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All right, yo what's up?
Today, we're gonna be learning how to set up your GoPro Max.
This is a beginner's guide,
I'm not gonna get into the really detailed stuff
for you guys have been shooting 360
or even shooting GoPro for a while know about.
This is for those of you that are brand new to GoPro.
You've just got a GoPro Max, you want to learn,
how can I set it up,
what's the best way to Mount it to my accessories,
how do I make sure it doesn't look weird,
how do I get cool videos on my Instagram?
If they're other questions that you've got,
well, keep watching.
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We're talking about mounting the GoPro max.
For those of you guys that are looking
at different kinds of selfie sticks,
I would recommend getting this one.
This is the Max Grip, previously known as the Fusion Grip.
It has a tripod base and these telescopic poles.
Now, when you are filming with the GoPro Max
it's really important that you keep the camera vertical.
If you bend the camera like this,
then this stitch line here is gonna create problems from you
like holding a selfie stick.
So here's option number one
when our three 60 camera is bent in its mount.
And, you'll probably notice that you can see some of,
yeah, it's just a very strange render.
Now when we straighten it up,
so we're gonna go perpendicular
or just as straight as possible
so that stitch line can render out this poll.
Now let's have a look.
something to keep in mind when filming in 360
is the stitch line.
It's important to make sure that
at least one of the hundred and 80 degree lenses
is facing you,
so that the stitch line doesn't cut you in half.
The next couple of tips for shooting in three 360,
I'd think about how long you wanna capture your content.
Now I would recommend shooting
between 60 seconds to two minutes.
If you're shooting super long vlog content,
you're going to have to post produce that.
And nobody wants to spend like hours, literally hours
over capturing their 360 content,
either on their mobile or on their computer,
let alone whether your computer can handle it.
So my recommendation is to just shoot short clips,
aim for like two minutes.
And also make sure you just have a quick look
and check your lenses.
If the lenses on one side are a bit dirty
or like there's water droplets on there,
it's going to show up in your 360 footage,
so yeah, give him a little spruce up, clean them up
and away you go.
Now a couple of tips
for those of you that have the vlogging,
is to make sure that you don't looking consistently
at this bottom screen.
Like if I'm constantly looking at the bottom screen then,
I'm losing connections with the audience.
So make sure that you look at the top lens and you know,
'cause we don't want to chat to a camera while,
and our eyes are super distracting.
Also where I'm standing, as I moved here into the darkness,
it does make a big difference on the quality of the shot.
Obviously my face isn't lit at the back,
it's back lit right now
so I'm not getting as cleaner color,
but if I move towards a window, like somewhere like here,
oh, that shot looks miraculously better than the last one.
Now, the reason being is because it's reflect life
on my face.
Very simple, but that's vlogging in hero mode.
So the best way to set up your GoPro max
to vlog whilst using the hero mode
is to go into the settings
and first of all set your frame rate and frame size.
I like to use 1080, 60,
because if I wanna slow any of my clips down,
I've got the frame rate,
but if I'm shooting in darker light, then I'd choose 24.
But as a standard, just keep it at 1080, 60.
Now the next thing you're gonna do
is have a look at some of the other settings in pro tune.
If you wanna change the GoPro color to flat, you can.
You can select the flat profile and add color grade,
I've got some free lots in the description of this video,
but for beginners,
I would recommend just keeping it on GoPro color.
Now, the next thing which is highly advantageous
to the vlogger is setting up the microphone
so that you are using the back microphone.
Now the back microphone is basically the one
which is on the same side as the screen.
So if you did wanna use the screen to see yourself and vlog
and talk to the camera,
I think this is the best way to set it up.
Also, if you're wondering why your camera
doesn't have 60 frames or 50 or vice versa,
just swipe down from the home screen
and click on preferences,
go into general and find the area which says anti flicker.
This will allow you to optimize your camera
for either NTSC or PAL,
depending on the region of which you are filming.
If you are filming in the United States,
then select 60 or NTSC,
but if you're filming in Australia, I would select 50.
If I wanted to do some POV content with a GoPro Max
you can just tap the bottom icon down there
and switch the camera lens,
so now it's using the opposite camera lens
which is covered by these little suckers.
And then I can use the bike mount here
and start rolling like that.
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Now the only thing is for POV,
I would probably change the field of view.
So we can just go back into our settings
and switch up the field of youth to be super view.
Let's do that.
Your GoPro max should be default
to have these keyboard shortcuts or these screen shortcuts.
So just click on the W and slide it up
to go from a wide to a super view field of view.
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I guess one thing to take note,
if you were interested in mounting the camera
with the bike Mount or a short mount to a helmet
is to have a look at this.
If I'm recording and I set the Mount up like this,
you will notice while I'm recording in 360
that the stitch line is going to be over the head.
But if I was to just tilt the camera back a bit,
it's going to change the stitch line
and it's just going to give the 360 content,
something usable, or it's just going to look better.
So if you were gonna Mount it like this,
then I recommend you just tilting the axis
so that the stitch line can be around there
as opposed to like dissecting the helmet.
So one of the options that I would recommend getting,
if you are looking at shooting a lot of 360 content
is a telescopic selfie pole.
This one is a carbon fiber, 300 centimeter Selfie stick
from Insta360 and it is frigging awesome.
So I'll show you how long this thing extends
all the companies that make them are 270 Pro
but this one is I guess 30 centimeters longer.
And so you see what I mean?
That's a serious selfie stick.
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Have you just imported your clips into Premier Pro
and you're wondering why they're upside down,
you know, you're just shooting some POV content
on your GoPro Max,
well, first things first,
over here on the left, you can easily rotate the clip
just by typing in 180 degrees and there you go,
your clip is now facing the right way.
And the other thing is, why is the box so small?
Well, I've got a 4K window and it was shooting at 1080.
All you have to right click on the clip
and scale to frame size or set to frame size.
I like to make sure all of my GoPro video
are published in 4K because it optimizes them
for uploading to YouTube and they look better on YouTube.
Also, if you wanna a trial Premiere Pro,
I'll put a link in the description.
I know most of you guys,
aren't gonna be using Adobe Premiere Pro
to edit your three 60 videos.
So let's run through
how a beginner might take a 360 video off their GoPro Max
and put it onto their smartphone.
Now I will preface this by saying, I am using an iPhone XS.
This app doesn't work as well on Android as it does on iOS.
I've had plenty of questions and concerns
about the Android version,
it doesn't have certain features that the iOS version has
so it is far more beneficial for you iPhone users
than it is for Android users.
So once you have downloaded the GoPro app
and it is on your smartphone,
click on it, open it and connect to your GoPro Max.
I will then choose to view the media,
connect to my GoPro Max
and displayed will be all of the content
I have recently captured.
Clicking into my latest 360 clip,
I'm able to use my smartphone
to display the 360 content in a virtual reality, so to say.
If you didn't take on my second tip in this video,
which was to capture short clips,
then this would be the perfect opportunity
to trim your clip off your SD card
before you save it to your smartphone.
I however have captured a short clip of 90 seconds.
So I'm downloading the entire clip
and it will be saved on my smartphone.
Once you have the content saved to your smartphone,
you can then choose to edit it,
create key frames, over capture it,
and essentially turn it into something
which you will later upload onto your Instagram
or social media accounts.
So it's very simple to over capture, it's very intuitive,
you just pinch and pull on the smart phone
and start creating key frames.
Now, the beautiful thing is I've created entire tutorial
on how to best do this up here in the cars.
The tutorial linked in the cars
will teach you how to continue doing this on your mobile
or if you prefer to edit on your desktop.
I also run you through how to create freeze motion effects,
both here on mobile and on your desktop.
So what's that next?
And that's it Guys.
Thank you so much for checking out this video.
I hope this has helped you on your way
with getting stuck into creating GoPro Max content.
If you are interested in trialing some color grading
or shooting in GoPro flat,
I'll put a link to the color lots
in the description of this video
so you can download those free.
Also, if you wanna check out some,
any other tutorials or tips video on GoPro
or GoPro HERO 8, I'll link them up here in the cards
or in the descripy below.
I'll see you guys in the next upload.
JL,
peace.
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