10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your GoProfessional

If you’re in search of a compact filming machine you could take nearly wherever, GoProfessional motion cameras are nonetheless a go-to—they’re so much simpler to mount to a helmet or a surfboard than a smartphone, in spite of everything. Whether you’re simply getting began along with your GoProfessional otherwise you’ve used it extensively, the following tips ought to provide help to uncover extra of the digicam’s capabilities.

These will work on the most recent GoProfessional (the Hero9 Black on the time of writing), however many additionally apply to fairly a couple of of the older fashions as nicely. If you’re uncertain, verify on-line or within the documentation that got here along with your machine.

1. Change the Field of View

GoProfessionals are identified for his or her wide-angle photographs, however you don’t at all times want a very broad discipline of view (FOV). Tap the W within the backside right-hand nook of the LCD show to make adjustments, and to suit roughly into the body when you begin the precise filming.

The fundamentals of FOV aren’t tough to understand, with a narrower setting providing you with a extra targeted take a look at the motion, nearly like zooming in (which can also be obtainable). If you wish to do away with the fish-eye impact fully, select one of many linear or slim choices.

2. Find a Lost Camera

If your GoProfessional digicam has disappeared someplace in your neighborhood in the previous few minutes, there’s a method of monitoring it down. From the GoProfessional/Quik app in your smartphone, faucet the wrench icon, then allow the Locate Camera toggle swap.

Your GoProfessional will begin beeping, if it’s close by and nonetheless linked, which ought to provide you with a warning to its whereabouts. Obviously that is relatively restricted by way of vary and time, nevertheless it’s a helpful trick to know should you’ve put your digicam down someplace and might’t discover it.

3. Improve Battery Life

As with every other gadget, you’ll wish to get as a lot battery life out of your GoProfessional as potential, and the battery degree on the machine can drain fairly shortly with two LCD screens and a digicam to energy, even should you’re not truly doing any recording.

From Preferences, you possibly can dial down the display brightness and timeout delay (below Displays), and switch off GPS (below Regional). Tap Connections to disable the hyperlink to your telephone and different units, which ought to provide help to eke out much more battery life.

4. Access the Protune Settings

If you wish to transcend the default settings that you simply get along with your GoProfessional out of the field, you then’ll wish to make use of the assorted Protune settings. They offer you extra guide management in relation to white stability, coloration profiles, ISO restrict, sharpness and publicity.

On the most recent cameras, faucet the preset that’s at present activated on the rear LCD display, then scroll down and faucet the + icon so as to add a brand new one. Among the usual settings for the preset, you’ll see a Protune part that features the superior options we’ve talked about.

5. Create Your Own Presets

If there are particular settings that you simply depend on, from the sector of view to the white stability, then save them as a preset. That method, you possibly can restore a earlier configuration in a few faucets.

To arrange your individual preset configuration, faucet no matter one is lively on the LCD display on the rear, then faucet the + icon to construct a brand new one. Resolution, body price, and period limits are all obtainable, and once you’re achieved you’ll have to present your preset a reputation.

6. Control Your GoProfessional With Your Voice

We’re all used to speaking to good audio system and smartphones, and you may command your GoProfessional motion digicam along with your voice, too. To allow the function, swipe down on the show in the back of your digicam, then faucet the voice command icon if it’s not already turned on.

There’s a full listing of instructions you should utilize here (and below Voice Control and Commands in Preferences in your precise digicam), however you possibly can difficulty instructions similar to, “GoPro start recording,” and, “GoPro photo mode,” to set off actions.

7. Film for Social Media

The newest GoProfessional digicam fashions allow you to movie in both vertical or portrait mode, appropriate for all of the social media channels you’re pushing out content material too. The common GoProfessional extras, together with the wide-angle discipline of view, can nonetheless be utilized.

Turn your digicam on its aspect to modify. If you begin filming vertically, the digicam sticks with it till you cease. To lock your self in vertical mode when framing photographs earlier than capturing, swipe down on the display and faucet the orientation lock icon (a sq. with arrows).

8. Mark Highlights As You Go

When you’re recording, you possibly can press the mode button on the aspect of your GoProfessional to mark a selected spotlight. That means it’s going to be simpler to seek out afterward once you’re reviewing the footage in your smartphone or by the digicam’s built-in browser.

If you might have voice management enabled (see above), you may also say, “GoPro highlight” to get the identical consequence, and highlights might be added afterward by the GoProfessional/Quik app in your telephone, too. If you’re utilizing the auto edit operate, then highlights will get marked.

9. Automatically Upload to the Cloud

Here’s a very good time-saver: Your GoProfessional can begin transferring footage of your day’s adventures to the cloud as quickly as you place it on cost in attain of your house wifi—so long as you’re paying out $5 a month or $50 a 12 months for a GoPro Plus subscription, that’s.

You must do the preliminary setup by the GoProfessional/Quik app in your telephone, so your digicam is aware of which wifi community to make use of, however after that all of it occurs within the background. The charger should be no less than a 5V 1A one, and your unique information will keep in place.

10. Add Even More Features

You can enroll within the GoPro Labs program in case your digicam is on the listing of suitable fashions (which incorporates the Hero9 Black and the Hero8 Black). It works in an identical option to every other beta program, providing you with early entry to experimental software program options.

Some of the cool preview options obtainable on the time of writing embrace beginning recording when movement is detected, having the choice of a single-button seize mode, and QR code management. You’ll must follow the instructions to put in the Labs replace.