How film a video with Dji Osmo Action 3

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Table of content
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Video mode (Standard VS HDR)
6:13 - Exposure settings
9:02 - White Balance
9:48 - 8 bit vs 10 bit
10:19 - Field of View (FOV)
12:34 - Stabilisation
16:24 - Resolution
18:06 - Frame rate
21:29 - Slow Motion
22:44 - Loop Mode
24:34 - Ending
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[@maheshp2050]

Deep tutorial almost. It was grt

[@igorwalkoff8863]

Brilliant! Thanks for such a detailed guide with examples 👍

[@chiejose9516]

Your video is very helpful for beginners like me. I like the pace on how you speak...gives me time to grasp all the ideas you are talking about 👌

[@BikingHikingRadio]

You have no idea how helpful your video was to me. I'm in my 60s and just got my first action camera, the DJI Osmo Action 3 two weeks ago. I've been having a lot of trouble getting things figured out. Now that I have a better understanding of things, I'll be using 30 FPS only. I now see no need to record in 4K vs 2.7K. I'll probably use UHD for brighter days and HD for others. Now to get out and experiment a bit more. i've watched many videos about this camera and yours is the first one to really go step by step and easily understood. I use Rock Steady + when I'm recording and seems like if I am turning the camera from left to right or right to left it gets blurry. Is there a way to stop that from happening? Looking forward to watching other videos and I just subscribed. Thanks very much!

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thank you very much I really apreciate! About the blurry, it can happen in dark environment as the exposition is longer, the stabilisation is harder to do. Thank you again for your comment! :)

[@BikingHikingRadio]

@@HowToPM You're very welcome. I've watched a few others as well since this comment. I did a video today of my daughter's half marathon and the video quality was great. Thanks!

[@oblukanetv5574]

​@@BikingHikingRadio so if it's a sunny day you record in 4K, and if it's cloudy you record in 2.7k?

[@agitkanas]

1. you made the best video regarding the settings. 2. I come from Germany and don't speak English very well, but I understood everything you said because you spoke clearly and at a good speed. 3. You also showed examples of everything you said, which made a lot of things even more understandable. I will follow you now and hope that you also give tips on how best to make films with the iPhone 15 pro and which settings I can use to edit the videos from the iPhone and DJI Osmo 3 together

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thank you so much for that comment. It really did put a big smile on my face. It's funny as english is not my mother language neither. I'm French Canadian. Unfortunately I don't have any video about how to film with iPhone. I'm not a big user of phone camera. Maybe one day. Vielen Dank und guten Tag! :)

[@kan-zee]

Well produced Instructional video..thank you for all your time and work in this production

[@Supercarlsunday]

I've just bought one of these to up my content game so this has been a very helpful video. Thank you!

[@simonsmith2969]

Very good, thanks. Watched twice now.

[@buildingsheriff]

Great video. So helpful and entertaining! Thanks.

[@qwertyuiopasdfgh5434]

Tq so much!!! Now i know the function of the loop mood.

[@fabienpics]

THANK YOU, VERY GOOD INFO

[@RobertMacCready]

That was good. Long time GoPro user and yesterday I ordered a DJI Osmo Action 3. Already have the DJI wireless mike so I'm looking forward to a new camera. Had way too many freeze-ups and no starts with the GoPro. Your video was helpful!!

[@AlphaOneDroneOps]

THANKS for the walk-thru demonstration of this action cam - very informative! I just received mine today - time to rock-n-roll!

[@HowToPM]

Glad it was helpful! Enjoy!

[@waltervandeneynde5947]

Just a slight correction. In the early days of film they noticed that at least 24 fps where needed to achieve a fluent movement. When colour TV came into use a 625 lines frame covered the screen with an interlace of 1/25 seconds (25 fps). That frequency could easily be derived from the 50hz frequency of the local current in Europe. A similar system was used in America where the AC was 60Hz, thus 30 fps.

[@daviddrew7624]

Also 120 fps can be used in a 24fps timeline if slowed down by 80% but that was a great indepth video 👌

[@ExplorerJust]

Brilliant tutorial - thank you! Really easy to follow and you explained away quite a few of my questions!

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thanks! I'm gald it was helpfull! :)

[@targher123]

Tomorrow I will have the Osmo Action 3 delivered. Love the watch,(have the same but without the titanium band) love the room design, love the hometrainer (mine stays near the couch too) Awesome content! Greetings from Romania!

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thank you very much! Enjoy your new Osmo Action 3Ù Cheers from Canada! 😉

[@roy.v]

extremely helpful

[@billquailes7882]

Thank you very much for this video, it has been most helpful. I have watched several times and learn something each time.

[@HowToPM]

AHah!! Thank you for your comment I'm glad it helped!

[@gilbertnathan8595]

Thank you for your information, i love it

[@HowToPM]

Ahah thanks I'm glad it was helpful! :)

[@busabobsgarage9876]

Nicely done, with a touch of personality, and great info. I am a true beginner with this camera and this is extremely helpful. Thanks!

[@HowToPM]

Glad it was helpful! :) Thank you! :)

[@Nomadprakash]

Thanks fron india 🇮🇳

[@Grafwichlinghaus]

Thanks for that video. Its great! I like that easy and quiet way you discribe. And the way you talk is for me, so I can as a German follow you without any problems. 👏

[@HowToPM]

Ahah thank you I'm glad you enjoyed. It's great that a German can understand a French Canadian thrue english. Ich wünsche ihnen einen wunderbaren Tag

[@ravindraseneviratne8850]

Excellent presantation 👌

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thanks! :)

[@muhammadshakir3613]

You nailed it bro. As a beginner i know what have i just learned from this video. Thanks buddy for such wonderful video.

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thanks I'm glad it was helpfull! 🙂

[@AdolfoAspri]

Excellent video tutorial with examples, I would like to see some landscape video shots to compare with other cameras. Thank you very much Adolf from Argentina

[@valenzuelaeph]

amazing explanation

[@HowToPM]

Ahah!! Thank you I'm glad you enjoyed!! :)

[@brandenburgBBQ]

Hi, I come from Germany and I'm looking for my first action cam. My english is Level B but your video was very easy to understand and your way to commenting was very entertainable. I thank you for that and I will look for more video of yours. 😊

[@HowToPM]

Danke! 😉

[@Bike-About]

Great video ... Best I have seen on the subject to date ... Just wish you had finished with your recommended settings for a newbie, as a starting point ... BTW should my two buttons be hard to depress ?

[@HowToPM]

They are a bit hard yes, but not very hard. I don't speak about settings as it may vary for every need. Personally I film in 4K 30FPS and leave everything auto most of the time.

[@grahamjones7070]

Really liked your video. I've just purchased the action 3 and I am really new to this. All the settings seems really complicated at the moment. I'm going on vacation to Switzerland soon and want the best images and video content. Could you advise me on what settings I should use or should I just use the standard and auto settings. I don't want to keep having to reset the settings whenever I get the camera out. Also what is the best setting to have for slow motion? and can I obtain slow motion in editing in the mimo app?

[@HowToPM]

Thanks! Personally I film everything in 30fps 2.7k in dewarp mode. For the reste it's pretty much all the time on auto. Take a look at this video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqPWiIiHrsqLhqM

[@Spectre.007]

The one issue I found in Osmo Action 3 is that when you create Custom-made presets, you cant set it to be applied under Snapshot settings so that when camera is OFF, your Custom made preset will be used when you press the Shutter button. You can only utilize Custom made presets under QuickSwitch when the camera is ON. The parameters being used in Video Snapshot (when the camera is OFF) is the last parameters you manually set under Video mode.

[@MT_20_24]

Good video 👍 just got the dji osmo action 4 , what settings do you recommend for clear 4k footage for street vlogging ?

[@HowToPM]

Thanks. I personally une mine in full auto mode, mostly on video mode. No need to something very specific. ;)

[@MT_20_24]

@@HowToPMthank you

[@Ad-ji1bm]

Very helpful vlog ✌ but.... your Red Zippo steals the show 😂 Can we please have another vlog on settings recommended for motovloggers who uses osmo action 3.. specially for newbies like me..

[@HowToPM]

Ahah thanks! About the settings nothing very special. Enable stabilisation, maybe use something wide and choose a frame rate and stick to it. 😉

[@citywalkwithme]

❤❤❤

[@mycarsjp]

❤❤❤❤

[@ItsAaronRose]

Mocking "the film look", is what made me press the like button 😂

[@HowToPM]

😂

[@larkinsen]

Excellent explanation especially regarding the freaking loop function.If you record a MTB trip, loop function must be set to off.Otherwise you get only the last 5 or 20 minutes of the trip and it's a disaster if you're a youtuber.I always thought that loop means recording an cutting the clips on that amount of time untill the sd card gets full and only then it delets the first recordings.But now with the latest firmware I set the loop recording to 5 minutes i tested 15 minutes of recording and surprisingly I got all the 5 minutes clips that I recorded in the proper order.Of course my memory card wasn't full. So it didn't delete them. That's weird & cool at the same time..

[@HowToPM]

It's basically made so you can recond continuously until something happen, then you hit record and you got your shot without have so much file to delete.

[@firstlast-pt5pp]

it's a session loop not a continuous loop like a dashcam. It does not erase any files before the next loop session. Eventually, the sd card will be full.

[@Sajid-Rahman]

Bro can you help me Please? Which Resolution and frame rate shold i use? For Facebook moto blog? ❤

[@HowToPM]

I would go 30FPS and 1080P. Facebook compress your image so much anyway.

[@reynanteariola_vlogs]

why is it when I upload my OA3 to fb, tiktok and YT, it gets blurry and the videos still have quality when uploaded

[@HowToPM]

Most social media plateform.... Especially Facebook doe compress the video. KZbin do it too but way less.

[@MultiKtm300]

My camera is making all of my videos in 5min 26 second clips. It appears this is limiting to the videos to 4 gigs maximum. This requires editing and putting the videos back together or combing them back together. Is there a way to avoid this or what am I doing wrong?

[@HowToPM]

Nope. That's the way it is. And it's also a good thing for a sport camera. The thing is that for any camera, as long as you don't finish the video, if something happen to the camera that make it bug, the whole video file is ruined. As a osmo action got high chance of receiving a shock, the worst you can lose is the last 5:26 minutes as the video close every 5:26. If you just want one file without passing by a video editing software, QuickTime can merge them toguether very quickly.

[@oblukanetv5574]

Hello. Sometimes when I walk with the camera and take a step, the picture is shaky. Why? And sometimes everything is fine and even when I run the image is nicely stabilized. Why? I record in 4k 60 fps RS. Whitebalance 5600k, other settings on auto. EIS off. 30 fps i laggy for me 😊

[@HowToPM]

Is it possible that when the image is not at is best, you are in a darker environement?

[@bac4728]

Hi! Is there a hack to be able to shoot video with an ND filter and still be able to use Rocksteady?

[@HowToPM]

I don't see why the ND filter would disable Rocksteady.

[@bac4728]

@@HowToPM I saw that when you use an ND filter with rocksteady it looks very choppy. To create more stability I heard people were shooting at shutter speeds of 1/100 and 1/200. Confirming with your expertise.

[@ece_matlab]

mr. I have osmo 3 , and I don't have the mode hdr in my camera !!

[@HowToPM]

It's present since the begining but you could try a firmware update.

[@ece_matlab]

@@HowToPM yeah I did, so how can I activate HDR again

[@Vespatern]

Harici mikrofon olarak ne almalıyım, yanıt için teşekkürler

[@harrymiram5562]

Personally, have got XLNT results w/Deity D4 Duo & Movo DoubleMic. Both are switchable btwn F, R & F/R

[@ronangsr]

i actually did see the difference with 4k v 2.7k, im using a lapto with 4k screen, there is far less shimmering on the windows of the church, so yes for me i do see a difference

[@HowToPM]

Yes you are right there is a slight difference. But so slight that if you don't put it side by side it may be hard to see the difference. And you also loose in stabilisation when using 4k.

[@firstlast-pt5pp]

shimmering because of HDR processing

[@theancientvoice9272]

Isn't the image on the camera's screen darker because your screen brightness is too low ? As a rule of thumb I'd keep it at 100% brightness. Most people fall for it on many cameras

[@HowToPM]

Nope. I leave it a 100%. A lot of camera sadely do this.

[@SnoopyDoofie]

17:28 Your comparison between 2.7k and 4k was wrong. Sure, you can't see the difference because you are showing the 4k video on a device that is displaying at a much lower resolution. When you do that, the video player software is going to scale the 4k down to whatever the device's resolution is - so you're not going to see any difference. Where you will see the difference is when you play a 2.7k and 4k on a 4k device like a large flat screen 4k display. The 2.7k will show up more grainy because the lower resolution has to be scaled up. The reason why the US has 30 frames per second and the EU has 25 has to do with the history of electricity and TV. The US standardized their electricity on 60 Hz over a hundred years ago while european countries chose 50 Hz. This had to do with how electricity was generated. With the introduction of television, the scan (or sync) rate for a single image was synchronized with the hydro frequency. But displaying 60 or 50 frames on a TV screen was a huge bandwidth, so they simply halved the frequencies, giving your 30 and 25 Hz. As digital video transmissions took over in the 2000s, these frequencies were becoming less important and today you really don't need them when recording video for digital transmission because all digital TVs and computers display videos at whatever their frames per second is. Where is might still be useful is in some third world countries where analog TV is still being used. But even there, the recorded video will still get converted over to the frame rate used in that country - but you are hardly going to notice the difference. The aspect ration of a video is the width of the video divided by the height. This is unitless. You can measure the width and height in pixels, inches, or whatever. You just divide the width by the height to get the aspect ratio. A 4:3 ratio equals 1.333 while a 16:9 equals 1.778. Almost no one today uses 4:3 because that was the size used for older generation TVs. 16:9 may not be optimal for all devices, but it optically suitable for most devices that people use to view a video without too much being trimmed around the edges when the screen doesn't support 16:9. The difference between 8 and 10 bit colorization may not sound like much, but it is huge. Each color is made up of 3 colors: red, green and blue. When you use 8 bits, each color can have 2^8 variations - equal to 256. With the 3 colors, that amounts to 256 ^ 3 (about 16 million colors). With 10 bit, each color can have 1024 variations resulting in 1024 ^ 3 (about 1 bilion colors). While the humans can only see about a million colors, which would make it sound like 8 bit colors is good enough, it's not about the number of colors but which of those colors closely represent what most people see in reality. Using a 10 bit color scheme like D-Cinelike, you are going to get closer to true cinematic colors. Personally I find the 10 bit colors much nicer than the 8 bit colors. But even without 10 bits, you can can use your video software to adjust the colors, although this can be more work.

[@insighteins1317]

1080P is NOT over! There is people that don´t need 4K.

[@HowToPM]

I believe I said for me. 1080 is all right if it satisfy you.

[@SnoopyDoofie]

The vast majority of KZbin videos are 1080 and when viewed on most laptops, they look perfectly fine, even in full screen mode. So yeah, you're right, 1080 is NOT over.

[@buhayniteacher5547]

yeah 4k dont work mostly in computers or smartphone, unless you have a powerful com at smart phone

[@romelhyn]

not de-WRAP its de-WARP