On 18 June 2012 09:08, Kenneth Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > The Go Pro is a terrific little P O V camera IMO . Bought one early this year > to record my dog sled race. Ran well in 15 degree F weather. > > Can anyone recommend easy to use video editing software for use with HD video? >
PC or Mac? There's a free editor available on the GoPro website for download to GoPro users (although there's no strict check on ownership so I suppose anyone can get it). I can't comment on its usefulness because I haven't installed it yet. There's also a free editor called VideoPad that I have used and does a good job, but whatever you do DON'T INSTALL THE "MIXPAD AUDIO MIXER" that is offered in the software suite when you install. It isn't part of the freeware, but it refuses to uninstall when its trial is over :-( This video was edited with VideoPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVEoHO4x6Q Please don't watch it at the default 360p setting, it'll be rubbish. Click on the cog and choose at least 480p, but 720p and fullscreen is definitely nicer. It was also my first try at video editing, and I could have managed some of the transitions better, like when passing traffic vanishes. I should have made the cuts when the road was empty. I shot it about two hours after I unpacked my GoPro Hero. It's a first generation HD Hero which is of course cheaper than an HD Hero2 and gives a good account of itself in good lighting. The new models have much less noise when the light gets dimmer, if that's an issue, and have higher resolution in still camera mode (11MP v 5MP). The extra megapixels don't translate to higher video resolution but apparently are used to allow digital zooming without a need to interpolate upwards at narrower FOVs. The higher image quality makes me suspect that they interpolate DOWNWARDS at the wider FOVs, which cleans up the image a lot. They also give higher frame rates in still image multishot modes. Incidetally, I'm using a laptop as my main computer, ever since my last desktop fell over and I never bothered to replace it. It's a few years old now and is only good for streaming video at 720p. At 1080p it only streams a few seconds then drops a bunch of frames while it catches up. The funny thing is that it''ll play back a YouTube video at 1080p without a problem, but it grumbles about playing 1080p off a local drive. regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
