Fro Diesel
creative control
- Location
- Kzoo
they are fun for a few weeks when it snows and people are around for the holidays, Not much fun after that. Terrible investment of your time too.
GoPro HD
- Thread starter zeski25
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they are fun for a few weeks when it snows and people are around for the holidays, Not much fun after that. Terrible investment of your time too.
BombThreat
'Diggity
- Location
- Johnstown, NY
maybe, i know the GoPro manual says they recommend using at least a class 4 SDHC card and a good name brand.
- Location
- Palm Beach, Fl
Watched it on my bros new computer. Vid looked great and only glitched once. Thinking its my laptop for some reason. Hopefuly i get my 32g card before daytona.
D95turbo
James Tindle
- Location
- Panama City Beach, FL
Dude I still have the old go pro..I need to upgrade
I got the gopro hd for christmas too. I finally mounted mine up like aircraftsalz did, I wet set the 3m mount into west marine g/flex thickened epoxy on my helmet. The g/flex is disigned to aggressively bond dissimiliar materials and then flex to avoid failure during use.
I finally used mine this weekend and got some great surf footage, but I don't have any idea how to grab a clip and post it. Can anyone suggest free editing software or do I need to buy? Any good sites to walk a newbie/semi computer literate fool through the process?
I finally used mine this weekend and got some great surf footage, but I don't have any idea how to grab a clip and post it. Can anyone suggest free editing software or do I need to buy? Any good sites to walk a newbie/semi computer literate fool through the process?
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yamaslut
kill it
- Location
- Daytona Beach, Florida
Windows Movie Maker is as simple as it gets
kraqus
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- Location
- Great State of Texas
- Location
- Palm Beach, Fl
movie maker is stupid easy!
Dustin Mustangs
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- Location
- Holland, MI
They don't include it anymore as of Windows 7. I always had stability issues with it even in SD and I can only image HD would be worse. Maybe it was just my pc tho.
Also, if anyone is wondering, Premier Pro will not take the footage from these w/o jumping through a bunch of hoops with it first (even tho they claim it supports mp4). Sony Vegas does a nice job with them however.
Also, if anyone is wondering, Premier Pro will not take the footage from these w/o jumping through a bunch of hoops with it first (even tho they claim it supports mp4). Sony Vegas does a nice job with them however.
Hey all, I have had a real hard time finding a lot of decent info on editing the HD GoPro format for some of us Windows users, it seems most of it is geared towards Mac.
Additionally, I am on a budget, and I can't afford $500 for video editing software, but I still want my video to look good and flashy like the big dollar programs.
For $100 (or less), you can have everything you need to edit HD video at least at 720p at 60 FPS on your Wal-Mart bought E-Machines running Vista like me! LOL I haven't yet tried this with 1080p, but I am sure the results would be similar.
It should be noted I am running an EMachines $340 system, which is running a 1.6G Celeron, 1 gig of RAM, Vista SP2. Not a cutting edge combo, but about average for a 2 year old system.
The raw GPHD files play pretty choppy on my system, but not so bad I can't watch them. My main goal is sharing, so I don't care if I can watch them on the PC all that well.
I started off upgrading Quick Time7 to PRO for $30. I use this editor because it is the simplest way to trim and clip the files and save them without any loss to original image quality. I'll go through all the footage I have taken for the day, then trim out the unnecessary parts and save them in a folder in chronological order. No need to use the lousy trimming tool QT7 Pro uses. I think you can even get this for free off some sites on the web. Or even on Limewire.
As soon as all the videos are saved, I use PROSHOW GOLD. http://www.photodex.com/store/products/proshow/gold. I selected this program because it isn't just good for video, but it also works best for slideshows and has a verrry cool Facebook and Youtube uploader that allows you to easily export to these and more with one click. Talk about EASY! You just log in to your account via Proshow, and select the output format and quality and it renders and uploads it for you.
The only downfall, is the video trimmer on ProShow is poor and not user-friendly (actually, I think it's non-existent), hence that is why I have QT7 Pro and also use an ancient Roxio program for AVI and MPEG files if I want to use those from my standard def GoPro.
ProShow has excellent transitions, music and audio editing, and great slide and video effects you can work in to the show. Sure, it isn't like a $500 program, but what do you want for $70?
Here are the end results on Youtube:
Just a quick sample video, but at least it gives you an idea of what this combo can do. And it doesn't take a lot of time to edit this stuff either. I cranked out the sample video in about 3 minutes, not counting upload times.
Like I said, this is mainly intended for those of you who have recently bought a GoPro HD and have been having a bear of a time finding good editing programs to use. Also for you guys with weak computers like mine and can't afford to shell out a load of cash for software that works. I have seen some people recommend free programs online like AnyVideo Converter, which is an outstanding piece of freeware, but these programs destroy the quality of the final product! Especially because you're working with HD.
Hope that helps, and if anyone else has some advice, other good programs or tweaks, feel free to post 'em up!
Additionally, I am on a budget, and I can't afford $500 for video editing software, but I still want my video to look good and flashy like the big dollar programs.
For $100 (or less), you can have everything you need to edit HD video at least at 720p at 60 FPS on your Wal-Mart bought E-Machines running Vista like me! LOL I haven't yet tried this with 1080p, but I am sure the results would be similar.
It should be noted I am running an EMachines $340 system, which is running a 1.6G Celeron, 1 gig of RAM, Vista SP2. Not a cutting edge combo, but about average for a 2 year old system.
The raw GPHD files play pretty choppy on my system, but not so bad I can't watch them. My main goal is sharing, so I don't care if I can watch them on the PC all that well.
I started off upgrading Quick Time7 to PRO for $30. I use this editor because it is the simplest way to trim and clip the files and save them without any loss to original image quality. I'll go through all the footage I have taken for the day, then trim out the unnecessary parts and save them in a folder in chronological order. No need to use the lousy trimming tool QT7 Pro uses. I think you can even get this for free off some sites on the web. Or even on Limewire.
As soon as all the videos are saved, I use PROSHOW GOLD. http://www.photodex.com/store/products/proshow/gold. I selected this program because it isn't just good for video, but it also works best for slideshows and has a verrry cool Facebook and Youtube uploader that allows you to easily export to these and more with one click. Talk about EASY! You just log in to your account via Proshow, and select the output format and quality and it renders and uploads it for you.
The only downfall, is the video trimmer on ProShow is poor and not user-friendly (actually, I think it's non-existent), hence that is why I have QT7 Pro and also use an ancient Roxio program for AVI and MPEG files if I want to use those from my standard def GoPro.
ProShow has excellent transitions, music and audio editing, and great slide and video effects you can work in to the show. Sure, it isn't like a $500 program, but what do you want for $70?
Here are the end results on Youtube:
Like I said, this is mainly intended for those of you who have recently bought a GoPro HD and have been having a bear of a time finding good editing programs to use. Also for you guys with weak computers like mine and can't afford to shell out a load of cash for software that works. I have seen some people recommend free programs online like AnyVideo Converter, which is an outstanding piece of freeware, but these programs destroy the quality of the final product! Especially because you're working with HD.
Hope that helps, and if anyone else has some advice, other good programs or tweaks, feel free to post 'em up!
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