- Can this be used for vlogging?
I don't know, let's find out.
GoPro Hero 7 Black.
They're always like, "Wow,
everybody should be vlogging
"on a GoPro."
(chuckles)
I don't think so.
Of course you would say that.
You make trillions of
dollars by selling these.
Ah, shoot!
I don't have a microSD card here.
I guess I'm probably gonna
have to wait till tomorrow
to get one and then I can start.
Whoa!
Holy crap!
I'm moving this camera like
this, and on the screen
it looks like I'm on a tripod.
This is insane!
There's times when I'm
moving the camera around,
I'm like uh-oh, the camera froze on me
because its not moving.
It's just stabilized it
so well where it looked
like it just locked in.
Wow, this is actually like, this is...
All right, finally got
myself a microSD card.
Now yeah, the GoPro Hero 7
did improve the audio quality.
I assure it doesn't sound too bad.
I'm like right up against
the camera right here.
All right, so what we're
gonna do is we're gonna attach
an external microphone to the GoPro.
Just a heads up, if you
have this sitting on top
of your camera, people will
come up to you and just start
petting it like it's some
sort of cute squirrel
that was trained to sit on your camera.
I'm gonna attach you and see
how much better it sounds,
so here we go.
This is what it sounds like
with the RODE Microphone
on top in raw, and then
I like to do a little bit
of processing to my voice
to make me sound cooler.
So, this is what it sounds
like if turn that on.
And now this is how I usually record
and post-process my audio.
Do you guys want more lighting?
I could give you more lighting.
There, is that any better?
I have no idea what this frame looks like.
That's what sucks about
having a flippy floppy screen.
(grunts)
I just feel inspired to do athletic things
because I'm filming on a GoPro.
So I feel way more comfortable
with an actual microphone
mounted right on top of the camera.
'Cause you're getting
way more consistencies
and I'm not gonna be as
concerned about the audio
just like randomly dipping
out all the sudden.
All right, so here's
what I collected so far.
Here's the GoPro Hero 7, and
then a cage for the Hero 7,
even though it says 5,
but don't believe in that,
that's fake news.
Main benefit of the cage is
that it has a hot shoe mount
which allows me to mount this guy on here.
And then, of course, a
wind muff and this adapter,
which allows me to connect a
regular microphone like this
into the side of the camera
here, which is open right there.
And, of course, one of
these to make it complete.
Pouring rain right now,
but I can still vlog,
which is kinda cool.
So, technically this
microphone isn't waterproof
and the port is open on
the side of the camera,
so that I could plug the microphone in.
So even the camera
itself isn't waterproof,
but I feel a lot more
comfortable letting this thing
get rained on than my EOS R.
So, one thing that I do
find nice about this rig
is that it's so simple
and straightforward.
All I do is just pick it out of the bag
and hit that record
button, and I'm recording.
And I absolutely love the
fact that it's a GoPro,
so I know it's getting a really wide shot.
I can't really see the
monitor, but the fact is I know
I'm being recorded because I can be like
all the way over here and
all the way over here,
and I'm still in the frame.
What's this box?
I don't know, somebody loves me.
So, I get packages like this all the time,
'cause I'm just that freaking cool.
Who sent me cool stuff this time?
I don't know.
Hovershoes, what?
Does the GoPro Hero 7
look good in an unboxing?
Let's see, you guys can get
right up in here with me.
(sipping)
Mm!
This is really difficult
to take out of this box.
I'm the best unboxer ever.
Hovershoes, this is
how I'm getting around.
I'm gonna go shopping to the mall--
- Dude!
What the heck you doing, man?
Is that, are you opening up my boxes?
- I thought you weren't--
- That's my club soda you're drinking.
Where did you come from?
- I'll leave.
- Please, thank you.
I'll continue this.
- I should just be an
unboxing channel, huh?
I should just do that.
Let me just unbox a bunch of stuff.
- You struggled quite hard, so
I don't know about that, man.
You should probably just do this stuff.
- My least favorite thing
about this cage, though,
is that it says the Hero 5 on here, but--
- Yeah, that's really misleading.
- Yeah, I mean--
- It makes you kind of look lame.
- Yeah, I mean what am I a peasant?
(laughing)
For all you people watching with a Hero 5,
you can just go ahead and unsubscribe.
- Unsubscribe right now.
- Look how much equipment
is in this room right now,
and I'm vlogging on a GoPro.
- This is the 7, right?
- This is the 7, yeah.
- Yeah, the 7 is great.
It's the first GoPro that
I've actually liked using,
and then the results have
actually been decent.
How does it do in low light,
though, that's the question.
- Let's find out.
- GoPro, low light.
Check these moves out, you know?
That's how you get
around the office, buddy.
- I just punched in the lens a little bit
so I don't see this microphone.
- You got a nice little microphone here.
I've never seen that on a GoPro.
- Did I not tell you
that people just come up
and start petting this thing all the time.
(laughing)
- It's great for sound, oh!
- So right now, we're
kind of in low light.
We're not even in the light and--
- Super low light.
This is kind of my actual up set here.
This is like my first
time here at nighttime,
so it's a little bit different,
but this is how I usually light things.
- Would you ever vlog again on a GoPro?
- I would vlog if I was like,
let's say, snowboarding,
or snorkeling, or something like that.
I would do it on a GoPro, but
I think for me, not having
shallow depth of field and
being able to change lenses
and that kind of stuff, that
kind of kills it for me.
I mean, that's for me.
I care a lot about the
image, the look of it,
all that stuff.
But if you're just out
there to tell stories,
yeah, this is probably
a pretty good set-up.
- Yeah.
- What do you think?
- I'm actually digging it
more than I thought I would--
- Are you gonna switch to this?
- I'm gonna throw away that EOS R.
You're the one that recommended the EOS R.
Thanks for making me spend all that money.
That thing is going in the trash.
Giveaway on my EOS R.
Just kidding, but Matti's
giving his away, so take it--
- I'm not giving away mine!
- Look at this set up here.
This is fancy schmancy, this is--
Oh my god, what's happening?
Help, 911!
Canadian police, help!
I thought Canadians were
supposed to be nice!
- This should help you a little bit.
- Oh, we're having a war here.
Why'd you give, what is this?
No!
This only has one shot.
I'm being hit in the nuts and everything.
What is that?
That's like the Terminator.
I only have one bullet out of this thing.
- I'm sorry, I had to,
it was just too much fun.
- But look how smooth this footage is.
Isn't this amazing?
I'm not coming back here anymore.
I only shot one, so I'm doing my part.
(Matti laughs)
- Thanks buddy.
- I think this is the best place to learn
how to use one of these, is right next to
a very expensive cinema camera.
- Oh yeah, don't hit that please.
- This thing is gonna make
me do the splits, isn't it?
Now here's the camera set up
we've been working with so far.
The thing that's been driving me crazy
is this trained squirrel
popping into frame,
so you can see on the top of the frame.
So, we have a few options.
We could just take this
off, but then we're dealing
with all the sound, and
it's gonna sound like this--
(blowing into speaker)
And that sound sucks, I really hate that,
so I'm leaving that on here.
I could also give this a little haircut.
But I just went to the store,
picked up this little guy right here.
It's got a hot shoe on the
bottom, a 1/4-inch up top,
and it came with this little
adapter to make it a 3/8-inch.
This microphone can be mounted
with a hot shoe or 3/8-inch,
so that should fit in right here.
Now we got ourselves an extension.
We could even go to
SuperView, and it's still
not in the frame, so we're good.
For this next segment, I'm
gonna drop down to 2.4K
and shoot in linear.
I wanna see what that looks like.
'Cause it looks like a GoPro
with its super wide-angle lens,
and that's cool, that's
just how the GoPros look
with their super wide-angle lens.
But I wanna see if I can make it look
a little bit less GoPro-y.
So I'm gonna pop it into
Protune, turn the color profile
to flat, and color grade it
afterwards, and also switch it
into linear to get rid
of some that distortion,
and let's see how that looks.
All right, so here is a
real-world test on what it's like
to be vlogging with this new set-up.
No worries about this little
fluffy thing coming into frame.
(car horn)
It sounds pretty good.
I don't know what that was about.
So Matti's taking us somewhere
kind of interesting, I guess.
Where are we right now?
- I'm a little confused myself
of where we are right now.
(laughing)
- Where are you taking us?
Why are we at a airport?
Who are you?
- I have no idea.
(laughing)
Chris Nicholas, we're gonna take you guys
on a little helitour.
I'm buddies with Matti, my wife and I are.
We're gonna basically take
you guys up around the city.
And I've never flown into
or out of this airport,
so bare with me, it
might be a little rocky.
- So yeah, apparently
this is his helicopter.
I'm finally part of a cool
helicopter YouTuber crew.
That just like goes
everywhere on a helicopter
for no apparent reason.
It's like let's go get some groceries.
Let's take the chopper.
(helicopter blades chopping)
(helicopter blades chopping)
- hat's kind of scary
walking away from that helicopter,
just knowing that it
could chop your head off.
That was insane, thanks for
that little surprise, Matti.
- I think it was flying around the city
that made it so cool for me,
that just like, I don't know.
Just seeing all the
buildings and flying so close
to the CN Tower and
stuff, like I don't know.
- Yeah!
- It just got really quiet.
(laughing)
- The helicopter first
turned on and it was like--
(rumbles)
Like you feel like you're in a old Chevy.
And then all the sudden
you lift up in the air.
That was pretty insane.
The GoPro in low light
looks like this in a city.
Not that great.
And a lot of kind of
mushiness in the colors.
I mean it's not terrible,
you can still see at
night in a city like this.
Matti has fans all over Toronto.
Got a little pocket of light
here, so I'm gonna utilize
this part to tell you that
the low light performance
is pretty similar to an
iPhone, so nothing significant.
If low light is very important to you,
one of these mirrorless
cameras, like a full-frame,
would do much, much better for you.
If you're looking for a
pocket-size camera that's good
in low light, then the
G7 X is pretty solid.
A strange man is following me.
Somebody please call the police.
(laughing)
But yeah, that's generally
how it looks to vlog
on the GoPro Hero 7.
- The question is, would you
recommend it for the audience
to vlog on this set-up?
- Oh, I think if you
film in a lot of rain,
if you ride a lot of jet
skis, just like you did--
- Wait, who films in a lot of rain?
It's another rainy day,
I'm gonna go out there.
- How do you not?
If you live in Toronto, how do you--
- It's rained like everyday.
- He asked me a serious
question, he's like,
"How do you guys, like, drive here?"
I was like what are you talking about?
- You can't see the lane.
It's raining so hard
you can't see the lane.
You just like wake up
in the morning and go,
"Bye honey, I'm gonna to the office."
Then you just like get in
your car and it's just like--
The image itself, it's the GoPro look.
You're gonna get the GoPro
look, there's no avoiding that.
- You kind of have to keep
this distance at all times.
You don't wanna be...
(laughs)
Both of those suck.
- Yeah, I hear a lot
of people just wanting
to go into it with their
phones, or maybe a GoPro,
and I think if you're kind of in that
entry level camera field for vlogging,
I think it might make
sense to go with this.
Especially if you do a lot
of like action sports stuff,
if you're a skateboarder.
- Or if your budget's not too big,
then this is probably
a good set-up, right?
- Right, yeah, it's
about 400 for the camera,
and then all the
accessories and everything,
I think is probably about
another 100 bucks, so--
- That's pretty good.
- Yeah.
- $500, $600, whatever.
- Right.
- For a full vlogging set-up,
can't really beat that.
- Right, and the durability of the GoPro,
I mean, I could just take
this camera and just--
- [Matti] You should just smash it!
- Can't forget, I have
to read the comments.
And another upside of
having a GoPro opposed to
like a mirrorless camera is
that you look a little bit
less insane filming yourself
in public places, like this.
Anyways, I'm heading
back to Los Angeles now.
Thanks, Matti, for showing me
a good time around Toronto.
I will definitely be back.
And yeah, I don't really feel like Matti
needs an introduction.
You guys probably already know who he is.
But yeah, we shot some videos
together while I was here
in Toronto, so make sure you're
subscribed to his channel
to see those.
Top comment was, "I love your videos.
"So entertaining haha," by Matti.
Matti, I just saw you.
Armando says, "Smash that like
button if you think he looks
"like Russell the kid from UP."
Thanks Armando.
Dave Dugdale is asking what
editing software I use.
Adobe Premiere, all the way.
Ton of different editing
softwares out there.
I'm sure many of them are good,
but I'm just very comfortable
with Adobe Premiere.
I've been using it for a super long time,
so that's what I use.
Creative Films says,
"The EOS R was a big
fail for videographers."
Yeah, you know, the Canon
isn't perfect, I'll admit that,
but can I just remind you
of this poll right here?
I don't think the camera
that got 85% of the votes
is a fail.
I'm Jack's Nipples says, well
that an interesting name.
"Why is there so much
hate from both sides,
"they're just cameras?"
Just cameras?
Only, it's just my only child.
"Potato Jet as much as I like you,
"you're sponsored by Canon."
Not so fast, Abdul.
I have a very unbiased opinion on cameras.
I mean, I have a Canon G7 X Mark II,
a Canon M50, a Canon 80D, a Canon EOS R,
a Canon C100 Mark II.
Oh, wait a second.
Anyways, this video is
getting really long.
I'm about to miss my flight,
so I'll see you guys later.
