A Professional Guide on how to Color Grade GoPro Footage

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These are the best settings to use for those who are familiar with videography. I will share my secrets to the best settings, why you would use these settings, and how to color grade gopro footage in Davinci Resolve 17.
I'm shooting using the Gopro Hero 7 Black, but The process is the same in Gopro 7, 8, 9 and Gopro Hero 10. Any of the Gopros work with the same principle, but hypersmooth is a very nice upgrade that the older versions lack.
This how to guide focuses mostly on ski and mtb footage, but all the principles can be applied to any type of gopro footage.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - Preface
01:22 - Framerates
01:41 - Resolutions and FOV
02:21 - Stabilization
03:45 - Shutter Speed
05:29 - Color Profiles
06:43 - White Balance
07:27 - Sharpening
07:40 - Audio
09:00 - Editing Software
09:11 - Project & Timeline Settings
09:41 - Understanding the Color Tab
10:45 - Color Correction
14:34 - Creative Grading
17:02 - LUTs & Color Spaces
20:47 - Compression & Export Settings
This is just the tip of the iceberg, to show you what is possible to achieve, but I'm not going to go super in depth of what type of grading that is possible. Check out these recources for more insight.
Difference in framerates:
- 25p 1/100 Shutter speed: • Nye Stier i Drammen Bi...
- 30p 1/120 Shutter speed: • En guide til alle stie...
- 60p Auto shutter: • Deliverance KOM | One ...
Recources for color grading and color management:
- Darren Mostyn
- Cullen Kelly
- MixingLight
- Avery Peck
- Juan Melara
/ markusfinholt

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@MarkusFinholt Ай бұрын

I've spent the last year designing a LUT for gopro specific use. You can purchase it here: www.finholtproductions.com/store/p/finholt-mountain-biking-luts-davinci-wide-gamut-or-rec709

@jakewestin4176 2 жыл бұрын

This is so much more than just color grading. This is an approach and outline for making an entire production. Really great work man

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

I wondered if the title was a bit too vague considering the content in the video, but since 99% of getting a good image from gopros come from getting the look correct in camera, I thought it was fair to use that title. Thank you.

@davidbeas 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible information for free. You are awesome.

@rufusstandefer4267 2 жыл бұрын

My compliments, good choices in using the different tools to enhance the beauty of your scenes without destroying their natural balance. Well done.

@PuraVidaPhotography Жыл бұрын

This has been super helpful for me. Covered everything I was looking for and a few things I didn't know I should learn about! Thanks!

@YinzerMTB 9 ай бұрын

I am just getting into KZfaq and creating videos and really appreciate this guide! I have been struggling to get quality videos and struggling with KZfaq compressing my videos down. You answered almost everything on post production in one great video, Thanks!

@zackmartin7925 Ай бұрын

Thank you go much!!! Amazing detail.

@mateirusu2825 10 ай бұрын

GoPro Tutorial of the year! Amazing content!

@JapanJacques Жыл бұрын

Excellent information and great pacing, thanks a lot for making this video! Excited to take my Hero 9 out on some runs in Tokyo and work with the footage in Resolve afterwards!

@vyacheslav73 2 ай бұрын

4:40 - Ouch! Didn't expect this kind of content. Almost moved my hands towards the notebook to protect from the coming tree😀 I like how you explain the technical details and smoothly share your knowledge without being an arrogant goose like some other vloggers. Thanks!

@guchierrez 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, this video has been the most useful in regards to setting up my gopro and how to actually color grade flat footage.

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

@jaynojamiloapat4501 6 ай бұрын

I am so thankful to find out about this video. And I'm excited to use my GoPro hero 9 in Davinci resolve! hope to see more of this kind of content about Davinci resolve and GoPro using mac. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!

@Paco.raw_ 5 ай бұрын

Genial! nuevo suscriptor, te deseo lo mejor y decirte que eres un Crack! al compartir tu conocimiento sobre el Grading color.

@cervellimatteo Жыл бұрын

best video for push GoPro on the limit! thanks bro

@Colorado4x4 Жыл бұрын

Really great video. It was easy to understand and follow and very helpful!

@guitaro Ай бұрын

Great vid, learned a lot!

@mikedamisch 11 ай бұрын

Great video!

@fcvisuals 8 ай бұрын

great video man ! tanks for the tips

@mikereynoldsguitar502 Жыл бұрын

just got my gopro hero 5 black really impressed with the quality im here to take my footage to another level , mainly gonna use it for recording the rides on my MTB

@MsSpicynipples Жыл бұрын

Great video glad to see I can use the hue scope like a 'color mixer' wasn't sure how to do that in resolve

@comfortablylost6459 Жыл бұрын

Footage looks great man! Well done

@nadaan_parinda Жыл бұрын

Great Information .. thanks..

@raulrodriguezmtb 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video bro! As a complete noob, this helps me out a lot.

@KessuPutte 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel and love the videos with the edits! Great that you share and teach useful information and tips! :) Just ordered your LUT package and they look so great for Scandinavian forests and environments. Cheers from Finland! :)

@MarkusFinholt 10 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Is biking in Finland cool? I've been to Levi bike park, but crashed on the first run...

@KessuPutte 10 ай бұрын

@@MarkusFinholt I live in the southern parts so the environment is pretty flat-ish, but we do have quite nice and super technical trails here though. Pretty lucky to live near good trails. Biking in Norway is definitely on my bucket list!

@mrjamieholloway Жыл бұрын

Thanks bud, appreciate the videos. :)

@luisperez1007 Жыл бұрын

bro, thank you so much for this

@Cranetechofficial Жыл бұрын

thanks for tutorial it was amazing :)

@lorenzoloveland9206 Жыл бұрын

Wow!! I Absorbed So Much! .. I'm Subscribing.

@merkgonzalez 2 жыл бұрын

Dope intro mate!

@justkillen07 9 ай бұрын

bro i don't really sub to ppl JUST because I'm not on youtube like that but bro you killed it with this video and its a year old and still going strong! hope you got more because i just liked and subscribed

@nanitto_1k Жыл бұрын

Thank you my guy! I have liked and wrote this comment even before finishing the video.

@reactdev101 6 ай бұрын

thanks alot, that was very hrlpful. I am Using gopro with fpv drone.

@Thomas_Andreas_Bell 2 жыл бұрын

Takk for bra info, skal begynne å legge ut litt mer sånt jeg og👍😃

@hzjp8668 2 жыл бұрын

nice job bro

@Jean-Mich Жыл бұрын

I just came upon that video, Thank you so much for all that. I struggle a getting quality image with manual shutter speed and ND filter though shoot 4k 16:9 30fps with 120 shutter and nd32 for full sunny day. I have blurriness on movement ( Fly Fishing POV)

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. A ND 32 will make the footage really dark on normal sunny days. You say you have blurriness on movement, but do you want to not have blur? If you don't want blur, you don't need to use ND filters. A slower shutter makes it more blurry. If you still find it to be too bright with an ND 32, and you want blur, you can try downloading Gopro Labs, and use a custom shutter of somewhere between 1/120 and 1/240. I personally use 1/160 now on all my shots.

@Jean-Mich Жыл бұрын

@@MarkusFinholt yeah i was shooting at 30fps with shutter 1/60 has it is it's double, that was my bad

@shotbyarian Жыл бұрын

can you make one for premiere pro also?

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

Thanks! No, sorry. I don't have the time to make another guide, but the principles of this video should be indentical to what is happening in Resolve.

@pavledjuricic1520 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this explainatio. But I have few questions. I own GoPro Max, do you think Adobe Premiere can give me similar results as far as colour grading and correction goes. As you know with Max you first have to reframe 360 videos, but I don't think Resolve has that option(plugin). Should I just stick with Premiere and finish job ther, with colour correction and than adjustment layers and LUTs, or should I reframe and export each video separately and then edit them in Resolve with music and all that... Than you a lot and keep up the good work.

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

You can achieve the same results in Premiere, but the math in davinci resolve is done in a way that preserves information a lot better than Premiere pro. I would suggest rendering out the project in premiere without transitions and titles. Then you import the finished file into resolve, use the "cut match" tool to cut up the video. Then you proceed to grade it in resolve and export as a final video.

@pavledjuricic1520 2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkusFinholt Oh now I see, thank you a lot, I will try that method when I start editing project.

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

@@pavledjuricic1520 Alternatively, export an XML from premiere, and open the XML in resolve. If it works, it's way faster, but if the timeline is very complicated, it might not work.

@siddj08 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Markus, question about H.264 vs HEVC. On my Hero 8, 4K 4:3 is restricted to using HEVC compression. What is the best codec for KZfaq uploads? Does H.264 give us better video quality?

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

KZfaq converts all videos to either MPEG4 or VP9, depending on pixel count. Videos above 1440p are converted to VP9, which compresses the video less. So the codec you upload in should have virtually 0 to do with the quality. However, if you're recording in HEVC (which is just a different name for h.265), you need less bitrate to achieve the same results. So a video with 100Mbps video, encoded with h.265 will have more information than a video recorded with 100Mbps as h.264. Basically, upload as whatever codec you want, it's so heavily compressed that it basically doesn't matter anyway.

@J.E.. 8 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial! It seems like you have a total diffrent approach to ND Filters, everybody says framerate x2 = Shutterspeed but this destroys the stabilization of the Camera. Do you always use 1/120 shutter speed? Will it not be over exposed?

@MarkusFinholt 8 ай бұрын

Shutterspeed x2 framerate is an ancient trick that gives a very natural rendition at the lower framerates, and was needed to make 24 fps seem natural. This trick isn't as solid for very fast motion, where a faster shutter will make you see more of the action. The reason I always set the shutter to minimum 170 (with gopro labs) is that less than that always makes jitters witt digital stabilization. As long as you're using a strong enough ND filter, you can film with whatever shutter you want.

@Razertw 6 ай бұрын

What about stabilization in post like Reelsteady or GyroFlow? Are these affected by 180 shutter angle as well?@@MarkusFinholt

@MarkusFinholt 5 ай бұрын

@@Razertw Yes, since they are digital and not optical stabilization.

@NWGR 2 жыл бұрын

Decent video; some good tips in here. Ont thing I do though, I record 2.7k60 4:3 for head mounted videos. I like 4:3 because I crop to 16:9 in post to get the shot I want and don't have to be so conscious about framing perfectly.

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

4:3 is obviously more true to life than superview, since superview essentially is a fake video format. However you're sacrificing so much FOV if you're cropping from 4:3 to 16:9 in post that I would never use anything else than superview for POV shots.

@cervellimatteo Жыл бұрын

what tool do you use for lens correction in DaVinci? the only thing missing in DaVinci is GoPro reframe plugin

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

I don't do any lens corrections on Gopro footage.

@dziadzielony692 Жыл бұрын

Is GP Flat ptofile a Rec709 color space or wider?

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

Gopro flat is still the same color space as Rec709 as far as I know. The "flat" setting is only about the log base, which is more logarithmic than rec709. However, there are some experimental features on gopro labs that can use a wide gamut.

@stormyboy129 Жыл бұрын

A question, why should you use nd filters? Can't you just bump up the shutter speed to darken the image?

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

Absolutely that is the most basic way to do things. But fast shutter speeds are known for making videos seem very digital. A slower shutter speed makes it less choppy, and more real. A shutter of 1/50 is normal for cinema, but for gopro videos that's a bit slow, when there is so much movement, and especially when you want to have digital stabilization. But if you don't mind choppy frames, or are shooting on a higher framerate, ND filters are not nessecary.

@markusthorsnes141 2 жыл бұрын

Hei, driver med både snowboard og mtb men har litt stramt budsjett. Tror du dette funker like bra på silver versjonen av hero 7?

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

for et startkamera er gopro 7 silver et fantastisk kamera. du kan absolutt få samme kvalitet som jeg fikk i denne videoen hvis du veit hva du driver med.

@markusthorsnes141 2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkusFinholt Noen tips? Ser at silver versjonen er lit mer begrenset på video innstillinger.

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

@@markusthorsnes141 Bare bruk akkurat de samme tipsa som jeg prata om i denne videoen så får du gode resultater

@markusthorsnes141 2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkusFinholt Okay, takk for svar😄

@Attila1994rocker 2 жыл бұрын

Hei. Hvilken redigerings programm bruker du til GoPro?

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

Davinci Resolve 17

@Chinhnguyen0497 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a simple tutorial? this looks so professional

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

This is already a very simplified tutorial that leaves out quite a bit of information. If you want a simpler tutorial, just use the gopro how it works straight out of the box. It takes a lot of knowledge to manipulate the image to be better than what Gopros tone mapping is doing. Most people will not be able to create better contrast ratios than the natural tone mapping that's happening in the Gopro Natural / Color modes.

@MichaelHoughton_ Жыл бұрын

Hey bro. I would love to do a colab with you! I shoot FPV footage and am color blind and would be sick to share your tips on my channel and maybe for you to edit a clip of moine to teach how to edit FPV footage? Thoughts welcome! Or ill give you the clip and you edit it (along with some of my other editing mate on YT) to see If people and I can learn anything.

@NordsternOutdoor Жыл бұрын

why use full manual? it clearly breaks down at places like 3:36 ... most clips look either overexposed or underexposed or both :| Also I think you need to use "native" white balance in order to get an actually flat picture. I noticed that after using 5500k for a while..

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

Higher ISOs and a changing shutter speed is the number one way to ruin your footage. Leaving those on manual and setting the exposure with an ND filter is perfectly fine if you have controlled light. The example you listed at 3:36 is actually how I percieved it in real life, 5 seconds of super dark forest. If you have a lot of changing bright and dark scenes, then obviously leaving everything on manual won't work. Then you could set the max ISO to a bit higher than the min ISO. Gopro is better at underexposing than overexposing, so it's usually better to leave some headroom and brighten it in post. Native white balance has nothing to do with how flat the picture is. Native is just for extremely special occations where you would need to record sensor data AFAIK. I can't find any official information about how to correct native WB from gopro, so you would need a color chart to fix the colors correctly. Using 5500k is the right thing to do if you're shooting outside in daylight. They even do this in big productions with high end cameras. So there is even less reason to not do it with gopros.

@PTMG 23 күн бұрын

why not just plug the lav mic into the gopro?

@MarkusFinholt 23 күн бұрын

It doesn't take 3.5mm input

@JimRunarHansen 2 жыл бұрын

Kommer ikke sykt langt med typ null innstillinger på Hero Session 😅

@MarkusFinholt 2 жыл бұрын

hero session 5 har akkurat det man trenger, men vet ikke med den vanlige hero session

@AVONEUS 11 ай бұрын

speaking another language lol hard to relate but learned a lot tho

@lavithhcm 2 жыл бұрын

subscribe for same hobbies. Love it

@takkischitt Жыл бұрын

Really great video. Thank you. Where do you get your LUTs from for Davinci Resolve? Can you get many for free? I only seem to be able to find paid for ones, and most of them look like they're the typical bullshit 'content creator' money making schemes.

@MarkusFinholt Жыл бұрын

I got them from a filmmaker I worked with once in a school course. They are pretty good, but I don't own any of them. So I can't share them unfortunately. All LUTs can be created from within resolve, but obviously they require a lot of hours of knowledge and skill to replicate. If you can't find any good LUTs for free, there is no shame in buying some good LUT packs for lets say 20 bucks. The time you save in learning about 'look development' aka creating LUTs, can be spent better on working for an hour on a real job to pay for the LUTs instead. But yeah, some are not very good purchases. You want to avoid any 'log to rec709' LUTs, and make sure the LUTs are designed for REC709.