{"id":7250,"date":"2017-10-18T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2017-10-18T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:16:02","slug":"tips-first-weeks-gopro-action-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/tips-first-weeks-gopro-action-camera.htm","title":{"rendered":"Some tips from my first few weeks with a GoPro Hero action camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in having a play with an action camera for a while now. I figure I\u00a0can get some fun footage on the bikes, as well as ski-ing next winter, and I missed not having a waterproof camera when I was lake-swimming in Switzerland a few weeks ago!<\/p>\n<p>So, when I saw that a contact who had upgraded to the Hero 5 was selling his GoPro Hero 3 Silver Edition, I jumped at the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>My camera came to me with quite a few accessories and <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyking.com\/\">I picked up some more for not too much money at HobbyKing<\/a> (shipped from China in 3 weeks &#8211; don&#8217;t pay GoPro prices for things like a tripod mount or a lens\u00a0cover!).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst getting used to the camera&#8217;s controls (oh yes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZwVoMJaBLeM\">opening the waterproof case<\/a> for the first time), I came across some useful tips on the &#8216;net&#8230; including loads of videos from a guy called Bryn, whose new users guide was useful to make sure I had everything set up as I needed:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9cUKHhZjm8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Once I had everything set up and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ghT7sw\">a fast 64GB card<\/a>\u00a0installed, My first outing on a bike with the GoPro was helmet-mounted. That was OK, but it&#8217;s a bit weird having all that weight on your head and also not too handy for working out if the camera is running or not. Since then, I&#8217;ve got a bike mount so when my GoPro is mounted on my bike, I have it below the stem, which means technically it&#8217;s upside-down:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bike mount for my GoPro arrived this week&#8230; fitted on the bike then realised it\u2019s against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishCycling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BritishCycling<\/a> rules :-( <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SHEh9pmdgG\">https:\/\/t.co\/SHEh9pmdgG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/24qa1nU1Vg\">pic.twitter.com\/24qa1nU1Vg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Wilson ???? (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/919225086909079557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No worries &#8211; the Internet delivered another video telling me how to set the camera up for upside down recording:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qS6sbZpaUc8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>One thing to watch out for is the battery life &#8211; don&#8217;t expect to be filling your memory card on a single battery\u00a0&#8211; but it should last a while. It&#8217;s just that a GoPro isn&#8217;t going to work as a DashCam or similar (there are actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/car-tech-key-concepts-534885\">some good articles on the &#8216;net as to why you would probably want to use a specialist dashcam anyway<\/a> &#8211; I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yvBNIL\">NextBase 402G<\/a> for that). Anyway,\u00a0I don&#8217;t want to have to edit hours of footage so knowing I can only record a few minutes at a time is good for me (I have hours of recordings on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DV\">MiniDV digital tape<\/a> that have been waiting to be transferred to disk for years!).<\/p>\n<p>I did recently use\u00a0the GoPro to record some presentations at work: great for a wide angle view &#8211; but it got pretty warm being plugged into a power source the whole time (so again, a proper video camera would be the right thing to use &#8211; and don&#8217;t think about using a DSLR or a compact camera &#8211; I tried that too and they generally switch off after 20-30 mins to\u00a0prevent overheating). One thing I found is that each video recorded on the GoPro is chopped into chunks of around 3.55MB (I was recording 1080p). The file naming is worth getting used to.<\/p>\n<p>Each video uses the same number (0001, 0002, etc.) but you&#8217;ll find that the first one is named GOPR0001.MP4, the next is GP010001.MP4, then GP020001.MP4, etc. So, when selecting a group of files that relate to the same recording, look carefully at the index numbers (the date and time stamp should help too).<\/p>\n<p>Also, depending on how you import the videos (i.e. copying\u00a0directly rather than using an application like MacOS Image Capture), you may see some .THM and .LRV files. <a href=\"https:\/\/gopro.com\/help\/articles\/Question_Answer\/What-are-thm-and-lrv-files\">The GoPro support site explains that these are <\/a>thumbnail and low-resolution video files respectively.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s a few things I&#8217;ve discovered over the last few weeks and just a little bit of GoPro tinkering. Please leave a comment if you&#8217;ve anything more to add!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in having a play with an action camera for a while now. I figure I\u00a0can get some fun footage on the bikes, as well as ski-ing next winter, and I missed not having a waterproof camera when I was lake-swimming in Switzerland a few weeks ago! So, when I saw that a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/tips-first-weeks-gopro-action-camera.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some tips from my first few weeks with a GoPro Hero action camera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,218],"tags":[664,170],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-technology","tag-gopro","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some tips from my first few weeks with a GoPro Hero action camera - 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