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- What's up, so today's video is all about
how to edit GoPro videos on your iPhone.
I have the iPhone XS Rose gold.
It's all they had left, but, it doesn't bother me.
So today I'm gonna teach you how to go about
editing your GoPro content on iPhone.
So there's a number of different apps that you can use
to edit videos on your phone.
I think Apple, if you have an Apple device
you will, because it's listed in the title.
You will be able to use like something like iMovie
I however prefer to use the application called Splice.
I have done another video on this ages ago
but since that video they've updated the app
they have made some really fantastic changes.
There's five ultimate reasons that I have
as to why I would use something like Splice
over other applications.
And they are because, one,
you can export in 4K on out of your phone in 24
25, 30, 50, 60 frames a second.
You can reverse clips
which some other applications don't do such as Adobe Rush.
You can't reverse a clip.
And that's frustrating,
especially if you're a TikTok creator,
and you're wanting to do one of those videos like this.
It's just that TikTok thing.
You're just walking backwards and you wanna reverse it.
It's a very simple thing where you can do that in Splice.
You can slow down clips.
A lot of these mobile editors, you can't slow down clips.
I think as a GoPro creator,
if you're shooting in higher frame rates,
you're gonna wanna do.
And the last, the last two reasons are
because one it's free.
Technically, we'll get into that.
But two the user experience design,
I think is one of the best apps on the market.
So let's get stuck into it.
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Before we get into the edit and all these editing tips.
When I say that this application is free,
it's free to download.
However, I don't know how many exports you get.
Much like Rush, you'll get three exports.
I don't know how many times
they'll allow you to export your content
before they prompt you to sign up for a trial
or to sign up for a subscription.
And the subscriptions range,
Couldn't quite find enough information on this.
It just lists on the app store that it sort of ranges
from like $16 or $15.99 a month,
all the way up to $48 annually.
Like every good service these days
there's obviously some kind of subscription model
attached to it.
So, so much to take into consideration
if you're tossing up between using this
or another potential subscription service,
which one is more beneficial for you?
Some of these apps are one-off fees.
Some of them aren't.
And I'm finding with better ones than not.
And the other thing that I really wanna stress
before we get stuck into this
is just a really frank question
about why I would use something like this.
Now I straight up don't edit much content on my mobile.
I edit everything on my desktop and that's because,
well, there's a number of reasons.
But the first reason is
because I like to sit down and I like to use
the dexterity of my hands to open folders.
But the other main reasons which differentiate this process
are the fact that a computer hard drive
or solid state drive is able to store
more of your GoPro content.
And so when I do do something like mobile editing
it's always a very crucial and critical selection process
as to what clips I choose to edit.
Now, I'm not gonna go out and shoot for a week
or go on a holiday,
and then attempt to transfer a hundred GoPro clips
onto my mobile, and then edit them into a video.
That just to me, doesn't work for a number of reasons.
One, I don't have a big enough or a fast enough processor
on my mobile to do something like that.
And I don't think these apps are really designed
to handle more than a couple of clips.
Like you might notice you do all this work
you put all these clips in there and then the app crashes.
Yes technology is getting better.
Yes iPad pro I think is starting to change
some of these,
but look, I'm just saying, if you do.
And when I do choose to edit on mobile
I am very critical with the clips that I choose to edit.
I don't edit long format content.
It's all snackable.
It's all, I'm either editing just a single clip for story,
a couple of clips to make a TikTok
nothing really goes past 15 or 30 seconds.
So think about that.
I know not everyone has a computer,
mobile editing is becoming more and more a question,
how can we edit better content on a mobile?
So that's why I'm addressing this topic.
So if you watch this video up here or up here
I did express that to get the best quality GoPro videos
you need to be uploading those videos
onto YouTube in 4K for a number of different reasons.
I definitely reckon you watch that.
But also you're probably wanting an editing suite
like Splice, which is able to export mobile content in 4K.
So that is a big plus for me as to why we use this.
This is a new addition to the app.
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The first thing that I do before I jump into any kind of
visual video editing is I download a track.
I need some kind of music to make sure that I can
one, cut to a beat.
Two, make sure I'm like stoked on,
pumped just to edit.
And so I will go to Artlist, Epidemic Sound, or Musicbed
all the links are in the description, and find a song.
Now, once I've found a song like, like I have.
You can quite simply transfer that song to your phone
and save it in your Splice library.
For this particular edit I just saved it across
by sending myself a text message from my computer.
I think you can AirDrop.
It wasn't working for me in this particular instance.
And then I just save it to the Splice library.
So the first thing that I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna open up Splice and start editing.
So once you've got a clip
and you'll title the project, I'm gonna go backflip
cool, we can choose our aspect ratio.
Now I like to start my edits
in a 16:9 aspect, then change them to portrait.
If for something like this if I wanted
to post it on Facebook or YouTube,
I think it's better to have the wide perspective
and then cut four.
But if you know you're specifically cutting for your mobile,
like your story or something,
just jump straight into portrait.
So I'm happy with the aspect ratio I'm gonna go create.
This is then gonna create
it's gonna show me my clip
and if I just press play, I've got the audio.
So you'll notice with this clip that it already slows down.
As I press play this bit is already much slower
than it would be in real time.
Now, the reason why it's doing that
is because I've imported the clip
with these time tweaks that I've already done
which has saved just in my camera roll.
This is an HEVC clip.
And I think it's a 2.7K clip shot at 120 frames a second
which is what I wanted
to get this really nice slow motion backflip.
That's why it's already slowed
because the clip already has these properties
but to slow it down further,
all I have to do is
well, what I like to do is I tap the clip.
I go and I create a split.
So I'll split the clip here and
all the way for the backflip until we land in the water.
So let's just say there I'll then create, tap it split.
So I've got this highlighted section
which is what I'm gonna slow down.
Then I just have to scroll across.
I've got a speed icon and I'll take my speed to 50%.
So now you'll see these two little dots pop up.
It's important not to double tap those dots
because what's that is asking
if I like go to double-tap.
It says apply to all
I don't want to apply this 50% speed to all.
I just want to apply it to the section which it already is.
Now I can play through.
And that is, that slow.
Let's say you don't like the audio
or you wanna change the audio.
The next thing I'll do is I'll tap the clip.
I'll go to volume
and I'll just bring the volume down to 50%.
What I also might like to do
if this is an introductory clip is to tap on these fades,
like fade in or fade out with the audio.
However, I'm cool with it
just sitting lower than what my audio bed will sit.
So now I'm gonna import my track.
I'll go to music, which is that bottom one in the top right.
You can see import music.
I click on that and I have one track, which I have imported
which is from Musicbed, it's called back to you by Utah.
Tap on that.
It's cool It's kinda like,
it's just kind of spatial I like it.
Cool add that.
It's gonna import into Splice.
Now I'm gonna scrub through my track and just look,
there's the beat, so the beat drops right there.
That's the only section that I want in this track.
I might just cut it here again tap on split.
So you see, as you hit split
you've got two notes, like two musical notes.
Let's say, I only want this
from where I've hit the split.
So I'm gonna tap on the one on the left
and I'm gonna delete that one out.
So let's just delete that one out.
Then I'll just tap on that.
So that's all the bit that I want.
Click and hold to drag it, like back to the start
so that, essentially my music
can be the start of my timeline.
What I'm going through now this process
is sort of why I don't like mobile editing
is because, if I was to generate a whole heap of clips
and a whole heap of content, then look at what I'm doing.
I'm tapping
and I'm clicking and I'm holding like this for me
isn't my favorite workflow.
For short single clips it's cool
but not for like, 10 minute YouTube videos
or long format projects.
So the next feature of this app that I really like
is the reverse feature.
And that's very simple again.
So we're gonna tap on the clip
and all we have to do at the bottom
is scroll across and you'll see that little icon reverse.
So this just starts to reverse the asset
with these two skills
you can make so much cool content.
Let's say all I've done with that is chuck it in Splice.
I have cut where I wanted
made the incisions, sped it up and reversed it
and sped it up.
That's how you would do something like that.
Super simple.
And that's why I would use something like Splice.
It's just addressing one clip.
That's weird, it's like, oh, landing in the water.
Next tip for using something like Splice
to create GoPro edits is to color grade.
I talk about color grading and these kinds of videos up here
but you can do this and address this really easily.
All I have to do is click on the filters icon at the bottom.
And I mean, it's supposed to be showing me these filters.
It's not showing me the
I mean, it's showing me when I click on them,
but it's not showing me when I like anyway.
So let's just say I click A6
and then I might want to adjust this even further.
I don't know why it wasn't showing me the little
like preview of them.
And then I might increase the contrast a little bit
see how that's taking out all the blacks
kind of crushing the dynamic range.
I'm not so down with that.
I might just let's see what the sharpness is like,
that's a bit too sharp.
I'll take the sharpness down a bit.
Let's just see how that looks.
It's a little softer.
That's pretty cool.
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The last thing might wanna do
is to actually add some transitions.
This I think is really handy for a very basic app like this.
If I tap on the transition little window,
which is that little kind of icon
split between the two clips.
You'll see that it brings up all of these transitions.
I've got whips
I've got blurs, I've got rotation spins.
Like look at the rotation spins for example,
that's pretty cool.
We'll do that again.
You have the ability also to speed or,
to change the parameters of that transition.
So top right is I just clicked export
and here you can choose the resolution.
I'm gonna export it in 4K.
I'm going to export it at 24 frames a second,
which is just the preset for cinema.
And let's share that.
All I have to do as click share, exporting the video.
There we go.
That's what I would then take to Instagram
and upload it either in my
as a story or either just in my fill in my grid.
But yeah, this Splice user experience, exploiting 4K,
all of these features I think are awesome
for editing GoPro content on mobile.
And one more thing before I go,
I have put a form in the top link of the description
for those of you that are interested in some video
editing consultation or potentially interested
in mobile filmmaking, or GoPro filmmaking.
At the moment I'm just kind of gauging interests.
So fill that in, it's a landing page.
Just pop it I think it's just like an email and name.
And that way I can reach out to
those of you that are interested one-on-one
if that does end up happening.
If you guys again have enjoyed today's video
punch thumbs up button,
and I'll see you guys in the next upload, JR peace.
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