We'll start with 1080p and go all the way up to 5k.
Don't go on just yet; there are some fantastic discoveries along the way.
As a general rule of thumb, I would begin my testing regimen by conducting my tests inside.
If the indoor test was successful, going outside was usually unnecessary; however, if I had failed the indoor test, I would have to do so.
because, as you will see, the circulation of air is the key factor. In this case, the battery lasted for 2:03 minutes at 1080p 30 in the house, and 1:09 at 60 fps.
This isn't a battery life test, and the battery wasn't fully charged; most of the batteries were between 94% and 100%, but they were from the previous year, so I swapped and matched hero9 with the following ten batteries.
Even though it's the same battery, I've been switching between brand-new ones and ones I've had for a year but haven't used much.
As a result of these tests, there were no failures of the overheating and zero issues with overheating. Overheating is the natural cause of death for batteries, and I did time warp, which is all about moving by the way. If you were to place this inside a front dashboard, drive somewhere for two hours, and then check the results, you might obtain different results there.
The 4k tests are not too difficult; there may be some overheating, but not for a considerable amount of time. In the instance of 4k 30 for example, in a room heated to 70 degrees, it reached its temperature limit exactly one hour after the hour mark. Overheating will no longer occur once you have implemented air flow, therefore perform this outdoor test at a frame rate of 120 frames per second for 29 minutes before the battery dies. According to what I've read, the maximum recording time for a GoPro in 4K at 120 frames per second is about 31 minutes.
The greatest resolution we'll discuss inside this is 5.3 k, and we'll be talking about a variety of frame rates. In a variety of situations, the vast majority of which involved a bike and had me going somewhere, there was a mild airflow since I wasn't traveling very quickly. By the way, the maximum speed that this cargo bike I was on was 25 kilometers per hour, which is around 18 miles per hour.
After doing so, I secured one Hero 10 inside of a diving housing and submerged the other Hero 10, after which I attached both of them to a rope and went stand up paddle boarding out toward the lake. In this particular instance, the battery was at summer temperature, so if you will, it is going to act like a giant heatsink and take the hot air inside there and cool it down to lake temperature, which is significantly cooler than what is inside that gopro, and it is going to do this the whole time.
5.3 k at 30 frames per second and 60 frames per second uh in various scenarios mostly involving a bike where I was going somewhere thus there was light airflow it wasn't going very fast by the way 25 kilometers an hour 18 miles per hour I was the max speed on this cargo bike I was on so that was just what I was going at but you can see battery was the cause of death in every single scenario
If you are filming at a resolution of 5k at 60 frames per second, which is the maximum that this camera is capable of doing and the primary reason why you might purchase a camera, it is going to overheat in a stationary situation in approximately twenty minutes. At 5k30, you're going to get to about an hour before it overheats, which isn't actually all that far from the battery duration claim of approximately I don't know, around 70 minutes or so.
I did some testing to see what would happen if I removed the battery door, took the battery out, and plugged it into a power bank. In that case, I did 5k video at 60 frames per second, which is the highest resolution you'd ever need to go. There's no reason to do that inside of a meat locker, but whatever. After 44 minutes, that case battery was the cause of death, and in the refrigerator, the battery was also the cause of death there.
I practically created a hot beach in my bathroom by placing a space heater in there and allowing the temperature to rise to nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Basically, I have a very little bathroom, so in order to make the most of the space, I did the following: On one side, I had a teeny-tiny stroller fan that was only creating a moderate amount of breeze because it was so small that I could stop it with just a touch.
I experimented with two distinct approaches to determine whether or not I could get 5k at 60 frames per second, first with and then without the use of an external air conditioner. The one with the airflow lasted for 36 minutes until the battery cut off, indicating that the issue was not related to the temperature but rather to the battery. The one that lacked airflow continued for around the same amount of time, which is approximately 21 minutes; I do not have reliable data on that.
It reached an all-time high of 101 degrees inside, which is the peak temperature, and it lasted 23 minutes and 31 seconds, which, to tell you the truth, is very weird to me because it was really hot in there and this camera was still working. If you've ever gone to the beach with your phone and tried to record a video that's 23 minutes long, you already know that you can't do it. There aren't very many cameras that are capable of doing that, and if you've done that, you already know that it doesn't work.
As long as there is some airflow, even really darn hot airflow, moving over this thing, you should be fine for the most part. In the middle of the desert, under the hot sun, the answer is probably not, but you probably could shoot at 5k 30 for an infinite amount of time. It is simply not going to be possible at the high resolutions if you are in an environment with no airflow, such as an enclosed room or the dashboard of a car.
I've learned that in order to get the best footage from my Hero 10, I have to set the frame rate to 30 frames per second. It's as simple as that. If I'm going to be filming for longer than 40 minutes, I should definitely shoot in 4K at 30 frames per second rather than 5K at 30 frames per second. If I can complete the shoot in under forty minutes, then I'll just utilize 5k30, and I have no problem with that at all. I showed them the complete mountain of data that I had, at which point they exclaimed, "That's a lot of data!" They also mentioned a lot of things in the emails that they sent to me in response.
The typical length of a GoPro video clip is 70 seconds, which is fine and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, this does not actually fix the problem, which is you know plainly some kind of overheating element of this at higher recording speeds, which was not there in the past. I believe that you could learn something useful by observing what actions other businesses have taken in like circumstances.
Making it abundantly obvious what the effects of various factors are is the method that is most likely to be successful in preventing a camera from overheating. There are also methods by which the corporation can look at the data they have on which functions in the camera truly do contribute the most to overheating in order to set those features down in return for longer recording times. Even a single tap while navigating the menus can have a considerable effect on the camera's temperature
