The BEST GoPro Settings for POV Surfing! (Full Setup & Accessories)

Hey legends, welcome back to my channel. In today's highly requested video, I'm going to be showing you the best GoPro settings for POV surfing. I'll be covering the best resolutions, frame rates, protune settings and accessories that I use to capture the highest quality footage, plus a bunch more. Let's jump right into it. Before we jump into the technical aspects, you've got to ask yourself what kind of footage you want to be shooting and where are you going to be posting it. For example, if you only want to shoot barrels, you want a higher frame rate so you can get that really smooth slow motion. Or if you're only uploading to Instagram but you'd only want to be shooting in 1080, otherwise 4K is just going to use up all your storage. Just something to think about so you can get the most out of your camera. I have a floaty and the mouth mount set up. I don't use a leash or anything. I've never actually lost mine. A lot of people ask me that. This is what she looks like. There's the mouth mount. You can see, nice and grippy and rubbery. Really easy to put into your mouth and breathe in. And I'll just click record before a wave. As soon as the wave ends, I'll stop recording. It's as simple as that. So what resolution should you be filming in? I always shoot in 2.7K. That's the best one for formatting. It's really high quality. It pretty much looks like 4K footage but it's not as large of a file and it's more compatible on your devices. And then you want 60 frames per second. I've seen some people shoot in like 30 or 24 frames per second. And the footage isn't nearly as clean. You need that 60 frames per second because it's an action sport. So you want to be able to capture all that movement without that blur. So that is what I run no matter what the conditions are. If you were just getting barrels and you want that really nice slow-mo, you can put the frame rate up. So I'd put that at like 120 frames per second. With the lens or the angle you want to be shooting in, Superview. Superview is a game changer. You can capture everything. So Superview, 2.7K, 60 frames per second. With HyperSmooth, I turn that on or on high. If we click the pen icon, low light, zoom, clips, I don't use any of that stuff. Moving into the ProTune setting. So the first one we can see is bitrate. You want that on high. If you have that on low, the quality is just not going to come out as good. With the shutter, I've always kept that on auto and you'll see a lot of the other ProTune settings I've actually kept on auto. You can play around with this stuff, whatever suits you. Same with the EV comp, I keep that on zero. The white balance, I also have on auto. The ISO min, I have on 100. The ISO max, I have on 400. I believe that's default too. Now for the sharpness, I run it on medium. If you put the sharpness up to high, it's just a bit too sharp. With the color, I believe it's different options on the Hero 10 than the Hero 8 and maybe it's like that with the 9 and some other models. But I keep my Hero 10 on vibrant instead of the flat color. But with the Hero 8, you only have two options. You have flat or GoPro. I put it on the GoPro one. It's just a bit more vibrant. Raw audio, I have off. Wind, I also have off. So there's a glitch with the GoPros where out on the surf, I think water must get in the microphone and just ruins the audio. So I've had it where you can't even hear anything. And to fix this, I took a lot of researching. In the wind mode, it should be on auto or on. You got to turn that off and a lot more sound comes in because I think it's using the raw mic. It's the only way you can get sound if you've run into this glitch. And then there's also a shortcut section. I've actually never used those either. So you don't have to worry about those. Now, if you swipe down from the top, there's going to be a few options for you there. There's like the voice control, the audio, slow motion, the lock button. The only ones I use for that is the lock. You want to lock your screen because the water is going to touch the screen and play around with your settings. I learned this from Brett Barley, the orientation lock. Because we're going to be shooting upside down. You want to just have it like that and then click the orientation lock on it. All your footage is going to come out so you don't need to flip it after. I keep them on permanently. I'm just set, ready to go. The settings aren't going to change. All I have to do is hit record. Some of the general settings that you want to be aware of if you're under preferences. If we go into the general settings, we have the beep volume. You can have that however you want. Quick capture, I don't use. So with the auto power off, I keep that at 30 minutes. If you're sitting longer than 30 minutes, it's going to turn itself off. I don't think that's ever happened to me. So you want that longer. The other really important one is the video compression. I've run into a lot of problems with the HEVC format. So I put it on to H.26 plus HEVC and that allows when I shoot in 2.7K 60 frames per second, the H.264 format. You can compress it after if you have shot in HEVC, but it will lessen the quality a bit. So I'd definitely be aware of that one. And that's why I don't shoot in 4K 60 frames per second on the HERO10 because the only format they have for that is HEVC. Now with the lens on the HERO10, they've got this hydrophobic lens that is meant to be completely water repellent. Well, they've actually like ruined it because it's not 100% water repellent and you can't use the lick dunk method, which is what I use on the HERO8. Now it's such a shame because on the HERO8, I know this is kind of gross, but you lick it or spit on it and then you'll dunk it in the water as I'm paddling for the wave. It just creates this residue on the lens that stops water drops from getting on it. Whereas with this one, they've made this awesome technology, but it's actually completely ruined it. So I just rub it on my shoulder to kind of clear it all off and it helps. It's the best system I've found, but again, I still get water drops on it as you've probably seen in heaps of my footage. I've actually been having heaps of errors with this. So I'm going through the settings with this. This will just turn itself on and off rapidly without me even touching it. So I have to call GoPro and probably get a new one. Now, if we talk about some of the angles, how you want your mount placed, I will have it flat. So it's completely flat when I do it and that's when I'm doing turns or airs, that's how I like it. But you can point it even further down if you're just doing airs so you can see more of your board. But even when you have it flat, I find that my airs look fine. Now with barrels, this one's really important. I wish someone told me this. I went out in a session, I didn't know about this yet, and just had a pointy like that and it didn't look like I got barreled the whole time. So what you want to do is lift that up quite a lot, like above 45 degrees. It looks ridiculous like you're pointing at the sky. When you actually see the footage, it just helps see that lip come over to show how truly deep you are. And it'll look like this. Usually in the surf, I'll try and get this horizontal with the horizon and then adjust it. Turns and airs, barrels. And the best thing is with the newer GoPros, you still have access to that screen although I don't use that on the surf either. I think that wraps it up guys. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did find it helpful, please leave a like and consider subscribing. I post heaps of POV surfing and I want to do way more tutorials and educational videos just like this one. Keep frothing guys and I'll catch you in the next one.