GoPro 3 Black Settings

[Neil JohnsonMember]

Anyone able to share/their secret settings recipe for the black GoPro 3?

I’m just letting my helmet mount adhesive cure (middle of the forehead of my stack hat, with it sticking up through a cutout in my peak) and I’d like to take it for a whirl.

I tried this setup I found on the web:

Pro tune on
Video- 1080/50fps
Wide angle
PAL format
Auto white balance on

How’s that sound?

I already have the Sony Vegas editing program which is good for the basic stuff I do, and am really looking forward to fooling around with this thing (trail riding/beach/strapping it to the dog/etc).

Any guns on these things out there?

Cheers,

[scott bockingMember]

Settings sound good mate but protune requires a very fast card. You need a 45mb/s card to keep up with the buffer. It also uses a very flat colour profile so you will need to play with that in the editor or it will look washed out. If you do adjust it though you can get much more detail than the standard compressed footage. If however, you don’t want to have to mess with balance, contrast and saturation in post production then turn protune off.

STM

[Neil JohnsonMember]

singletrackmind wrote:

Settings sound good mate but protune requires a very fast card. You need a 45mb/s card to keep up with the buffer. It also uses a very flat colour profile so you will need to play with that in the editor or it will look washed out. If you do adjust it though you can get much more detail than the standard compressed footage. If however, you don’t want to have to mess with balance, contrast and saturation in post production then turn protune off.

STM

Bugger…I just spent a hundred bucks on the card they told me to get (64 Gig/Class 10), but it also says “up to 30 MB/second, 200x”

Have I been told the wrong thing?

I turned protune off and it goes from 50fps to 48fps by itself, does that make any difference?

I’m filming indoors so turned it from wide to medium as well as it made the walls round :dry:

[GregMember]

I have a black and pro tune isn’t worth the drama and the cost of cards plus your computer will struggle with it

Everything else is how I run mine most of the time

TB

[scott bockingMember]

MLC wrote:

singletrackmind wrote:

Settings sound good mate but protune requires a very fast card. You need a 45mb/s card to keep up with the buffer. It also uses a very flat colour profile so you will need to play with that in the editor or it will look washed out. If you do adjust it though you can get much more detail than the standard compressed footage. If however, you don’t want to have to mess with balance, contrast and saturation in post production then turn protune off.

STM

Bugger…I just spent a hundred bucks on the card they told me to get (64 Gig/Class 10), but it also says “up to 30 MB/second, 200x”

Have I been told the wrong thing?

I turned protune off and it goes from 50fps to 48fps by itself, does that make any difference?

I’m filming indoors so turned it from wide to medium as well as it made the walls round :dry:

Turn protune off and you only need a 20mb/s card so you will be fine. 64 Gig card is huge so you stand very little chance of running out of card space. I use a mix of medium and wide depending on the shot and location. Narrow is not much use.

STM

[Neil JohnsonMember]

singletrackmind wrote:

MLC wrote:

singletrackmind wrote:

Settings sound good mate but protune requires a very fast card. You need a 45mb/s card to keep up with the buffer. It also uses a very flat colour profile so you will need to play with that in the editor or it will look washed out. If you do adjust it though you can get much more detail than the standard compressed footage. If however, you don’t want to have to mess with balance, contrast and saturation in post production then turn protune off.

STM

Bugger…I just spent a hundred bucks on the card they told me to get (64 Gig/Class 10), but it also says “up to 30 MB/second, 200x”

Have I been told the wrong thing?

I turned protune off and it goes from 50fps to 48fps by itself, does that make any difference?

I’m filming indoors so turned it from wide to medium as well as it made the walls round :dry:

Turn protune off and you only need a 20mb/s card so you will be fine. 64 Gig card is huge so you stand very little chance of running out of card space. I use a mix of medium and wide depending on the shot and location. Narrow is not much use.

STM

singletrackmind

Thanks for that, I turned the protune off.

As it goes the disk the wankers sold me is the one they’ve had HEAPS of trouble with in the black gopro.

It’s even mentioned on the gopro site that it’s only recommended for the silver and white models.

I’ll just head back down tomorrow and return it, they should’ve known that much about their product.

Yes, I could probably just use a 32gig as well.

I usually do my homework a lot better than that, just got carried away a bit :S

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

I just bought the black before coming back over to Batam but only had a 2Gb card which lasted about 8 minutes. I bought a 32Gb here as well as an 8Gb for about $35 bucks. I don’t know what speed they are but the first time I used it with the new cards the replay on the computer was too rough. Every now and then it would play normally for a couple of seconds then it would go back to being jerky.

I have got it set on the same as you now MLC and it seems better for the 25 seconds I tried it.

The next issue I will have is being able to upload video, the internet service is pretty slow over here.

[Neil JohnsonMember]

Jeffro wrote:

I just bought the black before coming back over to Batam but only had a 2Gb card which lasted about 8 minutes. I bought a 32Gb here as well as an 8Gb for about $35 bucks. I don’t know what speed they are but the first time I used it with the new cards the replay on the computer was too rough. Every now and then it would play normally for a couple of seconds then it would go back to being jerky.

I have got it set on the same as you now MLC and it seems better for the 25 seconds I tried it.

The next issue I will have is being able to upload video, the internet service is pretty slow over here.

I took the Sandisk ultra 64gig back to the shop, as the gopro site recommended it only for the white and silver models.

I couldn’t find the models they recommended for the black, but grabbed a 32gig Sandisk extreme (80mb/sec as opposed to the ultra’s 30mb/sec) which the guy at Dick Smiths told me was proven to work properly in the black Gopro. He said he had seen plenty of problems with cards in the gopro and these were tried and proven.

I’d really like to try the Lexar professional, but couldn’t find one.

[scott bockingMember]

Sandisk extreme cards are very very good.

STM

[GregMember]

singletrackmind wrote:

Sandisk extreme cards are very very good.

STM

I can vouch for them in a black they work well I have 3 of them

TB

[Neil JohnsonMember]

Trailboss wrote:

singletrackmind wrote:

Sandisk extreme cards are very very good.

STM

I can vouch for them in a black they work well I have 3 of them

TB

Cheers guys,

Bit of a mission this tech stuff for an old sausage fingers like me, bearing in mind that I saw the arrival of colour tv and mobile phones.

Even with this new card I started getting SD error :S

It seems it doesn’t like to be formatted by my laptop, works best by formatting using the camera itself.

Just sat on the bike and gave it a trial run on the above settings…awesome! Money well spent despite the complications.

I like the forehead mount/cut out peak on my helmet, looks to work well.

[scott bockingMember]

MLC wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

singletrackmind wrote:

Sandisk extreme cards are very very good.

STM

I can vouch for them in a black they work well I have 3 of them

TB

Cheers guys,

Bit of a mission this tech stuff for an old sausage fingers like me, bearing in mind that I saw the arrival of colour tv and mobile phones.

Even with this new card I started getting SD error :S

It seems it doesn’t like to be formatted by my laptop, works best by formatting using the camera itself.

Just sat on the bike and gave it a trial run on the above settings…awesome! Money well spent despite the complications.

I like the forehead mount/cut out peak on my helmet, looks to work well.

Glad you are getting it sorted out mate. It is a steep learning curve but you will get it all dialled in and get some great footage. Another tip is to only format the card in the device you will use it in. When you have transferred the files to your hard drive leave the files on the card and format in your GoPro. If you use it in another device then format it before you capture a file on it. That will keep it running smooth.

STM

[Nick JacksonMember]

singletrackmind wrote:

MLC wrote:

Trailboss wrote:

singletrackmind wrote:

Sandisk extreme cards are very very good.

STM

I can vouch for them in a black they work well I have 3 of them

TB

Cheers guys,

Bit of a mission this tech stuff for an old sausage fingers like me, bearing in mind that I saw the arrival of colour tv and mobile phones.

Even with this new card I started getting SD error :S

It seems it doesn’t like to be formatted by my laptop, works best by formatting using the camera itself.

Just sat on the bike and gave it a trial run on the above settings…awesome! Money well spent despite the complications.

I like the forehead mount/cut out peak on my helmet, looks to work well.

Glad you are getting it sorted out mate. It is a steep learning curve but you will get it all dialled in and get some great footage. Another tip is to only format the card in the device you will use it in. When you have transferred the files to your hard drive leave the files on the card and format in your GoPro. If you use it in another device then format it before you capture a file on it. That will keep it running smooth.

STM

Seriously STM its time to buy a Star Trek t shirt , thick rimmed glasses and carry a breifcase ( I would have said centre parted hair but I know that’s not possible )

Always good advice though mate

Nick

[PaulMember]

Thx for the advice, just pulled the trigger on one of these myself & have been curious about settings as well.

First test I went with…
1080 – 60fps
Protune on
Auto WB on
Wide angle

Footage colour was very flat as STM mentioned & not very sharp either, had the fisheye lens look as well.
I ran it through the GoPro software, ticked remove fisheye & used their preset which made the colours pop & sorted the fisheye out but it still didn’t look sharp enough, cranked sharpen all the way up & ran it again, looked heaps better.

Next time I’m gonna turn protune off, shoot at medium & see how it compares.

Paul

[Neil JohnsonMember]

WhoDaFuxDis wrote:

Thx for the advice, just pulled the trigger on one of these myself & have been curious about settings as well.

First test I went with…
1080 – 60fps
Protune on
Auto WB on
Wide angle

Footage colour was very flat as STM mentioned & not very sharp either, had the fisheye lens look as well.
I ran it through the GoPro software, ticked remove fisheye & used their preset which made the colours pop & sorted the fisheye out but it still didn’t look sharp enough, cranked sharpen all the way up & ran it again, looked heaps better.

Next time I’m gonna turn protune off, shoot at medium & see how it compares.

Paul

Mate,

I updated the software and went back to simple settings:

1080-48fps
Pro tune off
Medium angle

Went for a blat yesterday and must say I’m impressed.

Some handy tips are:

Format the card in the device and don’t use Sandisk Ultra (or any other under 45mb/sec Class 10).

That’s the noob advice I’ve got so far, and it seems to be taking some nice footage.

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