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Can't comment on any other software but i use power director. It does everything i need it to and isn't too pricey compared to others available. Only drawback i sometimes get is that it doesn't respond well to other commands (bit sluggish) whilst carrying out the editing however it is a small price to pay....may not happen with a more powerful laptop/pc. I'm sure there'll be more technically minded people along to give better advice shortly. Hope that helps a little.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks I will have a look, what version do you have?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Steelspoon, download the GoPro Cineform software as a first step, it'll let you put the timelapses together. iMovie on the Mac does the job fine and there is Final Cut Pro X if you want to spend a bit more.
On the PC and Mac all the other main editing suites offer a cut down version of their professional editing applications for about £60-100 and all have trials so you can try them out before buying them.
There is a free professional level editing suite called Lightworks which is a bit more complicated to get going.
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... There are reports that some cameras (mine seem fine btw, one was replaced recently by supplier) will stop recording once connection is lost and can only be restarted after a battery pull of the camera.
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I ran ProTune on a May 2012 GoPro HD2. I found that it was unstable under circumstances I couldn't work out, not related to any accessories (eg WiFi) as I don't use them. The symptoms were hard crash, and unable to record any footage. It didn't happen to start with, but once it started it rapidly became unusable.
Downgrading to the previous (non ProTune) firmware restored perfect operation.
As I'd bought this one in the US, I sucked up £3.45 of postage and RMAed it back to California. They sent me a new one which works perfectly. Great customer service.
So I'd say that if you're planning on upgrading an old HD2 to the latest firmware, test it a bit before you need to rely on it. Mine seemed fine for the first few hours use, but it wasn't.
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GoPro mounts - I've crash landed a Quadcopter loaded with a HD2 without any case or other padding from about 30m onto grass and it took no damage (you loose the last few seconds is all). Don't call me if you break it, but I think people mollycoddle their gear way too much. Use it before it's obsolete!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Those in the know say there will most likely be 1 or maybe 2 final firmware releases for the HD2, the first to get rid of the bugs they currently have with V.198 (incidentally it is thought that the underlying issue is inconsistent hardware and this is apparently one of the reasons GP have brought most of this in house. This theory stacks up with me as I only had an issue with one of the HD2's when updating to the V.198 release. All the rest upgraded and work without any issue.
There will most likely be 2nd and final release to add the functionality that is there but not yet enabled.
My batch of HD3 blacks shipped yesterday and should be here today if not tomorrow, can't wait to have a proper play.
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Any one used Sony Vegas?
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Steelspoon, yup, it's pretty good. That and Adobe Premiere are both good options with budget versions and free trials.
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Thanks I think I will go for Sony vegas
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Would love the Gopro HD Hero 3 Black. Was waiting out for Surfdome to get them in stock last Monday so that I could get 10% off with their code and 8% cashback with Quidco, but stocks never arrived. Gutted 
Does anyone know of any good deals (Quidco cashback merchants?). Not fussed on it arriving before Xmas, as long as it arrives before 25th January!
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For the hero 2 eBay is definately the place to go but not a lot of places have the hero 3 in stock 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I hope they come into stock in the New Year pretty sharpish otherwise I will have one VERY disappointed husband
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Have you tried the gopro website?
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Adobe Premier Elements is pretty cheap. Got Premier Elements and Photoshop Elements in a bundle for about £120 last year.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Steelspoon, what do you mean you had it on the wrong setting?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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i would like to add that tying a piece of elastic to your helmet through to your go pro will keep it safe if it flls off. i tried a hand plant 2 weeks ago and knocked off the go pro. if i didnt attach the go pro to the elastic i would have lost it!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ansta1, I think he means that he recorded the video in 960p which isn't the aspect ratio of the render he then created and uploaded to YouTube.
Steelspoon, Vimeo will preserve the aspect ratio of the original video if you just uploaded it straight from the camera file, I guess YouTube doesn't. It looks like you did a bit of editing and in that case you need to either make sure the project you created is setup to render the final video as 960p rather than 720p or 1080p or you can crop the video itself to cut off part of the image so it can be scaled to fit the right aspect ratio if you want to output in 720p/1080p without having the black borders.
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meh, thats what i couldnt quite understand, the implication was (hes posted the same comment on another thread) that shooting in 960 made the video smaller which i thought was strange. Now when will youtube and vimeo support full 4k........... I have a couple of hd3 blacks going on a test shoot to austria this week upcoming, going to be fun seeing the footage, but perhaps not so much fun playing with all that data.
anyway back to my accounts.. grrrrr
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I tend to shoot in 720p as the drift does that at 60fps, whereas 1080p is often limited to 30fps. I think the better frame-rate is far more important than the improvement in image quality, especially if you're uploading it to Vimeo or Youtube. 720p is more than good enough for me.
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unfortunately i have to drop the hero 3 quality down to 1080 to get 60fps, shame as 240fps is going to be fun to play with, but not sure how it will integrate into a 1080p clip.
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Yes I mean the video is not wide enough in 960p , anyone know what settings are best for skiing with the hero 2 that gives full screen footage? I don't know the difference between the 1080p and 720p and WVGA settings etc
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Steelspoon, as MEH mentioned this is because your capture settings are matched with the final video rendering options. What are the output settings of your video?
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I'm not sure i used premiere elements 11 to edit it and this was what it was like the whole way through, I uploaded it and rendered it straight from elements.
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Do you not get a different angle at the different settings on the GoPro2 ? Is this not what he means, that 960p is less wide than at 720p? Think its 110 vs 130 degrees or something similar?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yes that is what I mean thanks
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You can change the field of view in 1080p
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Steelspoon, the video resolution in the 960p mode is 1280x960 (4x3 aspect ratio). There should be a setting in the project settings that lets you change it. Then you can bring your video in and edit it and it will render out without the black bars either side. However YouTube will add them back in because it's player is widescreen (16x9 aspect ratio) only. You could upload to Vimeo instead as an alternative as its player will support different resolutions.
Or you can bring the video into a 720p project in Premier and crop the video so you remove some of the vertical parts and make it fit the right aspect ratio. Then you can have it fill the full amount of the player on YouTube.
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You know it makes sense.
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meh, I don't think his issue is with the black bars and/or the aspect ratio, rather that the field of view in 960p is less than that of 720p. And I imagine his reason for suggesting to use 720p over 1080p is that on the Hero 2 its only 30fps at 1080p.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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GoPro Hero2 vs. Hero: Modes and Features
Mode/Model GoPro Hero2 GoPro Hero
Video: 1080p/30fps narrow/medium/wide medium (127°)/wide (170°)
Video: 960p/48fps wide (170°) NA
Video: 960p/30fps wide (170°) wide (170°)
Video: 720p/60fps wide (170°) wide (170°)
Video: 720p/30fps wide (170°) wide (170°)
Video: WVGA/120fps wide (170°) NA
Video: WVGA/60fps wide (170°) wide (170°)
Mode/Model GoPro Hero2 GoPro Hero
Stills: 11mp wide (170°) NA
Stills: 8mp medium (127°) NA
Stills: 5mp medium (127°)/wide (170°) wide (170°)
Spec/Model GoPro Hero2 GoPro Hero
Engine Ambarella A5S Ambarella A2S
Engine core/speed ARM11/528MHz ARM9/216MHz
Imager 14mp Aptina MY9F002 5mp Aptina MT9P006I12STC
Recording lights 4 1
Burst mode 10 pics per second 3 pics per second
mini-HDMI yes no
mini-USB yes yes
Component no yes
3.5mm mic yes no
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Poster: A snowHead
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What's with the duplicate wide and sometimes wide NA ? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So what would be the highest quality resolution to film skiing at with a good fps where I don't need to change the resolution when I edit it?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Steelspoon, 1080p is fine and gives you the largest image with a framerate that is absolutely fine for video. 720p has double the frame rate which is useful if you want to do any slow motion.
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Timmaah,
Cut and paste whilst on mobile, will check clarify.
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