HI folks

 

I'm very shortly going to be buying the above - i'm told it outperforms the Hero 3 Black (which i've seen footage from and was impressed).

 

The footage, which will be captured on my motorcycle will have to be edited and presented professionally on YouTube with captions, welcome screen etc etc (needs to be super slick) is where i probably need the most work and therefore help!

 

These videos will be advanced motorcycle tuition videos for my training school and i'm a complete newbie to all of this (even the Go Pro side of things)!

 

I don't know where to start, what the lingo all means, and how to do any of it.

 

I'll be buying a suction mount and a tubular bar mount for the Go Pro and i'm told i'll need a class 10 Micro SD - whatever that is.

 

Can any of you guys help with any part of this and point me in the right direction, help with preferred settings, advice on how to edit, put up on YT etc etc.

 

To be honest, it's all quite daunting.  I could (and no doubt will) google much of this but was looking for any friendly words of wisdom first if possible?

 

(my last experience of a video camera was when you had to put a casette in and i have only ever used YouTube for endless hours of 'browsing' however, i'm reasonable with a computer as a 34 year old but certainly no mega whiz)

 

Thanks very much.

 

Dave :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YouTube compresses the footage, so the quality will actually be better on the camera than on YouTube when it's done.

So you don't need such a high end camera if you want to get something a little cheaper or 2nd hand.

 

I'd suggest getting some basic video editing software and having a play with that.

The class 10 SD card refer to the data transfer speed by the way.  Lower class cards might struggle to store such high quality footage quickly enough.

Higher number = better.

 

I had some GoPro 3 Black cameras previously, but my 4 versions arrived today.

Not had chance to play with them yet.

 

There is quite a choice of video editing software.

I use Videopad Video Editor because it's relatively cheap and easy to use.  Have done for a few years.

But it doesn't have loads of fancy features, you might want something more advanced.

From a non-expert - I had horrendous experience about 5 years ago trying to output a simple non-HD  slide-show video with a music track.

 

Not matter what I did, I couldn't eliminate some instances of audio distortion in the final version. I think this was caused by the editing/production software (Early version of Windows Movie maker), in slimming down the final  package to a format acceptable for You Tube, the  compression algorhythm kept getting overloaded with data at times when the video + audio was changing quickly. To be honest, I wasn't sure whether this was caused by either the slow hardware I was using or Windows Os or the Movie maker package (Hardware was an Asus board with embedded Ati 4000 series graphics processor, AMD Athlon twin core processor, 2 GB memory, conventional hard disk and Windows Vista Pro). I have to say that the final production of the slide-show, which was only 5-6 minutes long, took an excruciating time for the computer to process and save to disk - 40 minutes from recall.

 

Since then, I haven't done anything with video, but I would imagine that the data threshold for HD is considerably greater.

 

So perhaps the prescription for trouble-free editing/production is to start with good, fast  hardware and a decent OS - Movie maker combination.

 

I wouldn't have thought most "Bog-standard" laptops are up to the job as they probably have embedded graphics chips rather than the "Full Monty" separate graphics cards. So you are talking about a desktop, and probably a mid-range PC with good graphics i.e. probably a games machine. A machine that's capable enough with graphics data handling and saves to memory/disk that it won't bottleneck the compression algorhythms input side when you comes to saving the final product.

 

Interesting to know what these guys were using:-

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbPgw9tBao

 

Though I suspect this a commercial product for viral promotion purposes.

 

 

Nick

Edited 10 November, 201411 yr by Clunkclick

 

Interesting to know what these guys were using:-

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbPgw9tBao

 

 

Nick

 

 

Says under video they are using after effect pretty top drawer for range and quality of editing (too much for me to learn to use) 

 

"Edit with Adobe Premiere & Adobe After Effect"

 

I use 'trakAxPC' as a fairly cheap and easy one to get into. It doesn't need much in the way of PC performance to run either. If I am just ripping a single clip or front and rear ones of dash cam I use 'Any Video Converter' as it's free and fast. 

I've used Go Pro cameras for years for filming my Montain Biking runs. They are easy to use and the quality is brilliant.

 

If you film in HD (which you will) the file sizes are quite large so you need to make sure the PC you will be storing / editing the footage has plenty of free hard drisc space.

 

Software wise I use Serif Movie Plus X6. The software is slick and easy to use by novices and advanced users alike, plus it has an ability to export the video out as an YouTube friendly format. Or even directly to YouTube if you link your account to it.

I'd suggest getting some basic video editing software and having a play with that.

What software would you suggest ?

I am borrowing a gopro Hero 3 black edition in December when I go skiing - I've bid on a helmet mount, and hopefully will win the auction, on eBay.

The owner has two batteries and two memory cards (quite large ones if I remember rightly).

But I would like to know what software to use to edit and play about with the recordings?

JRJG

I use VideoPad Video Editor, but I bought it three years ago.

Software wise I use Serif Movie Plus X6. The software is slick and easy to use by novices and advanced users alike, plus it has an ability to export the video out as an YouTube friendly format. Or even directly to YouTube if you link your account to it.

I will have a look into this program!

I use VideoPad Video Editor, but I bought it three years ago.

How much was it to buy may I ask?

I won't be using it regularly (hence why I am borrowing the camera) and don't know if I can justify pumping a lot of funds into it...

I use 'trakAxPC' as a fairly cheap and easy one to get into. It doesn't need much in the way of PC performance to run either.

I will have a look at this too,

My laptop is running an i7 processor, 2gb of graphics and 8gb of Ram, so the performance shouldn't be a problem

JRJG

How much was it to buy may I ask?

I won't be using it regularly (hence why I am borrowing the camera) and don't know if I can justify pumping a lot of funds into it...

 

£20-30 I think.

There was a free trial version too.