Tankman

Red bikes are faster yes! But I had to "let" her beat me on some strategic sections for the video! When we went up a really long steep climb, she left me for dead and I was going full gas, must be the 60kg weight difference between us Using Adobe Premiere Pro

Ok... my apologies guys, I was wrong. I got defensive and I can now see from the perspective of a brand like Cannondale, they would not be promoting the us of alcohol in their videos. Before you judge too harshly, my side... I had no budget for this video and no one asked me to make it. It was a very spur of the moment thing, we were already on the way to the farm for the weekend when I got news that we can take the bikes along. We had to stop back home to pack helmets and whatever other cycling gear I could dig out quickly. My partner is not a cyclist at all and I could not get any shots of her bombing down anything, which left me to try and film myself doing some faster stuff. Not easy filming yourself on a bike... with a drone that has no tracking capabilities or a "co-pilot" that has never flown a drone. (She enjoyed the e-bike tremendously and this might be a fantastic way to get her into cycling... and get me back into cycling ) The aim wasnt to promote a lifestyle, just thought I would get some cool shots whilst having a jol. Unfortunately the footage and terrain is what I have and where we were, cant change that but hopefully the next one will be better... How is this then? No click-bait this time!

If you remember correctly, I asked for the feedback. Still you.

My partner is not a cyclist at all, last time she was on a bike was in high school, the bike shop was kind enough to give her a cycling top. I was wearing a black Cannondale T-Shirt... Not sure why anyone would hung up by what people wear, there is no dress code for owning a bike. Brace yourself, I was on the e-bike in beach road with my plakkies and boardshorts on sunday afternoon...

Seriously? Get a life man. We had the drinks after the ride, but I did not see that as an ending shot for the video and used it elsewhere. The video is sponsored by myself, made by myself on my own time and my own expenses. The video is not "supposed to do sell a lifestyle", we had fun with the bikes and captured some footage. We were on the farm in the Karoo, the terrain is what it is.

Ok, so you come does it! I am always open to feedback, but "it not very good" doesnt tell me anything at all. Yea, that is called click-bait!

If I had a budget from Cannondale or the likes to produce a video, you might have seen some mixed and different terrain. Chucked the e-bikes on the bakkie and headed for the farm. It is what it is. If you want a workout on an e-bike, you can still get one. I was totally amazed how easy it was to go off the gravel road, into the velt and to get ontop of the koppies without much effort.

I am all ears!

A big HELL YES from me! They are insane, full of power and the ones I tested, built for any terrain you can throw at it! What is even better? I havent been on a bike in over 5 years and had a moerse jol without breaking a sweat! If you want to race with the racing snakes, use your "normal" bike. If you want to have a jol, pop to the shops quickly, do your favorite singletrack 3 or 4 times over.... jump on an E-bike!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDwTmEXFFII

Or since the 7 even, cant remember, whichever one first came out with RAW... that's been my way.

Download Adobe DNG Converter Convert GoPro Raw files to DNG, Import to LightRoom .... BOOM! Been doing it since the 8.

Yup, but these dates are wrong, not happening today as far as I am aware. There is some type of online virtual thing going on I think

Isn't Switchback happening in 2021?

Captured these while making the video above with the DJI Mavic Mini

Since there seems to be a lot of animals in here of late... This is the closest I have ever gotten to a whale!

A bit of family fun in Plett...

Anyone seen my water bottle, think I lost it on Chappies... around 2011? See-through with a black cap

Strange indeed, having an action cam without a replaceable lens. On my 3 I replaced the lens twice. The 7 is still holding stong. One thing I have seen the guys do with the 8, is to switch off the auto mic selecting function (not sure of the correct terms right now, its Friday afternoo) and selecting only the rear facing mic to eliminate as much wind noise as possible. On the motorbike, you are face with plenty of wind noise unfortunately.

If you have the 8, why not just get the media mod from GoPro? Then you dint need that ugly black box. Around $80 and should be much easier to get from Orms, Omnico, Outdoorphoto or Extreme Accessories. It has an additional external mic with a jack to add you own mic and 2 hot shoe mounting slots. Not sure about the lens protection as I have the 7,so not stressed about that. The only time sound is important to me, is when I am doing a quick interview and someone is talking. 99% of the time we are stationary during these. The rest of the sounds you can download from the net, from birds chirping to spokes spinning to tjops sizzling. I have a Rode Mini Video mic with the correct cable that allows me to record directly to my phone... but that has to be mounted somewhere again and I have a rig from a tripod head that I use but too much hassle. I also have a lav mic that can record directly to my phone, it has a very long cable which is good. They on Takealot for around R300, Boya Lav Mic. Prefer using this one! In extreme wind conditions, the R300 lav mic beats the R1000 video mic even with deadcat, hands down.

I gave up on that!That has to be the dumbest design to connect a microphone to an action cam. Once you connect that black box, that is almost bigger than the GoPro itself, where do you put it and where do you mount your mic? You dont want it dangling freely from your GoPro and risk it being pulled out!! Or even worse, it starts swinging around causing more of a ruckus than the built in mic's! You need to get an additional case, specific to your GoPro, to mount all these extras. And you wont be able to use that case between the 7 to the 8, for instance. The media pod on the Hero8 seems a better option. My final decision was to record sound separately on an external device and then just sync the tracks in post (all equipment I already have, so it works for me)

Shot, thanks man! With income standing still, that might be a while At least this has given me time to practice getting more cinematic type shots! And some crazy ideas for the Air2!

That's from a free royalty free site, they have 2 decent songs on there, I used one! I was actually looking for sound effects and came across the site: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/

Its a hit and miss... sometimes the wind is howling and I think naah not even going to try but then I dont know if the bigger boys will give me that much more confidence to try in those instances anyway. I have flown at the Point here in Mosselbay quite a bit in windy conditions, there can be a crazy on-shore wind at times or just the breeze blowing over the peaks there can be hectic. When the wind is like that, I try not to take shots where the drone has to hover for 10seconds to try and keep still, that just doesnt work, when you keep flying, the shots still come out decent without to many bumpy bits. Yea a couple of guys lost their Mini's in the beginning BUT this drone was also aimed at beginners and guess what beginners want to do, yup, how far and how high can it go. If you did not learn from their mistakes, fly out against the wind - fly back with the wind, then you are just a dumbass and you were most likely to loose it anyway! I have never had issues like that but I have never tried to see if it could actual go 3km far either! I do get the occasional "Strong Wind Warning" on the display but lowering altitude sorts that you quickly since you dont realize the difference in wind speed on the ground vs up in the sky. Yes, well mostly sunrise of late but I have also sneaked in a couple of night flights to test the footage. My conclusion: fly during the day!

That is a tough one! From a pure video/photography point of view the 2 Pro has the better camera. Bigger sensor. Better ISO performance 10bit video recording. Variable aperture, variable focus But if all that doenst mean a lot, from a ease of use point of view the Air 2 Fixed focus, fixed aperture 60fps 4k Video vs 30fps of the 2 Pro Smaller in size Longer flight time To help you decide, I made a video... :lol: (It actually has nothing to do with either but I made it anyway!)

Anytime man, google can make it even more confusing, let me try! When working with different frame rates, you have to choose the frame rate for your scene and your final product. What frame rate will you ultimately be exporting in? When you upload a video to youtube, it can not have a 24 and 30 and 60fps timeline. Your video can have different clips shot at different frame rates, but they will all be converted to your chosen timeline frame rate. Lets say you shot your footage in 24fps, you pull your first clip into your timeline in your editing software, your timeline will now be 24fps. If you shot footage on your GoPro at 30fps for instance and you add that clip into your timeline, it will now also be 24fps. In effect dropping 6 of the 30 frames so that you have 24fps. If you shot in 60fps and pull that into a 24fps timeline, every 2nd or so frame is being dropped to give conform to 24fps. If you slow 60fps down to 40% that will also give you 24fps. If you slow down 120fps to 80% that will give you 24fps You want to get all your footage down to the same frame rate. That's why 30fps footage on a 24fps timeline does not work so lekka, every 4th frame is dropped and that could cause your footage to be jerky. In terms of frame rates its self: 24fps is what we are used to seeing, that is what they use in the movies. It gives a slight motion blur. If someone sits in front of the camera and waves a hand, you will pick up a slight blur in the hand. Not a lot but it is there, this is what your eyes are used to seeing. Wave your hand and look at the motion blur, you do not see all of your fingers the whole time whilst waving. 30fps will not have the same motion blur, it will be a lot smoother because there are now more fps. If you look at sports like rugby or cricket, that is shot at 60fps or even 120fps (some of the slo-mo cameras do 240fps). If cricket was shot at 24fps and a ball that was hit to the boundary, it would just be a blurry blob of a line, it moves too fast for 24fps. The image on your screen looks different compared to that of a movie when looking at sports, it is much crisper and smooth thanks to the high frame rate. BUT frame rates in live broadcast works a bit different with the 60hertz refresh rate thrown into the mix than exporting a video to youtube. (my knowledge in broadcasting is too limited to explain) Another thing to keep in mind, when there is audio with your footage, someone talking during an interview, then you definitely do not want to shoot at a different frame rate than what your main exporting frame rate is going to be. If you shot the interview in 60fps and bring that into a 24fps timeline, with every 2nd frame then being dropped, your audio will not match up to the lip movement and it will just look weird. Anyway, that's my understanding, dont take it as rule! Here is an old video but it covers the basics: