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Comment by Godel_unicode | Hacker News Reader

Making appealing video requires thought, knowledge of lighting and how cameras work, and creativity. "Just strap on a camera and go" is definitely not the way to do it, people make amazing videos with mediocre skill in the thing they're doing.

It's like any other complex tool, garbage in garbage out.

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My best clip [0] is fastening the GoPro to a clothes hanger where I removed the middle pin, and added some cardboard on one side to make it not wobble. Then some fishing line and spinning it around my head while skiing. At 0:09 the shadow of the contraption can be seen.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXlwJYt0mg

That is so cool! Looks like it was filmed on a bullet time rig. Well done!

That shot is really good. Do you have a photo of the contraption?

No, but some googling I found something looking very similar [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV1qTigUkR8

I think it depends on what you are doing. If you are doing something intense enough, it works.

Check out on the roofs, the guys who break into sky scraper construction sites and scale the buildings. Go Pros work perfectly for their use case:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U

I think a 5 minutes clip of a climb that obviously took several hours proves GP's point. No one would watch raw garbage captured by their GoPros, you need heavy editing and a catchy soundtrack.

If daft punk had been staying in the chalet with us and offered to put their next unreleased album up next to our snowboard footage, I still don’t think anyone would have stayed to watch it.

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