Shooting HD Video with a GoPro HERO5 Camera
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If you want to shoot HD video in traditional shooting situations, there are literally thousands of video cameras to choose from. In fact, your smartphone or tablet probably has a decent quality HD video camera built in.
However, if you want to capture stunning, clear, and extremely high-quality video in and around water, snow, or other harsh conditions; capture first-person shots by mounting the camera onto yourself or your equipment; or mount the camera in a tight space and at a specific angle to capture your subject perfectly, these are the situations where your GoPro camera is designed to truly excel.
Especially when shooting with the HERO5 Black or HERO5 Session, your camera is chock full of video-related features and functions, and it gives you plenty of options for shooting resolution, frames per second (FPS), and field of view (FOV) combinations.
When you use a mount that’s best suited for your shooting situation, you quickly discover that what’s possible using your GoPro camera is limited only by your imagination and not by the technology built into the camera or its design.
The Skill and Art of Videography
As stated in other chapters of this book, digital photography and videography are both skills and art forms. This chapter focuses on helping you understand how to use each camera’s shooting modes that relate to shooting video, as well as the options related to them. In other words, the focus is on the skill aspect of videography using your GoPro camera.
Because shooting video typically also requires you to record audio, and lighting is an essential element of good quality video, the focus of Chapter 12, “Capturing Sound and Using Artificial Light,” is on these two important aspects of videography.
Chapter 13, “Strategies for Shooting Awesome HD Video,” then shows you how to put this knowledge to work, and incorporate your own creativity, as well as proven video-shooting strategies, to help you consistently shoot the highest-quality and most visually interesting videos possible using the GoPro camera and related equipment that’s at your disposal. In other words, the next chapter is all about the art of shooting video.
After you capture your raw video footage, you need to edit it using the free GoPro QUIK Desktop software for the PC or Mac (see Chapter 14), or you can use any third-party video-editing software on your computer or mobile device.
When you’re planning your video shots and ultimately shooting video, keep in mind that you’ll most likely be editing the raw footage before you show it off to other people, so your ultimate goal should be to quickly set the scene and tell some type of story and/or illicit some type of emotion from your viewers. Especially if you’ll be sharing your videos online, it’s a good idea to keep them short, meaning you need to edit together your best footage in a way that makes sense and is entertaining to the people watching.
