Go Pro Basics - HELP! (1 Viewer)

[2Young2BBald]

I need some help. I ordered a Go Pro Hero 3 (silver edition) earlier in the week to film a HUGE cross country meet this afternoon. The thing just arrived and I have no time to read the manual as we have a hour and a half + drive there and are leaving in about 15 minutes (and will have some time to read up on replies once we arrive). I will charge it in the car and am downloading the App for my iPhone now. I bought a 32MB card for it. First question is about how many minutes will this hold? Any other need to know info? I know the iPhone can be used as a monitor and I packed an external battery just in case. THANKS!!

And, I apologize if I missed a thread on this already, a quick search found nothing.

 

[Ned]

Hey GB.... It's super easy to use. A few random thoughts (I have the 1st gen and the 4th gen).

• The iphone app sucks. Waste of time.
• Are you wearing it or putting it on your son to wear during the race?
• The head mount is the best one, IMO. Second best is the chest mount.
• The wide angle mode limits how much you'll be able to see at a distance - these things are designed to be up close and personal. I'm not sure if the 3 has the narrow mode setting, but you can extend the view a bit by setting it to narrow (easily found in the settings).
• I'm going to assume you got a 32GB card; 32MB ain't gettin' you very far That should be plenty for recording the meet.

 

[2Young2BBald]

and ya, GB not MB. I ordered an attachment bundle but it did not arrive I wanted to us the head mount. I am using a shoe lace to have it around my neck for today and plan on just holding it. This meet is insane. Over 8000 college, high school and middle school runners.

 

[Ned]

YouTube it when you get home. I wanna see it!

 

[AcerFC]

Since ned seems knowledgeable. I used one in February. I just got around to unloading it into my computer. A lot of.it was in almost slow motion. Kind of ruined a lot of moments. Any thoughts

 

[belljr]

Pretty sure you just point it at what you want to record

 

[Andy Dufresne]

You'll run out of battery before you run out of memory.

Just make sure you have it set to video and not pictures.

I would suggest not recording one long video. Be sure to start and stop - it makes editing easier.