It's not a bad little camera - 1080p is fine for web stuff but blow up the image and you'll see it's not really resolving a lot of lines. A good B camera and the killer feature is the super wide angle lens when shooting the inside of a vehicle.

I am using one with a Arduino as a car dash cam via the data port, nice feature as you can control some if its feature via a dock connector like plug. Still will not do recycle recording.

I've used it to record long form events such as a 4 hour class a buddy was doing, great B-camera, audio with the provided enclose is unusable / very muffled.

What camera would you recommend then ?

@Rambo I am thinking of using HD Hero2 to film gymnasts in an indoors settings. I updated to the latest firmware. Am I automatically setup with Protune ? The flat color profile and 35 mbps bitrate ? I changed the metering to spot. Is there any other way to increase the shutter speed ? My setup involved a completely dark room with light in the centre, where the gymnasts will do their tricks.

I was even thinking of adding lights at the edge of the POV - pointing straight into the camera to force the shutter to go up to a higher value. With a flat color profile, I hope there will be enough details in the shadows once its converted to Cineform, even with the additional underexposure. Later on I will use Motion Optical or Twixtor to slow mo the video.

I know you can use a mask when using Warp Stabilizer so I bet you can do it with the jello remover too. There is a good tutorial on the WS on the adobe site I believe that shows you how.

I tested the jello remover in AE for a magazine (DP, Munich), and now that I'm out of NDA I can say it does a great job on pans and handheld, even an iPhone shot can get fixed pretty well.

But, like all others, it can't handle moving objects very well. Once a large object comes in, dominating the frame, it'll focus on that and the background tilts again. When the object leaves the frame, it moves it's attention to the background again. This is with the simple mode.

The advanced mode, which seems to work with local vectors, is doing a bit better on large areas, but produces local artifacts similar to Flow Motion.

So, no simple cure for RS, I'm afraid.

jello remover on AE

link (tutorial) ?

just ordered one for a project at work, then learned this news tonight.. all I can say is awesome news !

I love this. The Hero2 is already an amazing pocket rocket of a camera. This makes it much more usable for intercutting with GH2 footage.

Nice, clean and gradable GoPro footages ... I definitely have to use one on some projects :D

@Rambo Fab - didn't think it was yours but it's an inspired idea. GoPro seem very clued-up about their marketing too and the videos are great fun to watch - especially people doing things I'd never have dared to do even when younger!

@Rambo Thanks for posting the YouTube link. That shot at 0.37 is amazing - where you have speeded-up clouds and people together with the slowed-down snowboard. What a fab effect!

One thing which surprised me a lot when I first tried out the gopro was the amount of jello / rolling shutter.. Surprised me in the sense that it is supposed to be an action camera. I wonder when they will introduce global shutter on these?

Good news.

How soon we'll see 12bit RAW?