Salmon Fishing Video September 2011

In mid september a few friends and I headed out east in search of some salmon. We found a massive pool of coho and caught several big fish.

This was mostly filmed on a GoPro Hero HD with a chesty mount, the underwater shots are from my iPhone in a RainBallet case from The Joy Factory, the stills and a few other videos were shot on my Canon Elph 780IS.

Audio track is Rusko – Hold On

GoPro Hero HD Footage from Toronto Islands 2011

I finally had the chance to sit down and play with some of my GoPro Hero HD footage, it was also the first time I took Final Cut Pro X for a spin. While many people have complained about the downsides of the new Final Cut, and the bizarre iMovie like interface that throws all your years of NLE (non-linear editing) out the window for a new “magnetic timeline”. I found that FCPX did a fantastic job of editing the 1080p source footage. In fact I edited and exported this video in the time it would have taken Final Cut Pro 7 to render it for playback!

There’s no fancy editing techniques in this video, I simply chopped out the boring stuff and used a built-in transition in between each of the clips. Feel free to crank it up to 1080p and fullscreen it for full effect.

GoPro Hero HD – First Impressions

The GoPro Hero HD has pretty much become the de-facto high definition point-of-view (POV) camera. Everyone from car enthusiasts, bike riders, fishermen, skiers, snowboarders, police, military, and even the MythBusters use them now! The Hero HD is a no frills powerhouse of a camera. On the actual camera you won’t find much more than a lens, a few buttons, and an LCD screen. The most versatile part of the GoPro is the waterproof shockproof case which can be mounted to just about anything you can think of, but this waterproof case has a small underwater problem.

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The Weekend by Pawel Dwulit – Filmed on a GoPro Hero HD

One of the new underwater capable cameras I’m looking hoping to buy and review this year is the GoPro Hero HD. I’ve been following this camera for a while now and I’m always on the lookout for cool videos, and it just so happens that Pawel Dwulit shot and edited an amazing video of his weekend. He’s even got some great underwater shots of them fishing, but that’s not all!

The video really shows just how versatile this little camera is, I can’t wait to get one.

The Weekend on Vimeo by Pawel Dwulit.

For All The Mothers Out There- Mother Lovin’ Lures

Looks like we missed our mothers day post, but at least we didn’t miss calling our mothers to tell them happy mother’s day. Well, I know I did, and since I’m horrible at remembering dates and calling home I’ll just assume Clive surely did…

Funny enough one of Clive’s lures were picked up in a mothers day post about fishing by The Examiner, and it just so happens that this is one of the lures we shot underwater at the Toronto Islands last week! I put together a quick video of the footage, Clive said he liked it, so I hope he doesn’t mind that I posted it.

Behold, The Mother of All Lures going for a swim.

As with our previous videos, the music was provided by the Total Camble Experience.

I kind of wish I had the camera set to macro mode, the Sanyo’s auto-focus really likes to focus on the water surface for some reason. Anyway, expect a full review of the Sanyo WH1 soon as Clive and I both may be trading them in to purchase a GoPro Hero.

Just check out some of these epic GoPro HD videos and tell me you dont want to see some furious helmet cam fishing!