Video stills from a shoot this afternoon

[TitleMine]

These are all stills from raw protune footage, so they're a little washed out because they haven't undergone post-production correction yet. The final video should be done in about a week or two.

[C.J]

The shot along the wall is pretty intense. Nice pics! And no snow on the ground!

[TitleMine]

Bonus: Top camera after 5.3 miles-

[Schen]

Interesting, maybe I'll give Protune a shot over the weekend. Do you notice a difference in overall quality?

--RS

[TitleMine]

So, ProTune does generally have richer colors than some of the more exotic shooting sizes once it's corrected, but its main benefit is allowing for greater ease of stitching together shots from different cameras because of the fine-tuning that's possible. In my case, my EOS is the primary workhorse, I just use GoPros in situations where I'd be afraid to risk the glass to debris (like that wall shot) or where the size of the EOS is undesirable (for arial shots where the quadrotor isn't powerful enough to boost the weight of the DSLR) or to give me a second angle on a shot I'm already using the DLSR for. Because my 70D is pretty much capped at 1080P/30 for video, I can zoom in on that framerate, size, and aspect ratio in protune, and use after effects tools to try and mimic some of the greater depth of field delivered by a more expensive camera.

If you're just shooting with the 3+ Black only, I'd rock 2.7K/30/W and not look back. It's amazing that such a cheap, small camera can deliver that kind of quality. Elitists are always busting people's balls in YouTube comments about the quality of the mics, but on the 3+ Black it actually isn't half bad. It's not up to the level of a dedicated shotgun, but it's in another universe from the Hero II, which was the first one of these I had.

[FLATOUT]

I use an external mic so that I can pick up my sound of choice . Cool shots.

[TitleMine]

I use an external mic so that I can pick up my sound of choice . Cool shots.

What are you using? I have a Z00M HN4 that I really like. You really need to stick it on the tail-light/license plate region for the best audio, I've found.

[FLATOUT]

What are you using? I have a Z00M HN4 that I really like. You really need to stick it on the tail-light/license plate region for the best audio, I've found.

It's been a while since I bought it ill have to check. I used to put it back there but I really like it under the hood now. You can get it completely out of the wind all together and get some valve train noise as well. If you watch Nineballs MSR video on youtube he is using the same one.

I might pick your brain about editing multiple angles into one video after my track day this weekend.

[DEADEYE]

Ha ha, I'll be taping my Rode Stereo video mic pro next to the exhaust on my next video. I hope the dead kitten works as well as they say! Nice angles btw are you using the LCD back pack to frame your shots?

[LifeIsGood]

...your exhaust tips need cleaning.

[rw99]

...subscribed, great info!

[TitleMine]

...your exhaust tips need cleaning.

After that drive, everything needed cleaning. It was a huge mistake not to shoot the tips first; I only have 4 cameras.

[TitleMine]

Ha ha, I'll be taping my Rode Stereo video mic pro next to the exhaust on my next video. I hope the dead kitten works as well as they say!

Buy (or if you're married/dating/a woman) "acquire" an ouchless hair tie (the kind without a mental thing on it, ask a salesperson at a drug store and they'll know exactly what you're looking for) and use it on the dead kitten. The built-in elastic in the deadcat/dead kitten is not designed to withstand the force of the wind generating by a car moving at speed. The "ouchless" tie prevents the tie from ripping out the hairs on the deadkitten once it's bound around the hair; one with a metal clasp will catch in the hairs and rip them out. Put the dead kitten on, then wrap it with the scrunch as many times as required for a tight fit. I've had mine up to 130MPH without losing it this way. Using the normal elastic in the deadcat, I've lost one doing a doughnut at less than 30MPH, and it was a real pain to clean out.

[DEADEYE]

Will do! Thanks for the advice

[FLATOUT]

With the wired external mic's you can get completely clean sound. Hell you can run it inside the car and tape it in the rear hatch just above the exhaust exit. Best thing to do is try a bunch of locations until you get the one you want. I'm going to try it under the hood tomorrow at a track event and see how it does.

[TitleMine]

I'm going to try it under the hood tomorrow at a track event and see how it does.

Induction noise in the car is really distinct and interesting. If you have a small mic (like a lav) you can tape it up with painter's tape or secure it with small zip ties and cut them off later, it produces interesting results.

For filming on the go, the best result I've found with my setup is to mount the mic on a Ram suction mount here, with the receivers pointed in the direction of the arrow:



(Sorry if this is somebody else's car, I just grabbed an image offline since I'm not at home)

It takes some tuning to ballence the audio, but with the Belangers, I found that running a decibel defeat of around -6 preserves the integrity of the audio during driving without any of it getting "whited out" by excess volume above 4,000 RPM when it really, really gets loud. I'd recommend a separate, more neutral setting (maybe -2) for startup though, as the defeat makes it sound considerably less impressive than it actually is. I made that mistake when I was checking out a Saleen S7 a few weeks ago. Exhaust was out of this world, but I needed a second take because I had a bad preset.

[DEADEYE]

I tried to post a pic but it doesn't work, oh well.