How To Make Your Gopro Camera Record Continously

GoPro Filming the evidence

So part of the cursory for a recent picture show project was to record continuously for upwards to 5 hours without the possibility of being able to change media or battery and with the photographic camera left unattended for that unabridged fourth dimension.

GoPro Hero 4 Black

OK this is an obvious choice, I could of used a DSLR but in that location would always be the risk that its desirability would make it besides attactive to a thieve or the curious. Besides a DSLR in the hands of a 1st Air conditioning could be better purposed to capture B-roll for the main documentary.

All it took was a tiny bit of additional expenditure and a chip of artistic thinking to come up upwardly with a working solution.

I bought a skeleton instance for the GoPro, information technology cost less than £10 and worked perfectly for the job although the one I bought popped its catch just at the crucial time and almost caused me to miss the get-go of the upshot, in fact I had to filibuster the start until the camera was reinserted and secured.

The skeleton case is identical to the standard example only with cutouts to access the HDMI and USB ports on the right hand side. I needed this then I could adhere a USB power source in club to run the GoPro for the unabridged effect some 5 hours in all.

Ability Supply

The original idea was to use a mains powered USB charger to supply the GoPro, which was fine for the internal filming but suddenly the cursory changed and part of the filming was shifted to an external location in the middle of a field.

This in the end became a blessing as I dropped the idea of mains ability and went directly to a battery option instead. The internal batteries on a GoPro from my feel depending on resolution used can exist equally piddling as 20 minutes and so no fashion would that work for continuously recording 5 hours. For many years now I've used a fill-in portable charger and power supply for iPads and iPhones merely I take found these extremely useful to accept in the photographic camera kit, this one comes with a built in torch also.

Complete solution

The GoPro was fitted with a 64gb carte and settings to maximise recording time, then 720p and narrow field of view. This gave a potential recording fourth dimension of 7 hours of continuous footage. Now why didn't I utilize a time lapse mode and save the worry of bombardment or card running out of power/space? simple the condition were set up past the Guinness World Records and these land continuous recording and any bombardment/media changes have to exist filmed/recorded separately, which of class nosotros couldn't practise as the photographic camera was to be unattended.

The GoPro was mounted on top of a 3m Manfrotto lighting stand using a ball articulation connection, with the USB plugged into the portable power supply that hung from one of the stands locking screws in a small draw string purse. With the stand at its full extension the GoPro was hardly visible and was certainly unobtrusive in it's operation.

The Concluding Video

I've speeded information technology up because who really wants to watch 5 hours of people lining up to register then beingness counted into the field where the World Record attempt was being held. Did we accomplish the World Tape? well information technology's unofficial as I write this but yep we did 🙂

The Total Documentary

This is a work in progress of which this World Record was only a part, the final film will include the activities on the 24-hour interval with interviews with the organisers and the people working hard to eradicate Polio from the Earth.