Hello! Today I'm going to be showing you how to use the
GoPro editing software.
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Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
Hello I’m Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV.
I'm in the rather salubrious office today and I'm going to be showing you
how to cut your GoPro footage using the
editing software. Now GoPro studio is
free to download, although you will half
to check that your system is up to it, because it requires huge amount of memory and
processing power.
Now once you've downloaded the software, the first thing you need to do
is to get your footage that you've shot on your GoPro
and get it onto your system. You do that by
connecting up your USB cable,
plugging into a PC,
and then your GoPro will appear as if
it's an extra drive on your computer. You can then swap your files
over to a different folder
and then start uploading. So what I’m going to do now is just
copy them across to a new folder
on my computer, which means I can work off them from my computer because it's more
stable than
working of the files from the camera. Also it means that I can't delete files
from my camera and it the SD card will be free to use
on another shoot. This is going to take some time so I'm going to
put on the kettle.
Ok, so once you’ve copied your files over you need to open up GoPro studio.
Once GoPro’s opened up, you can then
import your files from your hard drive
using this column here.
You choose the folder that you've left your files in and then
double-click on a file and it will then appear. You can now play that
file. Like that and you can also
trim the file. Now also if you wanted to change the
speed you have got
advanced settings here, which allow you to change the
speed, the size of the image, the quality and also the
file type. So you can do an awful lot at this stage but we don't
actually need to do much. Now If I wanted to trim
a clip, all I have to do
is choose the start point, and
choose the end point. Now if the clip is that long
I've chosen that section. What I'm now going to do
is add this to my conversion list.
Now converting a file means that you're converting into the file type that
GoPro Studio can edit. So it goes on to my conversion list
and then I will convert that later on. Now what I do next
is just choose more files. So it goes on.
Look the footage is looking great, so what I've done is I’ve trimmed and I’ve added
everything to the conversion list. The next stage to convert everything into a
usable format.
That's the time to click 'Convert All'
Go to make another cup of tea because it will take a while.
Okay great looks like
all my clips have been converted and
I will now proceed to Step 2 as it says here.
Okay,
at this point I've got choice of choosing an
edit template. Now it will make films for you if you want it to
but for the purposes of this exercise I’m actually going to use a
blank template.
So I click on that and create it, and now I've got the ability to create whatever
I want.
You see the clips I've imported will now appear
on the left hand side and in order to put them onto the film time line, which
runs long here.
All I have to do is just drag them down there,
and then I can trim them, play them,
cut them and control them
using all the controls on the right hand side. We'll talk about that in a minute.
Right so all I’m going to do today is make a rough montage of
the footage against the music track. The first thing I need to do is important the music.
Now I can do that very easily by clicking on media
and then
choosing the track I want to use
and that will appear here in my uploaded clips track.
What I'm going to do is then
drag that over onto the time-line
and it will then play. Right so what I’m going to start doing now is constructing my film
by dragging the clips onto the time line. I do this by
clicking, holding and dragging them onto the time line. Now
what I'm going to do is create a rough assemble edit.
So that means I'm gonna have my shots
in the right order but not necessarily
trimmed to the right length, because I can do that later on.
Now the idea is that we get all the shots in the right order if you decide
that you haven't got a shot
in the right order and you want to move it around you easily do that.
I'm going to insert key turning in the ignition slot
and place it there,
because that's actually in the right order. Okay so once I've made my
rough assembly time it’s time to start thinking about doing a fine cut. Now that's when
you trim
all your shots to length. As you can see at the moment they're all
far too long. So I'm gonna trim them all to the right length and that we should
start to
feel like a film's coming together. Right let's take a quick look at the
right hand side of the screen. Now this is the
control panel. This controls your shots. This is where you can alter your
exposure,
the speed up your shots, sound levels of your shots,
you can alter the white balance, you can also alter the exposures. So say for
example I wanted to alter the exposure
of this shot all I have to do
is drag the slider up and down. As you can see,
it's very, very easy. There are also a whole bunch of
presets with the GoPro studio and
you can get certain film looks if you want them. For example
they call this their 1970’s look. Which is a bit warmer exposed,
to be a bit,
a bit like a kind of warm film look and you can choose any number of these.
You've got a bit of vignetting on this one.
Sepia if I want to make it look old-fashioned,
like it's night vision and so on and so forth. So you can choose any of those
presets
for this film. I'm gonna keep it straight. Look what I've done
is I've shot something, I've imported it from my GoPro camera
into GoPro Studio. I've chosen the files I want to use.
I've trimmed them to length and I have converted them to a format
AVI, that
GoPro Studio can use to edit and I have created a rough assembly and then I've
gone and
fine-tuned it. Now I'm pretty happy with where we've got to there.
What I need to do now is export it so I can use it
on YouTube, facebook or wherever. Okay so the only decision you need to make it
this stage
is what file size you want to export your film at. Now
everything's there for you. Again GoPro Studio it's very easy. There are a
number of
presets that you can choose. Optimize for YouTube, for Vimeo,
for mobile device or even you can choose your own custom edit and if you're
shooting
and editing at 4k it will export it
at that size and you can see also when you select one,
the size of the file that
your final video will be and that may have some bearing on what you do.
Okay for this edit I'm going to choose to export it for YouTube. I click
export.
I choose the folder I want it to go in and
away it goes and it's as easy as that.
Next stop, Hollywood!
Right that’s it. Brilliant what a lot of
fun that it. Thank you for joining me on AdoramaTV today.
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