Do you Video your Hunts? What setups work well for you?

[TheGDog]

Just curious to here the recommendations from folks who've recorded themselves taking the animal. Interested to hear your experience on what setups worked best for you. And how you go about using them.

For Example:
Do you try to just reach over and record once you've spotted something near your ambush spot? Or do you let the cam roll during those primo hours and just go back and edit it down for time?

Spot-and-Stalk Guys: What different challenges does this present you with?

EDIT: I'm more interested in budget-minded approaches to this.

 

[HortoTheSlayer]

I was just wondering the same thing. I've encountered some pretty cool places recently and my phone camera doesnt do it justice. Nice pictures but I want to capture the sounds and just overall higher quality video.

 

[HATCHET1]

Cell phone camera out of the truck..hell..even thru the windshield works Larry..i just never gave it much thought..

 

[SteveHazard]

Depends on the type of hunt and the perspective your going for. Shotgun stuff can be made to look and sound awesome with a properly mounted gopro on your head. But the same setup sucks for scoped rifles IMO as the camera doesn't have a tight enough focal lens to see things that are rifle range for the most part and too much of the optic is in frame.

 

[TheGDog]

Yeah, I know about wearing the head mount slightly off to your less dominant side so that when you lean-in to the shot or bow-shot it gets the correct angle.

I guess I was more curious about how the guys that do it with a dedicated video camera on a tripod do it. Like what's an inexpensive setup that still makes fairly decent footage for this application. What things or features have they learned by doing are important to have in the camera and setup you ultimately buy? And possibly other insights they might have like which file formats might lend themselves better to editing later, etc. If you get a memory card make sure it has blah blah blah.

Perhaps minor discussion about which Video Editing software products they've found that give them enough "goodies" to work with so the production value looks of decent quality when they're done.

For example, I have music compositions I've made back in older versions of ACID Pro, and when updating to newer versions I'd load back in project and the Envelope settings for applying a particular Sound-Effect Plug-in on a particular track would sometimes just not transfer over right into the newer version. So like your Multi-Tapped Echo that you pain-stakingly applied at certain places would have to be re-done.

If they can tell ya about gotchas like that, those are gold.

 

[CazadorSuerte]

Welcome back G.....

 

[TheGDog]

Roger that, thank you. ILTI, right?

 

[Bowman]

I had cam that clipped on to a ball cap or hat. video recording was awesome and clear, but it was heavy enough it was never on target. and the video would fill up the micro sdcard fast.
back a few years a ago. F___P missing some good times.

 

[SteveHazard]

What cameras or phone do you have right now?

 

[HATCHET1]

Android..

 

[BOWUNTR]

I'm with Hatchet... Android. Ed F

 

[SteveHazard]

Nice work but that is some terrible quality video. Why is the resolution so bad?

 

[HATCHET1]

Actual Hunter hunting would be my guess...?

 

[Bowman]

Go pro

 

[BOWUNTR]

Nice work but that is some terrible quality video. Why is the resolution so bad?

I'm hoping Larry will have answers for both of us...

Probably because the original video was texted twice before I posted it. Ed F

 

[SteveHazard]

Actual Hunter hunting would be my guess...?

I'm hoping Larry will have answers for both of us...

Probably because the original video was texted twice before I posted it. Ed F

OK that makes sense. The video had good stabilization so seemed weird the res was so low.

 

[TheGDog]

I'm hoping Larry will have answers for both of us...

Probably because the original video was texted twice before I posted it. Ed F

Yeah... if you go into the playback settings on that Youtube vid, you'll notice that it only offers 240p as the highest "Quality" setting. So yeah when it was texted over to somebody else, it was probably converted down from *.mp4 or whatever hi-res format it might natively record in... over into one of those lower res formats like older smart phones used to use, like *.3gp or *.3g2. Because they figure that way if you send it to someone with an older phone, their still going to be able to read/view it, AND, more importantly, regular full-size 1080p vids are going to be quite big in size and would take forever , to send and recv that way phone-to-phone. And the Telcom companies want to conserve bandwidth whenever they can.

 

[TheGDog]

What cameras or phone do you have right now?

Cellphone = Samsung S10.
GoPro HERO3

That's part of why I asked this question, so if I decide to buy a smaller PalmSized VideoRecorder, I'd have a better idea which ones have the features set I'd want for this particular activity. Like from the videos I've watched where others have discussed it, on some models you can tweak things for example to turn off the Auto-Focusing stuff once you've got it focus out on somewhere, to prevent it from "fishing" for focus during moment of truth. Some can go from off to on and recording in a nice quick amount of time. Things like that. Some have remotes, so you can invoke them without moving, etc.

 

[SteveHazard]

Cellphone = Samsung S10.
GoPro HERO3

That's part of why I asked this question, so if I decide to buy a smaller PalmSized VideoRecorder, I'd have a better idea which ones have the features set I'd want for this particular activity. Like from the videos I've watched where others have discussed it, on some models you can tweak things for example to turn off the Auto-Focusing stuff once you've got it focus out on somewhere, to prevent it from "fishing" for focus during moment of truth. Some can go from off to on and recording in a nice quick amount of time. Things like that. Some have remotes, so you can invoke them without moving, etc.

Unless you have an even older or worse camera that retailed for $100+ originally working or not you can send that Hero 3 into Gopro for a hundred off the Hero 8. I have the 7 and the 3. The 3 is worthless compared to the 7. And any action cam should have good stabilization so that is the Hero 7 or 8 or OsmoAction. The lag time to record if the camera is off can be terrible but if it is in standby it is instant. But that sucks battery so I have mine plugged into a 10K milA battery on the back of my head strap now and it also helps to counter balance the camera, lasts the whole day. Leaving the camera recording all the time just sucks up too much power and memory. I record in 2.7K/60 Wide for hunting. I can zoom in some that way a still keep the zoomed in quality above 1080, 4k would take up too much memory and is a strain on my comp to edit. And 60 fps lets you do 50% speed for a slow mo shot if you want. I'm using premiere pro to edit but if you don't have access to adobe CC I would DL the free version of DaVinci Resolve and use that to edit. I might anyways as premiere pisses me off.

For stationary or handheld shots I think the S10 should be good enough. You should be able to go into it and tweek the settings enough. Just get something to hold it comfortably in a horizontal position.

 

[HATCHET1]

Oh my..