How to Make GoPro Footage More Cinematic | Settings & BTS

[Music] foreign just picked up one of these a GoPro Hero 11 black and you're wanting to turn those crappy shaky home movies into something that's cinematic something that you can post on your Instagram and YouTube and your friends comment on like wow John this is actually really good how come you didn't feel more of me to which you reply or you think to yourself well I kind of did but you didn't want a bar of it today in this video we're going to be breaking down that opening sequence shot by sh

ot running through all the juicy protune settings how to set your camera up for success and to create GoPro cinematic and guess what he got me up at 6am this morning for Sunrise because cinematics means good light so sunrise sunset golden we got it you're gonna blast you're gonna have to get out of bed yeah foreign so when it comes to creating cinematography or cinematic visuals rather than taking our word for it how about we get an insight into an established cinematographer someone like Linus

sangrene the cinematographer who worked on the latest installment of one of our favorite movies of 2022 James Bond no time to die so really the opener of any cinematic sequence is an establishing shot and it's important to look out for moments and environments on your trip that could lend themselves to this in the bond example Linus then cuts to a reaction shot and introduces us to the protagonist this is a much tighter shot which allows us to rest on the character for a moment and explore his d

etermined mindset from here we then cut to another wide however threading these shots from inside to outside the vehicle whilst also getting an alarming sense of movement through the camera's motion blur and the final shot is the same car leaving the location it's slightly tighter than the previous shot so the sequence flows from wide to tight to slightly less wide to slightly less tight setting up our very first establishing shot like we saw with the James Bond trailer now we've got this amazin

g bursting vibrant Sunrise so we want to try and capture that now the way that I want to set up my camera is I'm going to set this up shooting in let's go with 5.3 K shooting 25 frames a second we're going to use our 10-bit color profile we're going to make sure that our bitrate's notched up to high and we're just going to slowly push the camera in towards the scene we just want to create an establishing shot of the environment so that our audience can rest on this space and be like oh what's go

ing to happen there the other thing is 25 frames a second is perfect for this sort of lower light environment but if I want to add a little bit of you know if I want this to be slow-mo in my shot I'm also going to try this shot in 50 frames a second so I can slow it down in post and I'm also going to like go with that really nice wide GoPro look just to give me some you know some variety in my shot maybe it looks better you know I've got to make sure that I've got options here I want to see that

light punching through so this looks like a really nice frame rule the thirds Lighthouse is on the third slowly punching in oh the light's freaking good all right so now that we've got our landscape establishing shot in the bag we're going to move to introducing our subject and to do that we're essentially going to be pulling out from a subject starting at their feet and then slowly revealing their face for the element of surprise bit of mystery into it in terms of settings we are going to choo

se 25 frames per seconds 5.3 K the reason I choose 25 is because I don't think I'm going to slow down that shot it's not going to be a slow mo we're going to do play it full speed so I'm just going with that because there's not that much light it's still sort of sunrise at the moment what's important here is that we're going to choose the digital lens linear and the reason is we're really trying to punch in that subject and have them be the focus of the shot right and have no distraction with th

e landscape around because we've already introduced our landscape with the establishing shell it's also really important that as you're going through the process of filming that you do review your shots just make sure that you're happy with the camera movement you know and each time you can and slightly improve on the previous take that might be in terms of getting more fluidity in the movement of the camera or it's just getting the framing and the composition looking a little bit better shot nu

mber three we're gonna incorporate motion blur now a lot of people may ask like do you need ND filters yes you could use ND filters but the point here is we're going to select 25 frames a second and we're going to move the camera fairly quickly which will create the motion blur in the shot now it's important to remember that if you're shooting in the high frame rates 50 100 you're not able to get the same lifelike motion within your images so 25 frames a second we're still using our 10-bit color

profile we are still going to be shooting in flat all of these shots because we want them to all look and color grade the same in our final edit and essentially what we're going to do now is the protagonist is going to be running and we're going to be chasing them it's a tracking shot camera is going to be moving low to the ground and we're going to be moving in the same direction as our protagonist all right when it comes to shooting cinematic it's not not just about settings and settings are

important and I'm going to get into the setting of these scenes in just a second but story also matters here so we've scripted us a little story and we have to reveal our second protagonist and in order to do so we're going to go back to the field of view of linear because once again we're focusing on a single character as opposed to an entire scene we're also going to choose to shoot in a hundred frames and the reason is we want to slow down the footage so that the viewer can take time to integ

rate the information that oh wait this is a new protagonist there is a story here in terms of motion we're going to switch things around here so earlier Jake was chasing me as I was running away from the camera and so now for this shot we're going to have the reverse essentially I'm going to be running backwards and Jake is going to be coming towards the camera that way we're totally flipping the angle up the scene and just keeping people on their toes this next shot we really want to highlight

the camera's movement so we're coming back to our protagonist and what we're going to do here is we're going to circle around them we're using a super light tool oh we don't have a big rig we don't have something strapped to our back so we can be really experimental with our shots and I think this is really important to incorporate in your cinematography camera motion what we want to try and do here is we want to get that nice harmonious movement of the camera from left to right we're going to c

ircle and see which part of that circling frame really looks the nicest with the lights and the subject and the camera if you've been enjoying this video and you want to keep learning then make sure you check out the video in the cards here that teaches you how to put all these shots into a sequence in a free editing tool on your computer and if you really are enjoying this video and want to share some love then punch that thumbs up see so what are the coolest reasons as to why I shoot in 5K or

even 4k on the brand new GoPro Hero 11 is because I love to use these high-res video files to also create high-res GoPro screen grabs and essentially pretty high quality GoPro photos and edit those photos using the sponsor of today's video which is the amazing team at Skyrim and their software Lumina Neo luminar Neo harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to enhance your images with ease and I think it's one of the easiest ways to improve your GoPro photo editing the AI powered enhancemen

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that into our scene when we're shooting time lapses I think it's super important to shoot in 5.3 K now the reason for this is because whenever you're getting some nice time lapse some nice Motion in your image especially when the image is still you want to be able to add that Ken Burns crop to like move the image in if you do that in like 2.7 K or 1080 you don't have as many pixels in the frame so that's why we offer 5.3k because we can really play around with with the pixels in that image so s

electing the highest resolution there I'm also going to shoot in wide When selecting the format for a time lapse I choose video format because I don't want to you know have to process this in post the interval I'm gonna go for five seconds that's because you know the sun isn't moving super quickly if you select two seconds I think that can often look a little bit jittery so I tend to go for the five seconds but if something's moving quick and you don't have a lot of time then go for two seconds

once we've got that all stoked we're all dialed in there let's get this time lapse rolling that song's literally about to pop so I'm going to find a nice spot probably somewhere where the composition is good I can see that lighthouse it's really able to get a clean shot on the lighthouse in the middle of the frame there it is let's go all right we're rolling sick all right I'm having a little David Attenborough moment here so now we're entering to the final section of the sequence and we're intr

oducing a shot that's really important that's where our two protagonists meet and it's sort of like the climax of the very short story that we've crafted and so to do that we've decided to go with a locked off shot and the reason is we already have a lot of movement in that edit and at this point you want your viewer to be focusing on the scene and what's actually happening and motion can be quite distracting so we're choosing a locked off shot tripod shot we don't have a drive Buzz so we're lit

erally sticking the Grande in the sand you know DIY that's part of filmmaking when it comes to setting we're gonna choose super view because we're gonna have two characters in the frame and I want to have it as wide as possible so I have a breath of error as well because I can't review the shot because we're both going to be in it now it wouldn't be a GoPro shoot without incorporating some fall of peyote point of view now the setup that we always use is this El Grande selfie stick with the bite

Mount because it's just the perfect setup for versatility now with this shot we're going to use hyperview again the most immersive field of view 148 degrees showing everyone what's going on and it's this final connecting moment it's that it's the point where you're in this cinematic experience but we're showcasing the characters the protagonist's point of view by mount on hyperview in get those hands in the shot we want to feel that it's you we want to feel that person thank you guys so much for

checking out today's video and joining us for this GoPro cinematic Sunrise experience we hope you learn something and make sure you check out our workshops if you want to learn some more we're taking you guys on the road to Morocco in September and there's just a few spots left so yep linked in there top Link in the description to check out Skyland living on Neo and we'll see you guys in the next video peace [Music]