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    GoPro Setting Breakdown for Bodysurfers

    The GoPro camera has taken the world by storm by making an awesome, lightweight, user friendly, and durable sports camera. However, if you are anything like me and just want to get in the water as soon as possible. So to get the most out of your GoPro there are a few things you really need to know to make the most out of any session.

    What's great your GoPro

    The good thing is your GoPro is very user-friendly in the sense that it's mostly automatic as far as lighting adjustments, focus adjustments. Once you have your base settings established, you can generally leave it be. Today we will explain how you can get the certain looks that we get from the slow motion or the really wide angle shots. And the way you need to manipulate the camera in different ways to get these looks. Below is a breakdown of the video to your left.

    The 3 go pro settings to know well

    The following three settings will completely shape the look of your shots

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Frames Per Second on GoPro

    Frames per second is basically saying this is how many photos are being stitched together per second to create the video. The more frames per second, the smoother your slow motion will be. If we have a video that is shooting in 24 frames per second and we try to slow that down, it's stretching those frames out. If we shoot in 120 frames per second in comparison, it has about 5, 6 times the amount of frames and it makes for a really really smooth slow motion shots.

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Field of Vision on GoPro

    Field of vision is basically what we're seeing when the camera is pointed at a subject. Imagine your eye could adjust how wide or narrow you could see, that's what this setting is going to be adjusting. The wider the field of vision the more peripheral the shot and the more of the subject will be included in the image.

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Resolution on GoPro

    Resolution is the quality of the footage or image. When you change this resolution, different things can happen, but most importantly, the lower the resolution, the lower the quality. The higher resolution, the higher the quality.

    Whats the difference between the views

    Narrow medium wide super view go pro views

    Field of vision - Breakdown

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Narrow view

    This is a very zoomed in shot and narrow focus on subject. I would compare it to about that of a 35 millimeter lens on a Crop Sensor DSLR. It's very zoomed in and it can be beneficial if you're shooting something further away or if you just want to get rid of the GoPro fish eye look.

    Medium view

    Medium view is a sweet spot right in-between narrow and wide it is not zoomed in, but it is definitely not that GoPro wide angle that we're used to you may have, some use for it when you're doing different shots and it’s great to test and play around with.

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Wide view

    Wide View is the classic GoPro wide angle. It is the view they use in a lot of their commercials, this is the setting that they are almost always using. Wide is great for action sports as you will always have the subject in view, even with all the moving around of the camera.

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Super View

    This is one of the settings I use the most with the Slyde Handboards is super view, and the reason I use it a lot with the Slyde Handboards is I'm filming myself and the boards are very close to my body. It's very wide and very weird, but sometimes for selfie poles etc, I use it with my dummy mount in my mouth for point of view, it's really great to get that perspective of what you're seeing and experiencing.

    Know before you go.

    This saying doesn't just apply to the surf conditions. The best way to control the quality of your footage is to know in advance what you plan on shooting for that day. Ask yourself, am I going to want to create slow motion shots or, am I looking for a higher quality resolution on my shots? The answer to this will guide your setting. The options for the setting are endless and we advise playing around with the different option. But if you just want to plug and play we advice these to setting for the optimum for the two most common scenarios.For a more in-depth setting configuration Look further down at the chart with all the possible configurations

    Filming action Shots- Our favorite setting

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Action shot setting
    1. 1080p
    2. 120 FPS
    3. Ultra Wide

    These settings are an awesome sweet spot for your action shots. It has great FPS for slow motion editing, allows fantastic 1080p video resolution with a very wide field of view that will make sure you don't miss the subject and get hours of footage focused on nothing

    GoPro Setting Breakdown: How To Best Film Slyde Handboard Videos
    Motionless settings
    1. 4k
    2. 24 FPS
    3. Ultra Wide

    This is the ultimate resolution so high in fact a lot of old computers will not show in 4k. With any kind of shooting that is relatively action-less we suggest using the high resolution and lower frames per second as you wont be slowing down the footage but you can take advantage of the super high clarity resolution

    Guide to Gopro resolution, Frame rates and FOV

    Below is a Guide to the video resolutions and the correlating frame rate, field of view and screen resolution

    Video resolution Frames per second Field of view Screen resolution
    4k 30,25,24 Ultra wide 3840x2160
    4k Superview 24 Ultra wide 3840x2160
    30,25,24 60,50,48,30,25,24 Ultra Wide, Meium 2704x1520
    2.7k Super view 30,25 Ultra Wide 2704x1520
    2.7k 4:3 30,25 Ultra Wide 2704x2028
    1440p 80,60,50,48,30,25,24 Ultra Wide 1920x1440
    1080p 120,90,60,50,48,30,25,24 Ultra wide, Medium, narrow 1920x1080
    1080p Super view 80,60,50,48,30,25,24 Ultra Wide 1920x1080
    960p 120,60,50 Ultra Wide 1920x1080
    720p 240,120,60,50,30,25 Ultra Wide, Medium, Narrow 1280x720
    720p Super view 120,60,50 Ultra Wide, Medium, Narrow 1280x720
    WVGA 240 Ultra Wide 848x480
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