Vlog Fails, post your tales here....

I must have at least 10 videos that once I started to edit I just decided that its crap and not worth going any further.

Thats before you count all the times there was a camera failure of some sort.

I think the worst one I had was I went to test ride a bike and when I got there the bike had been sold about a hour before and they wouldn't let me ride it.

In my recent vlog I literally lose a camera. It falls off my bike - gone. My helmet cam captured it all. I also accidentally deleted a camera file thinking it was the low res preview duplicate instead. That one really hurt as I liked what I shot. I've recorded at the wrong light settings, bad angles, and low mic levels.

It happens. Tenacity is the strongest trait you'll need once you start making films, vlogs, even home movies. Don't give up. Once you do then it's really a fail.

- Wuf

I've had most of the usual. Camera not switching on, when I thought it did, bad memory cards etc. The worst, for the past 2 years was an editing problem though. I Thought to do a special, over an hour montage, of the Norwegian trip, I did the series on. The idea was to make it more compressed and faster paced, so anyone who would want to see it all at once, could get the best bits in one video. I spent every evening of good 3 weeks, editing. And when I tried to render, it kept crashing. I discovered the project framerate and footage framerate did not match, and it was too much for my PC to handle. Well, I thought, I'll just change the project framerate to match. And that screw up all the editing timeline, unsalvageable. At that point I decided, I would not spend that time again. At least not when the weather is getting good again.
The upside is, I still gained the editing experience, just no results to show for that specific project.

A-Bomb Biker challenged me to show my editing setup. So, since I love to be outside, I scouted out a location. The weather was great. Everything was perfect away from folks and then Murphy's Law stopped by...

Wifi hotspot? NOPE no cellphine signal near the Government facilty despite the tower just 2 miles away.

Well, surely my devices worked perfect. NOPE, one updated the program and decided not to fully open, one is allergic to bright light all of a sudden, and the third was fine.

OK then, well being in the middle of nowhere surely lent itself to a quiet set. OH HELL NOPE, but at least birdwatchers might be able to identify the songs.

So 12 minutes of footage is edited down to about 4 minutes after elimating equipment lag, bad camera angles, and one hell of a 5 way birdfight.

When life gives you lemons...

The video will be going up next week.

I'm facing hero 6 issue getting freeze all of sudden... so, i have to pull out the battery.. but, the footage was corrupt / gone.. try to change another sd card with high transfer rate.. the problem totally gone..

A few weeks ago, but I fired up the camera, started recording, proceeded to go 140kph on the motorway and the wind turned the naked camera off by pushing the power button. Why does GoPros even have the power button on the front anyway?

HippoDrone said:

Aye you need a decent memory card in these cameras!

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The problem was solved.. no more issues.. but for sure mic adapter for hero 6 has a big joke.. you have to switch on the gp first to use that mic adapter instead of using quick capture..

HippoDrone said:

Not on the 6 you don't, are you on the latest firmware? I run the 6 and the 1 touch record works fine. It is the 5 that had the issues with it!

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Yup..latest firmware... for the 1st recording was fine... 2nd & 3rd using quick capture no sound....

Generally all my vlogs are fails.. So..

F4celess said:

A few weeks ago, but I fired up the camera, started recording, proceeded to go 140kph on the motorway and the wind turned the naked camera off by pushing the power button. Why does GoPros even have the power button on the front anyway?

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Was this for real? How can a bit of wind, on so low speed, affect the button?

Theodor said:

Was this for real? How can a bit of wind, on so low speed, affect the button?

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It was a fluke, because it didn't happen again for a while even though I rode even faster at other places. It's a GoPro btw
Might have been the aerodynamics of having the camera facing forwards. Like when I look straight ahead it works fine but when I turn my head the pressure could focus on the button. 140kph winds isn't nothing.

Alternatively the camera is just too old and crashed.

You mean, after the mic fails, the none plugged in mics, the dead batteries, the forgotten to put in a memory card, or a full memory card or even the memory card error, and next to the windnoice, the dead cat failure, the camera angle being weird (i even managed to do a vertical vlog...) and/or camera errors itself?

Not much i guess, i crashed once.
And i stopped recording, when i wanted to start recording >.<

Gonna add "Wipe a memory card with footage you hadn't put on your harddrives yet on accident".
Flipside, the content sucked anyway.

Haven’t been out for 3 weeks because or reasons. Didn’t check a single camera for charge or sd card space.

Guess it’s a surprise when I get home as to what I’ve recorded.