll go away all right i
know that was a ton of information if you want to go even deeper i have a blog post that goes more
in depth with all the nuances of the different modes and settings in the hero 10. there's a lot
of information that i didn't even cover here so check the link in the description below
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