GOPRO video

[seanrock]

When editing GoPRO video during NEW PROJECT what parameters are the best choice.

Thanks,
Mark

[Paul LS]

A big welcome to Muvipix. GoPro videos are in H.264 or MP4 format I believe. Choose the Project Settings to match your footage... ie match the frame size and fps of your project to the video, also, I believe the footage is Progressive. Note GoPro have a free converter to convert the video to avi format that might be more user friendly for Premiere Elements.

Your only issue will be if you have an old GoPro as I think this shot in 960p: 1280×960, 48fps. The newer versions shoot in 1080p and 720p which are more suitab;r for Premiere Elements.

[Chuck Engels]

Welcome to Muvipix Mark

Just as an FYI, in Version 11 you don't have to choose a preset
In version 10 if you pick the wrong one you will get a warning and will be given the opportunity to change the project settings

[Ron Hunter]

Hi! I recently used my GoPro Hero2 HD footage to make a dirtbike video so I have some ideas that might help.

The GoPro settings were Medium FOV, 1080, 30fps. I like the medium FOV because it looks less "fisheye" than wide FOV.

For editing I did NOT convert the GoPro files. I created a project in PRE10 and guessed at a HD preset. I imported the GoPro MP4 files and PRE10 asked if I wanted to change to the appropriate setting. I clicked OK and the "DSLR 1080" preset was chosen. Rendering was not required (no red line across timeline).

Next I imported some files from my HV30 camcorder and placed them on the timeline. Rendering was now required, but it wasn't a big deal.

Editing flowed as usual and the movie turned out great. Good luck!

[seanrock]

Thanks for the info, I have the new gopro, but I shot a bunch of underwater video on the default which was 960 at 29.96fps, I converted in using the super c. converted to a DV file as recommended in the book, but it doesn't appear to be working very good, then again, I'm not sure what setting I should use at that point. I'll try using the gopro converter and convert to a AVI file, If I bring it in to PE as a DSLR file at 1080 29.96 it seems ok, just not sure If I'm going to run into problem down the road.

I"m a complete newbie at this (if you can't tell ) I picked up the book from muvipix and it helps alot, but I'll still have a bunch of questions that I'll be asking.

Please bare with me.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Mark

[Chuck Engels]

We all love to help people Mark, no worries about how many questions you need to ask
Most of us would be way over our quota if there was one.

Why doesn't the file converted to DV seem to be working? Did you convert to DV-AVI or something else?

Here is the format that you must have shot, from the GoPro site specs'
960p = 1280×960 pixels (4:3), 30 fps, 12 Mbit/s data rate

This is 4:3 aspect ratio, not widescreen 16:9. Should convert to DV-AVI really well and then should work in a DV preset project. Version 10 won't handle this natively, there are no 960p settings at all under any format.

[seanrock]

Thanks Chuck,
When I played the converted file it was very pixilated when I played it. There was a setting that said DV in the Super C converter that I used.
I used the Gopro coverter last night and convert them over to AVI and it seems to work well. I'm just not sure once they are converted which setting to use. I guess I have some reading to do on formats.
I guess the best thing in the future is to shoot the Gopro in 1080.
I did put a little video together last night and it actully looks pretty good. The gopro does a pretty good job but alot of the color start getting washed out once I get below 30' of water, reds are gone, and it's left with a green tint. I'll have to start looking at filters or someway to start getting colors back into the film.