Hey Natalie! Thank you! If someday you decide to start a YT channel, pls feel free to contact me for some advice. I will be glad to help.

You can still upload horizontal vids to tictoc.

But no longer than 30 mins long.

I was just looking at Hero11 black, probably buy it tomorrow.

"GoPro Hero 11 Black Has An 8:7 Image Sensor That Lets You Shoot Vertical And Horizontal Videos All At Once"

I made 2 videos with a simple JVC camcorder when started travelling 12 years ago. I see they have 700 views :)

youtube added tiktok style videos a while back look in trending

It makes more sense to shoot in Horizontal then use that for youtube, then if you want footage for such as tick toc then crop it and edit that way.

I suggest you also order the media pack too as it makes a HUGE difference to the sound.

Opt for a min of a 256gb card. That should give you about 2 hours recording at 4k at 60 fps. You can record higher than 4k, but if it is just for youtube, I would suggest staying at 4k.

Opt too for the better battery, as it will give you about an hour recording.

Personally for ease, carry a battery pack and plug it in, if you use the battery up. Yes you can swap batteries, but this is a bit of a pain, and an external battery is just easer.

While the gopro is great at stabilising, it is bigger than you think. My gopro 7 is smaller and I think lighter than my new one. Now this means if you have it on such as a body belt, the thing can bounce.

I also find low light they struggle.

Mine is the model below 11. It may be 10 or 9, I forget, but basically it is the same. But I would stick to only recording Horizontal only, as I presume if you are shooting two lots of vid, it will make the camera work even harder. And they do get hot. So you may risk your gopro shutting down to cool if your shooting for a long time. Not to mention the card will fill faster.

Yes, but these are max 60 seconds.

They are ideal for taking up to a min from your main vid and make it as a short for a promo (use your app to do this).

I noticed too that it looks like they are adding a podcast option too. So I presume they will let you upload just sound files.

Great tip, was also looking at creator version. But the media pack (microphone+light) + gimbal looks better. The extra tools cost the same as the whole camera.

Maybe just in time to shoot some whales here also and practice my skills.

Cool, now please give me a top5 of the best places to visit thx 😬 ?

the license plate is LOL :1orglaugh

Hello. Sure thing. These are by far the best imho:

1) Varanasi, India
2) Shanghai, China
3) Cairo, Egypt
4) Havana, Cuba
5) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6) Plus: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Istanbul, Mexico City

I won't recommend these places to go with your family. It's mostly to explore and enjoy food, culture, things like that.

Most of those places sounds like you could get robbed there easily :)

I have grown up poor and in Latin America so, almost any region in the world (except Africa) looks like Disney to me. But probably you don't have any problem in Cuba, India or China. Not sure about Egypt and about Mexico City: low profile and be carefour, there are 'no go' zones. Everything else is pretty safe and modern.

Just unpacking my Gopro Hero11 Creator Edition :)

Will be in some nice places to test next months. Vallarta, Yelapa, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Amsterdam, Cyprus, Brazil or Thailand and some more places.

I walked in Mexico City on that famous kilometers long Tepito market. Would be great video. Ecxcept they robed me at gunpoint at the last part. Only had 25 usd with me and no cards, jewelry or phone.

The cities in India must be great. I visited Varkala, Kochi and Goa. But than got stuck 9 months in Arambol cause of corona. So i must return to see some cities.

I have the media mod.

You can buy gopro light alternatives that are just as good (I have one, but not needed to use it yet). While you can plug a mic in, if you are walking around it may be a pain. While it will probably give you a better sound, it will make the camera more notable. I have the rode mic and with the dead cat on, you will have a huge thing that may also bounce in front of the lens. And while you could use it with no dead cat, you will probably get wind sound.

I find the mic built into the media mod fine with the cover. Even in wind it is fine.

BUT...

The problem with the media mod and having the camera attached to something, is you use the flappy things under the go pro. So if you want to swap the battery or take the sd card out. You have to unscrew the go pro from whatever it is attached to then pull it out of the media mod. It is a silly design, as it would have made more sense for thew media mod to have its own flappy things to connect to things such as a stand.It is such a silly design.

I have to say I love the gopro.

One thing though is I have a few 4k cheap gopro alternatives, and they do give great image. Not as good as a gopro, but for such as underwater they are ideal (and do not get as hot and much lighter and smaller).

Your all a bit daft.

Most of you are in the USA with stunning places to film.

When I was a kid one of my favorite things I have ever seen (I cannot find it on youtube) was a USA nature show. It was one of those 60's or 70's types, where the presenter would call animals critters. The best one that I loved (I hope to see it again before I die), as one following a cougar and her cubs. To this day I have no idea how they filmed it without being seen. But if I was in the USA that is all would film.

Then you have your bears. I would be filming them all happy and eating picknicks and having fun with the forest ranger.

Or those Buffalo.

You have all that, and more.

I think you will be pleased with it.

But if you edit the footage via the sd card, you are going to be saying some rude words when you realise to take it out you have to dismantle everything.

You probably will never use the light, but it is handy to have.

As I say the built in mic seems fine, but use the cover outside. I leave it on all the time. But be carful as it it possible to flick it off.

I have the front screen turned off so people do not notice when you are filming.

If you have not got the sc card yet, before you order check on gopro's site as not all sd cards work. Your best to stick to the ones they advise.

Also go on ebay and get yourself a box of accessories. For about £15 you get every thing you can imagine to connect your gopro to,m plus a nice case. They are just as good as the official gopro stuff.

suggestions welcome, here in thailand starting filming on motorbike with DJI osmo pocket 1 mounted on back of my phone on top of the clutch lever. this is raw video straight off the sd:



what would you do differently if anything?

street food... not sure if they have the good stuff. asian brazil... you could get smashed on the fuckin road. stay up dogg
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+food+thailand

If I was you, I would get an old camper van and go about doing vids with it.

You have a bit of a hippy/serf dude vibe.

People love retro and I bet you would get more views.

Even better if you find a female partner who goes about in a bikini.

I would be in front of the camera too.

Most people suck at being in front but you seem to have a nice personality. Just be a bit hippy and fun. If you can, joke about a bit.

If you plan on doing motobike footage you could add a mic to record yourself talking as you ride, or record it later and add it to the footage.

* You're

I am dyslexic, so I do not care.

However if correcting my spelling helps boost your confidence or/and self-esteem, then feel free.

This is quite interesting. You opened your channel in 2018, and it exploded recently in 2023 after five years. Do you know what caused it to explode? Did an online newspaper or media publish your videos of Cuba?

https://i.imgur.com/YY1BclD.png

If you don't mind me asking or anyone else here in the thread who does the same kind of videos, how long did it take for your channel to be monetized? Did it take one full year or two? According to the stats in the first year of posting a lot of videos, you only had 200 subscribers. It seems that things really started to take off in the second or third year. During those first two years, were you not concerned with making any money? What happened in the second or third year that allowed you to go from 200 subs to 20,000?

Those stats are pretty accurate. I could personally open a new YouTube channel, grab a 4K camera with a stabilizer, and walk to do these videos, even broadcasting live, and I would have zero visitors for a long time because YouTube doesn't give new channels much relevance. I could walk for one full year, doing one live broadcast every week, and YouTube wouldn't send me a single visitor. With luck, I could maybe get 500 subs after one year of hard work plus time and money invested, and maybe I would not even hit the threshold to enable monetization. Isn't it ridiculous? Even with the best content possible, with the best thumbnails and titles, it's not only about the algorithm.

YouTube wants us to work for free for years before they give us anything back. Of course, for some people, this is not a job; it's a side hobby, and the money rewards are just like a gift they are not expecting at all. But if someone is looking to do this as a job and earn money from day one, it can be extremely frustrating.

Why #1 for Varanasi?

Put a hot lady in front and sit behind filming over her shoulders. If she has big bouncing boobies it could be great material
Or let a hot lady ride in front in bikini or sit in the bath bus you are following. And not those old perverts :)
Wait till the sun shines.

I don't like being on camera, but you are used to it. So do it in some movies.
Many people filming in Pattaya. Mostly perverts :)
Go by bike to Koh Chang or Koh Kut. When it rains you can film many accidents also.
Don't drive on KC when it rains. You will fit in on Rasta Beach or Lonely beach and visit "Little Pattaya" there.
Maybe take the boat to Ko Lan in front of Pattaya.

Put some visits to cannabis stores in the adult part of your channel.

I was looking what attract visitors and i think i visit the gay pride when it is here. And carnaval in Brazil when i am there.

It wasn't a dyslexic error though... I'm partly dyslexic myself and I know the difference.

You fucked up by making an error while insulting other's intelligence and got corrected, so yeah I understand you being a little pissy about it.

It's all good man.

All great ideas thanks much!. I'm on a little sportbike Honda CBR150R with an actual gearbox most thai girls dont know how to operate so a chick cant really sit in front shes gotta be on the pillon tail. they are used to riding scooters, automatic honda clicks or scoopys here. i like the idea of tailing a girl on the baht bus. i dont really mind being on camera but im sure nobody wants to see or hear me, mongers that consume this content wanna see girls and skin mostly. i like the cannabis store idea, they are just pricey and i have a stash already. the gay part of pattaya is pushed into a small corner nobody cares about called dongtan beach (lol the name) in between walking street pier and jomtien beach. i run the entire 13 miles some mornings from jomtien na to the end of pattaya beach, but theres not much action happening early morning anywhere

If i look at Wanna Walk i like the subtitles with information.
Like reading a local travel magazine. Giving a lot of background info.

On a bike it isn't relaxing, it goes fast. And many times not on the nicest location.
A walk on the Pattaya beachroad is much more interesting than passing on a motobike with the noise:)
On the motobike in Pattaya on that street you always must watch what lane you use to avoid being stopped by police.
They got me once. Like a real Dutchman i went to the policestation to pay 250 bath fine instead of a 2000 bath bribe.

I go to the gay pride cause i saw others made videos last years and had good views.
So the topic could attract extra visitors. You could prepare to be on a good location with Songkran.
Or go to the festival of lights in Chiang Mai. Or Koh Phanang Full Moon party, if it is still there.
Railay beach in Krabi also has a reggea vibe for the canabis channel.
But that was already a reggae party place before it was legal, just like on Koh Chang.

Hello. Quick answer: I created the channel (it's just a hobbie and I record when I travel for business). Then COVID came and I was not able to travel. Now I'm traveling again and I have more time to spend with YouTube. One of my very first videos has 5 millions views (Mexico City). It takes time to record, edit and publish each video, it's not that easy as it looks like..

If you ask me to describe India with one word it would be: 'Incredible" -- Everything is weird, strange, fantastic, unique. After India, the rest of the world looks like Disney. Their culture, food, culture, traffic, heat, garbage, smells, faces, pollution, noise and traditions.
Varanasi is the most interesting city in India.

I know it's subjective but Varanasi is the most strange place I ever saw (and I saw many). Everything it's strange and extreme: death it's around you, people goes to that city to die on the floor.

Millions perform religious rituals at the Ganga river. You see open sky cremations, the smell, the food, the colors, the weather. Everything is extreme but I'm totally aware that India it's not for everyone. It's too extreme and you see a lot of pain everywhere there. You need to be ready.

Congrats on your success, I wish you nothing but the best

That ain't the spirit of GFY.com :2 cents: . . .

In the mean time the chinese package also arrived with handy gopro tools.

Tested some beach shots and decided watching lot of videos with tips, transitions, movement, settings first.
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnOnlineVideo is interesting.

Will test more nearby, there are popular videos on youtube made just 100 meter from here. And than the places further away when i am sure i can shoot some usable videos.

Looks like making as cinematic as possible is best to go with, in most cases.

make sure you alert me please. i wanna see it!

sent you some ideas. :thumbsup

Okay, who followed my great tip and went viral?
Ps, i don't take responsibilities for any tps i give, it is at own risk.

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Chinese Tourist’s Obscene Display Enrages Chiang Mai Residents

Residents in Thailand’s northern tourist province of Chiang Mai have urged authorities to ensure that foreign tourists respect local culture. This comes after a video clip went viral on TikTok, showing a Chinese woman undressing herself on the back of a baht bus in the province.
The video clips of a Chinese female visitor undressing half-naked on one of Chiang Mai’s famous red baht buses in the middle of a street have sparked an outcry among many concerned citizens and organizations

The video clip, which appears to show an unidentified Chinese woman making sexy gyrations while wearing a bra top and lowering her slacks to expose her bottom and G-string panties, received millions of views on social media.

Although the woman later deleted the clips after they were heavily criticized, some of the complainants said she should be held accountable for disrespecting the province’s local culture and Thai traditional conservative values.

Wanlop Namwongprom, Vice Chairman of the Chiang Mai Provincial Cultural Council, requested on Wednesday that relevant agencies, such as the Chiang Mai Tourism Authority and the Tourism Authority of Thailand, pursue legal actions or at least follow this woman in order to warn her.

Aside from being obscene and inappropriate, Wanlop said the videos may cause the misconception among foreign visitors that anyone can do whatever they want in Chiang Mai no matter illegal or not.

Many organizations are attempting to identify and locate the woman to give her a warning.

https://thepattayanews.com/2023/06/2...mai-residents/

Nice work dude!!! Keep making content ;)