I wondered if the title was a bit too vague considering the content in the video, but since 99% of getting a good image from gopros come from getting the look correct in camera, I thought it was fair to use that title. Thank you.
I am just getting into TH-cam and creating videos and really appreciate this guide! I have been struggling to get quality videos and struggling with TH-cam compressing my videos down. You answered almost everything on post production in one great video, Thanks!
4:40 - Ouch! Didn't expect this kind of content. Almost moved my hands towards the notebook to protect from the coming tree😀 I like how you explain the technical details and smoothly share your knowledge without being an arrogant goose like some other vloggers. Thanks!
I am so thankful to find out about this video. And I'm excited to use my GoPro hero 9 in Davinci resolve! hope to see more of this kind of content about Davinci resolve and GoPro using mac. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!
bro i don't really sub to ppl JUST because I'm not on youtube like that but bro you killed it with this video and its a year old and still going strong! hope you got more because i just liked and subscribed
Just discovered your channel and love the videos with the edits! Great that you share and teach useful information and tips! :) Just ordered your LUT package and they look so great for Scandinavian forests and environments. Cheers from Finland! :)
@@MarkusFinholt I live in the southern parts so the environment is pretty flat-ish, but we do have quite nice and super technical trails here though. Pretty lucky to live near good trails. Biking in Norway is definitely on my bucket list!
just got my gopro hero 5 black really impressed with the quality im here to take my footage to another level , mainly gonna use it for recording the rides on my MTB
Excellent information and great pacing, thanks a lot for making this video! Excited to take my Hero 9 out on some runs in Tokyo and work with the footage in Resolve afterwards!
I just came upon that video, Thank you so much for all that. I struggle a getting quality image with manual shutter speed and ND filter though shoot 4k 16:9 30fps with 120 shutter and nd32 for full sunny day. I have blurriness on movement ( Fly Fishing POV)
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. A ND 32 will make the footage really dark on normal sunny days. You say you have blurriness on movement, but do you want to not have blur? If you don't want blur, you don't need to use ND filters. A slower shutter makes it more blurry. If you still find it to be too bright with an ND 32, and you want blur, you can try downloading Gopro Labs, and use a custom shutter of somewhere between 1/120 and 1/240. I personally use 1/160 now on all my shots.
hello sir, i just want to ask you something about those settings. Are those applicable too for motovlogging, or just for mtb and skiing vlogs? And can you suggest what white balance should I use in different weather and lighting conditions (e.g. cloudy, daylight but raining, evening vlogs) thank you sir in advance :)
Not if recording gopro flat. Because the primaries are Rec709 its only the gamma curve you need to correct for, which is not that flat. So it's easy to just increase contrast and get a nice image.
The LUT's creator should tell you what input and output color space it is. But sometimes you can't know. Then you should open the LUT in notepad and see if they've written anything there. If not, you can always try it and see if it looks good.
Gopro flat is still the same color space as Rec709 as far as I know. The "flat" setting is only about the log base, which is more logarithmic than rec709. However, there are some experimental features on gopro labs that can use a wide gamut.
why use full manual? it clearly breaks down at places like 3:36 ... most clips look either overexposed or underexposed or both :| Also I think you need to use "native" white balance in order to get an actually flat picture. I noticed that after using 5500k for a while..
Higher ISOs and a changing shutter speed is the number one way to ruin your footage. Leaving those on manual and setting the exposure with an ND filter is perfectly fine if you have controlled light. The example you listed at 3:36 is actually how I percieved it in real life, 5 seconds of super dark forest. If you have a lot of changing bright and dark scenes, then obviously leaving everything on manual won't work. Then you could set the max ISO to a bit higher than the min ISO. Gopro is better at underexposing than overexposing, so it's usually better to leave some headroom and brighten it in post. Native white balance has nothing to do with how flat the picture is. Native is just for extremely special occations where you would need to record sensor data AFAIK. I can't find any official information about how to correct native WB from gopro, so you would need a color chart to fix the colors correctly. Using 5500k is the right thing to do if you're shooting outside in daylight. They even do this in big productions with high end cameras. So there is even less reason to not do it with gopros.
Absolutely that is the most basic way to do things. But fast shutter speeds are known for making videos seem very digital. A slower shutter speed makes it less choppy, and more real. A shutter of 1/50 is normal for cinema, but for gopro videos that's a bit slow, when there is so much movement, and especially when you want to have digital stabilization. But if you don't mind choppy frames, or are shooting on a higher framerate, ND filters are not nessecary.
Awesome tutorial! It seems like you have a total diffrent approach to ND Filters, everybody says framerate x2 = Shutterspeed but this destroys the stabilization of the Camera. Do you always use 1/120 shutter speed? Will it not be over exposed?
Shutterspeed x2 framerate is an ancient trick that gives a very natural rendition at the lower framerates, and was needed to make 24 fps seem natural. This trick isn't as solid for very fast motion, where a faster shutter will make you see more of the action. The reason I always set the shutter to minimum 170 (with gopro labs) is that less than that always makes jitters witt digital stabilization. As long as you're using a strong enough ND filter, you can film with whatever shutter you want.
@@MarkusFinholtdo you have recommendations for indoor/low light so there is no grain on the gopro 12, i have tried many youtubers recommendations but my footage still suffers from grain/noise and jitters but thats probably because of hypersmooth
This is already a very simplified tutorial that leaves out quite a bit of information. If you want a simpler tutorial, just use the gopro how it works straight out of the box. It takes a lot of knowledge to manipulate the image to be better than what Gopros tone mapping is doing. Most people will not be able to create better contrast ratios than the natural tone mapping that's happening in the Gopro Natural / Color modes.
Thanks a lot for this explainatio. But I have few questions. I own GoPro Max, do you think Adobe Premiere can give me similar results as far as colour grading and correction goes. As you know with Max you first have to reframe 360 videos, but I don't think Resolve has that option(plugin). Should I just stick with Premiere and finish job ther, with colour correction and than adjustment layers and LUTs, or should I reframe and export each video separately and then edit them in Resolve with music and all that... Than you a lot and keep up the good work.
You can achieve the same results in Premiere, but the math in davinci resolve is done in a way that preserves information a lot better than Premiere pro. I would suggest rendering out the project in premiere without transitions and titles. Then you import the finished file into resolve, use the "cut match" tool to cut up the video. Then you proceed to grade it in resolve and export as a final video.
@@pavledjuricic1520 Alternatively, export an XML from premiere, and open the XML in resolve. If it works, it's way faster, but if the timeline is very complicated, it might not work.
Hey Markus, question about H.264 vs HEVC. On my Hero 8, 4K 4:3 is restricted to using HEVC compression. What is the best codec for TH-cam uploads? Does H.264 give us better video quality?
TH-cam converts all videos to either MPEG4 or VP9, depending on pixel count. Videos above 1440p are converted to VP9, which compresses the video less. So the codec you upload in should have virtually 0 to do with the quality. However, if you're recording in HEVC (which is just a different name for h.265), you need less bitrate to achieve the same results. So a video with 100Mbps video, encoded with h.265 will have more information than a video recorded with 100Mbps as h.264. Basically, upload as whatever codec you want, it's so heavily compressed that it basically doesn't matter anyway.
for et startkamera er gopro 7 silver et fantastisk kamera. du kan absolutt få samme kvalitet som jeg fikk i denne videoen hvis du veit hva du driver med.
Hey bro. I would love to do a colab with you! I shoot FPV footage and am color blind and would be sick to share your tips on my channel and maybe for you to edit a clip of moine to teach how to edit FPV footage? Thoughts welcome! Or ill give you the clip and you edit it (along with some of my other editing mate on YT) to see If people and I can learn anything.
Decent video; some good tips in here. Ont thing I do though, I record 2.7k60 4:3 for head mounted videos. I like 4:3 because I crop to 16:9 in post to get the shot I want and don't have to be so conscious about framing perfectly.
4:3 is obviously more true to life than superview, since superview essentially is a fake video format. However you're sacrificing so much FOV if you're cropping from 4:3 to 16:9 in post that I would never use anything else than superview for POV shots.
Really great video. Thank you. Where do you get your LUTs from for Davinci Resolve? Can you get many for free? I only seem to be able to find paid for ones, and most of them look like they're the typical bullshit 'content creator' money making schemes.
I got them from a filmmaker I worked with once in a school course. They are pretty good, but I don't own any of them. So I can't share them unfortunately. All LUTs can be created from within resolve, but obviously they require a lot of hours of knowledge and skill to replicate. If you can't find any good LUTs for free, there is no shame in buying some good LUT packs for lets say 20 bucks. The time you save in learning about 'look development' aka creating LUTs, can be spent better on working for an hour on a real job to pay for the LUTs instead. But yeah, some are not very good purchases. You want to avoid any 'log to rec709' LUTs, and make sure the LUTs are designed for REC709.
This is so much more than just color grading. This is an approach and outline for making an entire production. Really great work man
I wondered if the title was a bit too vague considering the content in the video, but since 99% of getting a good image from gopros come from getting the look correct in camera, I thought it was fair to use that title. Thank you.
Incredible information for free. You are awesome.
Damn, you know how to make a good tutorial. Perfect lamen-term level explanations with just the right pacing and level of detail. Subscribed!
Very informative! I didn't know that getting a GoPro would also mean I must learn so much!! Thank you for the clear, precise information and examples.
You don't need to do any of this if you just want a good image. This guide helps you push for that 10% extra quality increase.
My compliments, good choices in using the different tools to enhance the beauty of your scenes without destroying their natural balance. Well done.
This is absolutely amazing. I am really trying to use what I have and take it to the next step. Thank you so much!
GoPro Tutorial of the year! Amazing content!
Thank you so much, this video has been the most useful in regards to setting up my gopro and how to actually color grade flat footage.
Glad to help!
I am just getting into TH-cam and creating videos and really appreciate this guide! I have been struggling to get quality videos and struggling with TH-cam compressing my videos down. You answered almost everything on post production in one great video, Thanks!
4:40 - Ouch! Didn't expect this kind of content. Almost moved my hands towards the notebook to protect from the coming tree😀
I like how you explain the technical details and smoothly share your knowledge without being an arrogant goose like some other vloggers. Thanks!
I am so thankful to find out about this video. And I'm excited to use my GoPro hero 9 in Davinci resolve! hope to see more of this kind of content about Davinci resolve and GoPro using mac. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!
bro i don't really sub to ppl JUST because I'm not on youtube like that but bro you killed it with this video and its a year old and still going strong! hope you got more because i just liked and subscribed
Thank you my guy! I have liked and wrote this comment even before finishing the video.
Just discovered your channel and love the videos with the edits!
Great that you share and teach useful information and tips! :) Just ordered your LUT package and they look so great for Scandinavian forests and environments.
Cheers from Finland! :)
Glad you like them! Is biking in Finland cool? I've been to Levi bike park, but crashed on the first run...
@@MarkusFinholt I live in the southern parts so the environment is pretty flat-ish, but we do have quite nice and super technical trails here though.
Pretty lucky to live near good trails.
Biking in Norway is definitely on my bucket list!
Amazing video bro! As a complete noob, this helps me out a lot.
Superb! Very clear and well presented. Thanks
best video for push GoPro on the limit! thanks bro
just got my gopro hero 5 black really impressed with the quality im here to take my footage to another level , mainly gonna use it for recording the rides on my MTB
This has been super helpful for me. Covered everything I was looking for and a few things I didn't know I should learn about! Thanks!
Really great video. It was easy to understand and follow and very helpful!
Footage looks great man! Well done
Great information and great vid!
Excellent information and great pacing, thanks a lot for making this video! Excited to take my Hero 9 out on some runs in Tokyo and work with the footage in Resolve afterwards!
Genial! nuevo suscriptor, te deseo lo mejor y decirte que eres un Crack! al compartir tu conocimiento sobre el Grading color.
great video man ! tanks for the tips
Thank you go much!!! Amazing detail.
Great vid, learned a lot!
thanks for tutorial it was amazing :)
Dope intro mate!
Thanks bud, appreciate the videos. :)
Great video!
hello my friend, what does p mean as a coefficient in your shutter speed demos? 50p,25p etc. thank you and great video
frames per second.
Did you use 4k 60fps wide in this clip, 1:50 or 4k 30fps superview?
Wow!! I Absorbed So Much! .. I'm Subscribing.
Have you had a chance to use the new 13 yet? Curious on your thoughts about flat vs GP-log and on denoise setting.
I have not purchased the hero 13. Gopro flat with less noise reduction is perfectly fine for 99% of cases.
bro, thank you so much for this
Great Information .. thanks..
I just came upon that video, Thank you so much for all that.
I struggle a getting quality image with manual shutter speed and ND filter though shoot 4k 16:9 30fps with 120 shutter and nd32 for full sunny day.
I have blurriness on movement ( Fly Fishing POV)
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. A ND 32 will make the footage really dark on normal sunny days. You say you have blurriness on movement, but do you want to not have blur? If you don't want blur, you don't need to use ND filters. A slower shutter makes it more blurry.
If you still find it to be too bright with an ND 32, and you want blur, you can try downloading Gopro Labs, and use a custom shutter of somewhere between 1/120 and 1/240. I personally use 1/160 now on all my shots.
@@MarkusFinholt yeah i was shooting at 30fps with shutter 1/60 has it is it's double, that was my bad
hello sir, i just want to ask you something about those settings. Are those applicable too for motovlogging, or just for mtb and skiing vlogs? And can you suggest what white balance should I use in different weather and lighting conditions (e.g. cloudy, daylight but raining, evening vlogs) thank you sir in advance :)
what tool do you use for lens correction in DaVinci? the only thing missing in DaVinci is GoPro reframe plugin
I don't do any lens corrections on Gopro footage.
Takk for bra info, skal begynne å legge ut litt mer sånt jeg og👍😃
Is there no need for color management (cst) for GoPro's?
Thanks.
Not if recording gopro flat. Because the primaries are Rec709 its only the gamma curve you need to correct for, which is not that flat. So it's easy to just increase contrast and get a nice image.
thanks alot, that was very hrlpful. I am Using gopro with fpv drone.
From where do you know whether a lut is in another color profile or not?
The LUT's creator should tell you what input and output color space it is. But sometimes you can't know. Then you should open the LUT in notepad and see if they've written anything there. If not, you can always try it and see if it looks good.
Is GP Flat ptofile a Rec709 color space or wider?
Gopro flat is still the same color space as Rec709 as far as I know. The "flat" setting is only about the log base, which is more logarithmic than rec709. However, there are some experimental features on gopro labs that can use a wide gamut.
why use full manual? it clearly breaks down at places like 3:36 ... most clips look either overexposed or underexposed or both :|
Also I think you need to use "native" white balance in order to get an actually flat picture. I noticed that after using 5500k for a while..
Higher ISOs and a changing shutter speed is the number one way to ruin your footage. Leaving those on manual and setting the exposure with an ND filter is perfectly fine if you have controlled light. The example you listed at 3:36 is actually how I percieved it in real life, 5 seconds of super dark forest. If you have a lot of changing bright and dark scenes, then obviously leaving everything on manual won't work. Then you could set the max ISO to a bit higher than the min ISO. Gopro is better at underexposing than overexposing, so it's usually better to leave some headroom and brighten it in post.
Native white balance has nothing to do with how flat the picture is. Native is just for extremely special occations where you would need to record sensor data AFAIK. I can't find any official information about how to correct native WB from gopro, so you would need a color chart to fix the colors correctly. Using 5500k is the right thing to do if you're shooting outside in daylight. They even do this in big productions with high end cameras. So there is even less reason to not do it with gopros.
why not just plug the lav mic into the gopro?
It doesn't take 3.5mm input
A question, why should you use nd filters? Can't you just bump up the shutter speed to darken the image?
Absolutely that is the most basic way to do things. But fast shutter speeds are known for making videos seem very digital. A slower shutter speed makes it less choppy, and more real. A shutter of 1/50 is normal for cinema, but for gopro videos that's a bit slow, when there is so much movement, and especially when you want to have digital stabilization. But if you don't mind choppy frames, or are shooting on a higher framerate, ND filters are not nessecary.
Awesome tutorial!
It seems like you have a total diffrent approach to ND Filters, everybody says framerate x2 = Shutterspeed but this destroys the stabilization of the Camera.
Do you always use 1/120 shutter speed?
Will it not be over exposed?
Shutterspeed x2 framerate is an ancient trick that gives a very natural rendition at the lower framerates, and was needed to make 24 fps seem natural. This trick isn't as solid for very fast motion, where a faster shutter will make you see more of the action. The reason I always set the shutter to minimum 170 (with gopro labs) is that less than that always makes jitters witt digital stabilization.
As long as you're using a strong enough ND filter, you can film with whatever shutter you want.
What about stabilization in post like Reelsteady or GyroFlow? Are these affected by 180 shutter angle as well?@@MarkusFinholt
@@Razertw Yes, since they are digital and not optical stabilization.
nice job bro
does this apply to gopro12 also or you have some other settings?
same principles applies to all gopros
@@MarkusFinholtdo you have recommendations for indoor/low light so there is no grain on the gopro 12, i have tried many youtubers recommendations but my footage still suffers from grain/noise and jitters but thats probably because of hypersmooth
Hvilken pc og spec må du ha for å drive dette redigeringsprogrammet? :)
Det er anbefalt 8gb VRAM for å exportere 4k. Men man kan klippe med mye mindre så lenge man bruker proxies.
Can you make a simple tutorial? this looks so professional
This is already a very simplified tutorial that leaves out quite a bit of information. If you want a simpler tutorial, just use the gopro how it works straight out of the box. It takes a lot of knowledge to manipulate the image to be better than what Gopros tone mapping is doing. Most people will not be able to create better contrast ratios than the natural tone mapping that's happening in the Gopro Natural / Color modes.
Thanks a lot for this explainatio. But I have few questions. I own GoPro Max, do you think Adobe Premiere can give me similar results as far as colour grading and correction goes. As you know with Max you first have to reframe 360 videos, but I don't think Resolve has that option(plugin). Should I just stick with Premiere and finish job ther, with colour correction and than adjustment layers and LUTs, or should I reframe and export each video separately and then edit them in Resolve with music and all that... Than you a lot and keep up the good work.
You can achieve the same results in Premiere, but the math in davinci resolve is done in a way that preserves information a lot better than Premiere pro. I would suggest rendering out the project in premiere without transitions and titles. Then you import the finished file into resolve, use the "cut match" tool to cut up the video. Then you proceed to grade it in resolve and export as a final video.
@@MarkusFinholt Oh now I see, thank you a lot, I will try that method when I start editing project.
@@pavledjuricic1520 Alternatively, export an XML from premiere, and open the XML in resolve. If it works, it's way faster, but if the timeline is very complicated, it might not work.
can you make one for premiere pro also?
Thanks! No, sorry. I don't have the time to make another guide, but the principles of this video should be indentical to what is happening in Resolve.
Hey Markus, question about H.264 vs HEVC. On my Hero 8, 4K 4:3 is restricted to using HEVC compression. What is the best codec for TH-cam uploads? Does H.264 give us better video quality?
TH-cam converts all videos to either MPEG4 or VP9, depending on pixel count. Videos above 1440p are converted to VP9, which compresses the video less. So the codec you upload in should have virtually 0 to do with the quality.
However, if you're recording in HEVC (which is just a different name for h.265), you need less bitrate to achieve the same results. So a video with 100Mbps video, encoded with h.265 will have more information than a video recorded with 100Mbps as h.264.
Basically, upload as whatever codec you want, it's so heavily compressed that it basically doesn't matter anyway.
Hei, driver med både snowboard og mtb men har litt stramt budsjett. Tror du dette funker like bra på silver versjonen av hero 7?
for et startkamera er gopro 7 silver et fantastisk kamera. du kan absolutt få samme kvalitet som jeg fikk i denne videoen hvis du veit hva du driver med.
@@MarkusFinholt Noen tips? Ser at silver versjonen er lit mer begrenset på video innstillinger.
@@markusthorsnes141 Bare bruk akkurat de samme tipsa som jeg prata om i denne videoen så får du gode resultater
@@MarkusFinholt Okay, takk for svar😄
Hey bro. I would love to do a colab with you! I shoot FPV footage and am color blind and would be sick to share your tips on my channel and maybe for you to edit a clip of moine to teach how to edit FPV footage? Thoughts welcome! Or ill give you the clip and you edit it (along with some of my other editing mate on YT) to see If people and I can learn anything.
Hei. Hvilken redigerings programm bruker du til GoPro?
Davinci Resolve 17
Kommer ikke sykt langt med typ null innstillinger på Hero Session 😅
hero session 5 har akkurat det man trenger, men vet ikke med den vanlige hero session
Decent video; some good tips in here. Ont thing I do though, I record 2.7k60 4:3 for head mounted videos. I like 4:3 because I crop to 16:9 in post to get the shot I want and don't have to be so conscious about framing perfectly.
4:3 is obviously more true to life than superview, since superview essentially is a fake video format. However you're sacrificing so much FOV if you're cropping from 4:3 to 16:9 in post that I would never use anything else than superview for POV shots.
speaking another language lol hard to relate but learned a lot tho
subscribe for same hobbies. Love it
Really great video. Thank you. Where do you get your LUTs from for Davinci Resolve? Can you get many for free? I only seem to be able to find paid for ones, and most of them look like they're the typical bullshit 'content creator' money making schemes.
I got them from a filmmaker I worked with once in a school course. They are pretty good, but I don't own any of them. So I can't share them unfortunately. All LUTs can be created from within resolve, but obviously they require a lot of hours of knowledge and skill to replicate. If you can't find any good LUTs for free, there is no shame in buying some good LUT packs for lets say 20 bucks. The time you save in learning about 'look development' aka creating LUTs, can be spent better on working for an hour on a real job to pay for the LUTs instead.
But yeah, some are not very good purchases. You want to avoid any 'log to rec709' LUTs, and make sure the LUTs are designed for REC709.