GoPro has a pretty good Auto setting for the White Balance, but this can get tricky for Mountain Bikers, as we often ride through high contrast areas. 8000k is the “coolest” temperature, getting warmer as you get close to 1500k. White Balance is measured in Kelvin on a temperature chart from 1500 to 8000 degrees Kelvin. Warming cooler tones and cooling warmer tones to provide the most natural video. To put it more simply, White Balance is the balance of color in a video, specifically the color White.Īll in an effort to match the Color Temperature based on the current lighting. This can be outdoor light (which is ‘cooler’ and blue), indoor light (which is usually ‘warmer’ and red) or fluorescent light (which tends to be more green).” I found that Camera Jabber has one of the best descriptions of White Balance when they say, “White balance is a camera control that adjusts the camera’s color sensitivity to match the prevailing color of light. One of the most important settings you have to adjust when you’re Mountain Biking, is the White Balance of your GoPro.Īnd pay close attention, because this one can be tricky. If you’ve only ever messed with a smartphone camera, this next one may be a completely new topic for you. Just make sure to compensate for the larger file size until you can downsub later on in the edit. In fact, if you plan on doing a few slo-mo’s or grabbing a snapshot from a video during your rides, you may be better off just filming in 60 fps.
And most of the time, that is when you are wanting to either slow down the video or grab a picture from one of the frames. High frames rates have the unfortunate symptom of slowing down footage, which can make it look like you’re riding a lot slower than you actually are.Īlthough 24 or 30 fps seems low, especially with a GoPro capable of 4K at 60fps, that 24 fps gives you that sense of speed that we are accustomed to with MTB videos.īut 60 fps can be really beneficial when you need it. Surprisingly, the answer is not always yes, especially when you’re filming a sport like Mountain Biking. So if you have a high resolution – making smoother images, and a high frame rate – providing a smoother viewing, won’t that make for the best video? The more pixels per image, the sharper that image will appear. Resolution refers to the number of Pixels that make up an image. If you zoom in far enough on most videos, you are actually able to see the tiny pixels that make up the video you’re watching. Upping the Frames-per-second towards 60 fps, which the latest Gopro’s are certainly capable of, the video then starts to get smoother.īreaking it down a little further, each image in a video is made up of tiny colored squares called “Pixels”. Which works fine, as it provides a fairly “Cinematic” look to the footage. As a standard, most video we see today is shot at around 24 to 30 frames per second, or fps. The Frame Rate refers to the number of images played within a certain interval, in this case, how many Frames are displayed in the matter of 1 second. The images are played in intervals at a smooth speed, making them appear like one fluid viewing – Viola, video!
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When you think you’re watching a movie or YouTube video, you’re actually watching a series of images. To better explain, I will give you a simple understanding of how Video works. This is what people are referring to when they mention 4K or 24 FPS(frames-per-second), etc.
These terms should be relatively familiar to you. One of the first choices you must make when you start filming with your GoPro, is the Resolution and Frame Rate.