Thread: Action camera

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Picked up an action4 today, micro SD card will be in my mailbox when I get home Tuesday or Wednesday and then the fun begins learning to record and edit videos

@Happy Jack
Awesome stuff mate the one thing i've learnt from filming my roar hunts, normally spend 4-6weeks sika hunting is that dont ignore your inner voice i mean you get to a good looking spot good feed, grass whatever start recording incase anything happens. You've got more then enough memory card space and battery to do it so just do it nothing happens delete it later easy enough but catching the moment when something does is priceless. The times when i didn't ive gotten onto sika, been busted by one whatever and then it too late to record much worthwhile

I can't imagine recording video while hunting, at least not the close range, bush stuff. Well done to you guys that can pull it off. Fishing is easy!

We are going 4 months on the road with our caravan and the idea is to document our trip, some will end up on Youtube but probably not all the trip.

I also have another channel with nothing on it yet but that's for outdoor stuff.

Links will go up once we get going.

Originally Posted by Carbine

DJI Action 4 has the best battery out of them all and doesn't overheat and shut down like go pros do also has the best stabilization and can do 4k120fps if slow mo is required in the edit no worries there

This is my footage from a Action 3 and its bloody awesome but now have the 4 so better HDR 10 bit colour and bigger lens etc so footage on that is even better(colours low light etc)
This is mine out hunting the output bitrate is alot lower just for file size etc but can be right up there, so you can see how good the rock steady stabilization is give its mounted on my cap its pretty smooth
also has horizontal balance on so always level - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GtNiojH43E

@Carbine that's some really smooth footage. Subscribed.

Been impressed so far with the image stabilisation on the action 4 this was shot yesterday while my wife was driving.

https://youtu.be/Edf5Uk_7pyQ?si=Jeai3XaGDsccG2xG

Very happy with the DJI Action 4, just received a chest harness courtesy of Aliexpress today. Look out Youtube although I'm not as good as Tasman at making videos.

I have a couple of GoPro 7's. Recording @1440P and 60fps their footage is fantastic. But lordy lordy, how pathetic that GoPro had to go from version 3 to version 11 before the little bastards didn't freeze up, refusing any and all commands till you drop the battery out and replace. VERY VERY shoddy. If I need a replacement it'll be the DJI.

Technology certainly has come a long way since we used VHS cameras to record our shenanigans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk38dnbnzmI

I like how the action 4 has voice command and can be controlled from your phone to set it recording, play back etc. Oh and with Bluetooth 5.0 it reaches out to 240m so they say, yet to test this though.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Been impressed so far with the image stabilisation on the action 4 this was shot yesterday while my wife was driving.

https://youtu.be/Edf5Uk_7pyQ?si=Jeai3XaGDsccG2xG

Good music HJ,nice ocean to film to.

Originally Posted by XR500

I have a couple of GoPro 7's. Recording @1440P and 60fps their footage is fantastic. But lordy lordy, how pathetic that GoPro had to go from version 3 to version 11 before the little bastards didn't freeze up, refusing any and all commands till you drop the battery out and replace. VERY VERY shoddy. If I need a replacement it'll be the DJIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk38dnbnzmI

Yeah, GoPro released have released some downright bad cameras. The Hero 3+ was always a challenge. Was it going to freeze at the critical moment? Exciting! Came right around Hero 7. I think that was a big leap. Have a Hero 11 now and it does everything I could reasonably want it to do. Can't see myself upgrading for a very long time. Ridiculously high resolutions and frame rates mean nothing to most users.

Hi @Carbine. What editing software do you use or recommend with the DJI Action 4?

Originally Posted by Allizdog

Hi @Carbine. What editing software do you use or recommend with the DJI Action 4?

not much help but i use adobe premier pro, there are some pretty simple and good editing applications but finding one that's reasonable or free is near impossible

here's a start for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PB4MH2bGy4

Windows Movie Maker on PC, iMovie on Mac.

I'm editing with DaVinci Resolve 19 the free version, I did try with Shotcut which is cross platform and free but it wouldn't render all the videos properly. I use Gimp which is basically free cross platform image editing think Photoshop but free and as fully featured for image manipulation and making thumbnails.

One channel

Second channel

Virtually all shot on the Action4