I changed from a DJI action 4 to a GoPro Hero 12. What I quickly realised is how bad the default settings are on the GoPro for getting footage at night that is stabilised. After maybe 2 hours of tinkering I realised that in order to get usable footage, you need to manually lock in the shutter speed and ISO otherwise the camera tries to make everything look pretty at the expense of horrible shaky footage.
Thanks for your kind feedback! I sometimes use a CST, but it depends on what I am doing. If I am using film emulation I will use a CST because the inbuilt emulations in Resolve work on the basis of the footage having a Cineon log curve. CST is also useful for matching the look of cameras. Darren Mostyn, a professional colourist, has some great CST node setups anyone can use on his YT channel.
EXPX is MAX shutter speed. I think what you meant to do is to ensure a high enough shutter speed to minimize hypersmooth "mush" and to do that you need to set MINIMUM shutter speed which is EXPN. Please explain if I am wrong.
EXPX is most definitely the minimum shutter speed (my footage proves this, otherwise the method wouldn't work and my footage would have had motion blur all over in the dark forest). However, these days I use the EXPT command instead, which sets the maximum shutter angle (the higher the shutter angle, the more motion blur, so it's the opposite of maximum shutter speed). I have EXPT set to 3, which gives a maximum shutter angle equivalent to 45 degrees.
The Min shutter speed command does not seem to work for me. I instead use EXPT set to 2 for a min shutter speed of 4x the frame rate (i.e. 1/96 for 24 fps)
When talking about a fast SD card, how fast are we talking about? I tested the 180 bit rate with a SanDisk Extreme (V30, U3) and the recording lagged in a few moments.
To be on the safe side, I've been using V60s, but that Sandisk should be fine. There's no harm in going down to 160mbits. You should still get a good result.
@@simonwyndham Thanks for responding! I checked again on my more powerful PC and it played the 180 bit recording without any problem. My laptop, however, was not coping with 5.3k 180 bit.
If you want less noise, you can leave the noise reduction setting at its factory default and set the maximum ISO to 100. But, you won’t get low light performance or good HyperSmooth in low light conditions if you do that. The problem with a small sensor camera like the GoPro is that they aren’t low light performers, instead getting their best footage in bright sunshine.
@@simonwyndham thats maybe not ideal, my problem is not necessarily night shots but i film more in vlogging type of way where the lighting constantly changes, for example simple stepping inside a taxi gives me grain but outside the taxi is fine, or stepping into a mall or something with bad lighting etc any recommendations for that?
Excellent and accurate explanation for these key Labs features. Thank you from a GoPro Labs developer.
Thanks Dan! Glad you liked it!
I changed from a DJI action 4 to a GoPro Hero 12. What I quickly realised is how bad the default settings are on the GoPro for getting footage at night that is stabilised. After maybe 2 hours of tinkering I realised that in order to get usable footage, you need to manually lock in the shutter speed and ISO otherwise the camera tries to make everything look pretty at the expense of horrible shaky footage.
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Best low light on gopro video out there !!! Thank you so much
Man.... That was a damn good lesson. Thank you.
do you have to type these commands in or can you select these from the QR app to do this?
You generally have to type them into the Labs app, which then creates a QR code that you scan with the camera.
Lavoro perfetto! Non sono molto d'accordo sul blocco a 180... Meglio 90 secondo me. Ma sono pareri personali. Gli ISO li hai bloccati?
Heyo!
Thanks for this excellent video!
When you grade the footage, do you use some kind of color space transform, or do you just color grade by feel?
Thanks for your kind feedback! I sometimes use a CST, but it depends on what I am doing. If I am using film emulation I will use a CST because the inbuilt emulations in Resolve work on the basis of the footage having a Cineon log curve. CST is also useful for matching the look of cameras. Darren Mostyn, a professional colourist, has some great CST node setups anyone can use on his YT channel.
EXPX is MAX shutter speed. I think what you meant to do is to ensure a high enough shutter speed to minimize hypersmooth "mush" and to do that you need to set MINIMUM shutter speed which is EXPN. Please explain if I am wrong.
EXPX is most definitely the minimum shutter speed (my footage proves this, otherwise the method wouldn't work and my footage would have had motion blur all over in the dark forest). However, these days I use the EXPT command instead, which sets the maximum shutter angle (the higher the shutter angle, the more motion blur, so it's the opposite of maximum shutter speed). I have EXPT set to 3, which gives a maximum shutter angle equivalent to 45 degrees.
The Min shutter speed command does not seem to work for me. I instead use EXPT set to 2 for a min shutter speed of 4x the frame rate (i.e. 1/96 for 24 fps)
Yes, these days I have changed to using EXPT instead, though I have mine set to 3 for an equivalent to a 45-degree shutter angle.
I've a stack of Evo Plus microSD card's, are these fast enough for 180 MBITR? (I take it this is mbit read speed?)
I didn't understand one thing, if I have WIDE=1 set, should I set WB to Native for it to work properly?
No. If you set Wide to 1, you’ll get wide gamut in all white balance settings.
When talking about a fast SD card, how fast are we talking about? I tested the 180 bit rate with a SanDisk Extreme (V30, U3) and the recording lagged in a few moments.
To be on the safe side, I've been using V60s, but that Sandisk should be fine. There's no harm in going down to 160mbits. You should still get a good result.
@@simonwyndham Thanks for responding! I checked again on my more powerful PC and it played the 180 bit recording without any problem. My laptop, however, was not coping with 5.3k 180 bit.
What is the best solution for no/less noise without to edit in post
If you want less noise, you can leave the noise reduction setting at its factory default and set the maximum ISO to 100. But, you won’t get low light performance or good HyperSmooth in low light conditions if you do that. The problem with a small sensor camera like the GoPro is that they aren’t low light performers, instead getting their best footage in bright sunshine.
@@simonwyndham thats maybe not ideal, my problem is not necessarily night shots but i film more in vlogging type of way where the lighting constantly changes, for example simple stepping inside a taxi gives me grain but outside the taxi is fine, or stepping into a mall or something with bad lighting etc any recommendations for that?
excellent job but gopro lost a good number of people they scene their times. thanks for sharing