Copy THIS Setup For WARP SPEED Action Camera Footage

Make your action camera footage LOOK as fast as it FELT. With three levels of crazy to choose from...

Isaiah's YouTube channel: @rapkoresearch

0:00 - What makes something FEEL fast?
2:20 - Level One
3:37 - Level Two
5:00 - Level Two (and a half)
6:59 - Level THREEEEEE
10:03 - Threat level midnight

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[dirtyoffroader]

To make it look faster.. I just go faster.. then I also have bonus crash footage 😂.

Jokes aside, some great set up tips there, love it 😎👍

[Munthegun]

Dude, so I’ve got to give you props. I’m not a huge “mess around with settings” type dude, but my footage always looks so slow so I gave your tips in this vid a whirl and hot damn, it made it so much better. Like way way better. Just wanted to say thanks for helping my slow ass look even alittle quick. You’re the man amigo.

[steffen]

I really gotta admit: I've been watching MTB content on Youtube for the past 6-7 years. I've seen most Channels change for the worse - being that click bait thumbnail / controversial Video Title what so ever. But I always find myself enjoying your content no matter what. Keep up the good work Ryan!

[ronoster]

Ryan, I like your videos. I love this one! At 75, I know I don't ride like you guys but I do have the fastest times on my trails in my age bracket. And I am always looking to improve (which your videos have helped me to accomplish). But why I really like this video is I am a photographer/videographer and taught it in high school. The subtleties you have covered are pin point. Field of view, wide angle, sound quality especially were some of the greatest challenges my students had to learn as they were learning how to make movies. You can't see sound! It shows its angry head only when you get to see (and hear) what you captured on yesterday's takes. If I had the chance to work with you with the new technology and my new sport of MTB I would finish my life in the clouds. Thanks for what you have done. I will stay in touch on your channel.

[zwingler]

From experience id say Framerate is my personal favorite of increasing sense of speed. Everything in 60fps looks so smooth and clean. 24-30 fps is impressively chaotic.

[Ushtang]

Former 360 cam user here.... Was using the Insta360 One RS. I too reframed my footage and zoomed out a little more in post, really like how there were no warped edges but I didn't like the stretched, spaghetti look it was giving to my arms which you can kind of see in your video. I've seen other videos where it's much worse. But I'm back to using a single lens camera.

As for ND filters, I think it's worth mentioning ND filters can interfere with image stabilization on some cameras, which is why I really like your tip on shooting later in the day to get more blur as using ND filters always added less image stabilization to may footage. Going to try that next.

[jordanmalama]

I've been living by these settings. Earned fan right here.

[MasTaurina]

This is perhaps the most useful video I have seen for us the one who are struggling to make a nice MTB shot. Thank you so much.

[Radln_Jeden_Tag]

Maybe Important to know for Step 3: Lowering the shutterspeed increases motion blurr BUT also for the shaking of the Camera -->As (exept for using gimbals) almost every action cam uses Electronic image stabilisation, they relay on a sharp image for the stabalisation to work properly --> shakey or blurry footage (I often think its hard to watch). You have to find a good middleground.
Thats why I sometimes try to ad "fake" Motion Blurr when editing but I haven't gotten anything convincing of it.

[BoardsBikesAndHikes]

This. Was.Sick🙌🏻also super pumped to try out the wind mufflers on my x3 I just got🙏🏻thank you for all of this

[DISABLED-]

Great tips!

That gully trail is local to me. But Isiah is crazy fast too. :D

[pkvillager]

Good tips! I never saw those insta360 wind mufflers before, ordering them now!

[MehmetSevil]

10:57 I moved my head to the left while watching. Well done sir. :)

[BKER]

First off, 24f for LIFE! Hahahahaha, I'm with you on the frame rate. I remember when I first realized that. I was like why in the heck is anyone saying to film in anything else? Second, those mic covers are awesome. I'm gonna have to pic some of those up.

[FreerideQuebec]

You've been my greatest inspiration for video setting for many years now...but 60FPS all day ;)

[Mntalbug]

Great video mate! Straight to the point, no bs cliffhanger before the real informations start coming in, you immediately show footage demonstrating exactly what you're explaining. Nice work! :)
I like how your advices on the framerate and lighting can help have footage quickly usable while reducing the (potentially dreadful) post-prod work ^^

[bauke-LV]

2 minutes in and I am amazed again how awesome you teach and explain. Exactly as with the Stand up to the Jump and the Stupid fast Cornering. I'm going to continue watching this vid... and I don't even have an action camera! :)

[AndreLaurentMTB]

Pretty cool ideas if you are seriously into video production or you want to exert the effort make that top notch production at level 3. The typical MTB rider that wants to record the ride is going to find it hard to continuously change settings, stopping before or on a ride interrupts the flow & can piss of a group ride.

The Best all round & general solution at this point is probably using a good 360 degree camera which has ND (motion blur) functionality in the editing software (like the Insta360 suite), stay at Level 2 with everything included without having to futz around at level 3.

Stress less, ride more. Stay safe!

[levowski]

Another very effective way to add peripheral speed i discovered is to correct the distortion of the footage, usually the very wide FOV of action cam (not 360) distorts very heavily the images making things near the centre of the image to appear bigger: this makes the things ur passing by "move" less in the frame. Distortion corrected footage makes u feel like u are traveling more space in the same amount of time compared to non-corrected ones.
Hope this can help!

[johnnysmithphotographyandf]

EXACTLY!!…. Well done!! I’ve been filming mtn bike rides since the original GoPro Hero I wore on my wrist … lower frame rate is way to go!! I don’t wanna film what I see, I want to film what I feel!