The Absolute Best Settings for the Xiaomi Yi 4K Action Camera | Back Roads Riding | Tech Tips #01

This video covers the best settings, in my opinion , for the Yi 4K Action Camera. The Xiaomi Yi 4K Action Camera has become my daily use camera. It is my dash cam and my general use action camera. I still love my GoPro Hero 5 and Hero 6, but this Yi 4K has captured a place in my equipment list. This is a great camera for motorcycle riding and for helmet footage.

I talk about two different levels of settings, one for daily use (no editing) and one for high quality flat footage that I will white balance, color grade, and sharpen in post editing. I will give a short description of each below:

Daily Driver Video Settings (For general daily use, no editing)
Resolution: 1080/60
Field of View: Wide
Metering Mode: Spot
Auto Low Light: Off
Video Quality: High
WB: Auto
Color: Yi Color
ISO Max: Auto
Sharpness: High
EV: 0
Electronic Image Stabilization: Off
Time Stamp: Off
File Size: 4GB

Video Settings for Post Filming Editing
Resolution: 1080/60
Field of View: Wide
Metering Mode: Average
Auto Low Light: Off
Video Quality: High
WB: Native
Color: Flat
ISO Max: 400
Sharpness: Low
EV: -1 (During Daylight Hours)
Electronic Image Stabilization: Off
Time Stamp: Off
File Size: 4GB

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[luisboto]

For me, this is the best video I found about this camera. Thanks

[MichaelHadac]

Good Report! I have a NeonTek 4K ULTRA HD cam. The Video picture is fine, however I get Static Buzzing noise for the first 10 or 15 seconds of video recording. Then it quiets down with normal sound. How can I get rid of it..? Any ideas? Thanks, Michael.

[sanchariBahubali]

I am recording in 1080p and editing in resolve 17. when I watch on youtube the quality is very bad. I am compressing the video to reduce the size of the file in Handbrake compressing software. can suggest me any ideas?

[muhdazroykampret]

im already buy yi lite..now i have issue sound delay when record..how to solve this??

[IvantheTraveler]

What's the difference of the auto iso on auto and switch button or auto low light?

[dinorossi]

Thank you for the video. I have a problem with my cam. Pictures come out perfect but videos are always to bright unless they are filmed in a thick shade. No matter what setting I chose. What do you suggest? Thanks

[sfmhmsq]

Great camera that takes great video. I used to set it at 1080/60 BUT unless you have a high powered PC, you will not be able to view it and I have an old i7 gaming PC and it is like playing a 1920's movie. Just be realistic on how you set the camera up defending on usage that works for you.

[JkDubbed]

I just got 2 yi-4k's and did a test video. It recorded my video too fast.
On playback in the camera, it's like 1.5 - 2x speed.
I thought it was my video editor on my computer at first (Screenflow 7), but nope... It's the camera.
Any tips to fix this?

[EatTravelHappy]

Hello again, update on my new Yi 4K Plus with the jitters.
For some reason I did not have the option of 60 FPS. It would only give me the the choice of x2 or x4 in frame rate. I did a direct connect of the camera to the computer with the USB jack. Ran the video in the player on a PC. Bad jitters really bad. Unplugged the camera. Went to settings in the camera and all of a sudden I had a whole slew of options of 30 and 60 FPS. Ran more sample vid in 60 fps in stabilization mode in 1080p plugged the camera back into the laptop and beautiful, no jitters on any of the sample vid's in slow-mo or regular speed. Thanks for the heads up on the settings. I was ready to return it. AWESOME CAMERA NOW WITH YOUR HELPFUL VIDEO. I JUST SUBSCRIBED. P.S. I need you to do a video on Adobe Premiere review as me and my wife are just getting started on our travel channel on YouTube. Still looking for a video editing software. Thank you so much for this video.

[nagazinafireworks]

Hi I have the same camera every time I try to film it in 4k then post it on YouTube it comes all pixelated and then Max I can see it and is I believe 480 even when I do it in 1080p it's still very pixelated on YouTube what am I doing wrong thanks

[encalica]

Question! I'm going away for 5 days, and bringing one of these with me. Which memory card should I buy for it? - action cam novice

[RanGer-]

what exactly is "metering mode"? thanks.

[keaty]

What would you say best settings for a cloudy dull day in the UK for riding mountin bikes? Will run at 1400p 60 fps. Thanks.. Oo I will be editing in resolve later.

[EatTravelHappy]

just got the Yi Plus and yep the stabilizer is making the video jump badly.

[derekl]

Appreciate the video. well made. you could make technical videos when your butt is tired of riding.

[mattkochanowski]

took YI 4k+ for 2 day horse trip. My goal was to take some footage of horse canter @ 720p / 240fps and play with Slo-mo in post editing. Came back disappointed AF. The video quality of that mode is comparable with jpegs that had 99% compression Constantly moving camera on the helmet makes things worse obviously. Guess gonna stick to 4k 60/30 next time unless I am shit at setting this camera up :((

[MakHash]

Mic sound issues are not there anymore, i can confirm. So i deleted my previous question regarding sound issues.

[alderny]

Before making any adjustments to this camera it should firstly be set to the NTSC or PAL standard. Most of the world uses PAL, with a frame rate of 50fps. This is important if you want to mix your video with that taken from standard video cameras and when videoing under fluorescent lightning. Perhaps you have assumed that your video will only be watched in North America.

[LifeinLasVegas]

This is a very helpful video. Thanks! #lifeinlasvegasbaby

[Неизвестный-ъп]

This video is a deception, I bought the camera and the video shooting quality is poor, not very ugly with all the modifications