Action cam tips

[yojimbo]

how are you getting such a clear shots in your video? my video quality once i upload to youtube/vimeo is total shit once it goes through compression.

can you post your video settings. thx.

i love the line mount, but i'm mainly interested in improving my down-the-line surfing on a wave.

[POACHER]

You're correct, the native version of the movie is always much better than the uploaded/compressed copy.
It can be pretty bad when uploaded to Youtube/Vimeo. Youtube has gained a little in higher frame rates and HD quality. If I'm not mistaken, when you have a subscription to Vimeo it uses less compression and gains quality.

[ced1]

how are you getting such a clear shots in your video? my video quality once i upload to youtube/vimeo is total shit once it goes through compression.

can you post your video settings. thx.

i love the line mount, but i'm mainly interested in improving my down-the-line surfing on a wave.

Obviously it is important to keep the Original format all the way through the editing and dumping of final edit.

When I have good internet connection, I use the following compression settings to upload:

Description: H.264 video at 8 Mbps with AAC 44.1kHz audio
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 3.6 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width and Height: Up to 1280 x 720
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: Preserve source aspect ratio
(L: 0, T: 0, R: 0, B: 0)
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 8 (Mbps)

[ced1]

This is my latest video with just a line mount and a mouth Mount. Had to go slow motion to be able to use most of the line mount stuff as otherwise it gets too bumpy.

[jeromeL]

nice edit, you don't like to up the vibrancy/saturation and blue a bit more when editing the video?
I guess you don't need much of it but on overcast days in new york if I don't play around with colors video looks really flat and sad. Sometimes the clouds are pretty dramatic on gopro footage and you don't need to do much except up contrast a bit.
I usually overdo it and end up with orange hands on footage lol. I crashed my pc and now using an older one so can't really preview rendering much of the correction before rendering the whole thing.

Lately a lot of my footage are a lot blurrier than usual, i don't know whether camera is old (late 2014) or if it's because the water case is scratch a bit.

that's a facebook video, click to play.
https://www.facebook.com/jerome.loman/v ... 250025898/
https://www.facebook.com/jerome.loman/v ... 7250025898

[edt]

how are you getting such a clear shots in your video? my video quality once i upload to youtube/vimeo is total shit once it goes through compression.

can you post your video settings. thx.

i love the line mount, but i'm mainly interested in improving my down-the-line surfing on a wave.

there are a few "native" formats for youtube and vimeo where their video effects processors won't touch it.

use their specified formats from this link:

youtube:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171

vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/help/compression

If you use the ones they specify your video (at least this is what they claim and it seems to be true) it will not be touched by the compressor and it will look the same as it does on your home computer.

Note that they added 4k to both youtube and vimeo in the last couple of years, so use that if you have it.

I notice that ced1 is using one of the youtube recommended settings.

[Peter_Frank]

Ced1 awesome video

jeromeL yours too, great video But no, I think the colours and blue are exaggerated (just like if you have ever watched CSI Miami, simply too much and not "natural" nomore...)

I know this is impossible to agree on though, as a photographer and many friends, some says "it is just like THEIR minds see the colours" - and I am more boring saying, "It does not look right and natural"

Peter

[jeromeL]

Ced1 awesome video

jeromeL yours too, great video But no, I think the colours and blue are exaggerated (just like if you have ever watched CSI Miami, simply too much and not "natural" nomore...)

I know this is impossible to agree on though, as a photographer and many friends, some says "it is just like THEIR minds see the colours" - and I am more boring saying, "It does not look right and natural"

Peter

I agree I did too much, my good computer is dead and as soon as I make an adjustment the preview is awful and I can't tell until I render the whole thing so too much work to get it right... I'll try to do better next time.
Sometimes the water and cloud is pretty flat with a bit of adjustment you can get a bit more details else it looks pretty boring. Like some of the snow kite video where you basically see all while 80% of the screen...

With right light and sun direction you don't need to adjust much.

[ced1]

nice edit, you don't like to up the vibrancy/saturation and blue a bit more when editing the video?

Actually I do sometimes tweak it, as you mentioned, especially on overcast days. But I do try and keep it natural, unless I'm going for a specific effect on the edit.

Lately a lot of my footage are a lot blurrier than usual, i don't know whether camera is old (late 2014) or if it's because the water case is scratch a bit.

I do find that when the case lens is scratched it gets blurry, I think the water tends to stick to the lens more. You can quite easily buy replacement lens and I've gotten into the habit of putting a protection cap on it when not in use.

Note that they added 4k to both youtube and vimeo in the last couple of years, so use that if you have it.

I notice that ced1 is using one of the youtube recommended settings.

I must say I haven't ventured into editing in 4K, I think maybe when I upgrade to next generation computer. I find it cumbersome to edit.

Ced1 awesome video

Thanks

[Peter_Frank]

Agree jeromeL, generally it is very often necessary to correct the colours a bit sometimes even a lot, as the white balance goes off easy, especially if overcast or darker.

On the other hand, these cams are often set to, or got a, "Vivid" colour by nature, so often it is more than adequate when sunny.

As said, also personal preference - but no cam has a "default" colour that works in all conditions, they can NOT get the whitebalance right in all cases.
So you are not aiming for tweaking something to something "more than reality" - often it is the loss in the cam in some conditions, you simply correct so it looks like what your eye can see

Peter