Why do Ian Provo Gopro Edits Look so Damn GOOD?

mynilla · 2010-10-09 17:33:46

http://vimeo.com/10607360 I always watch Ian Provo's videos and am amazed at the quality his Gopro produces! Even at the highest setting my Gopro doesnt look nearly this good. Anyone know why?

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His Edits just make me want to chill and just enjoy life and go skiing :)

Oct 14 2010 8:53PM

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How can you do the compression and exporting in Final Cut Express?

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so much good info in here.

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i think i recall asking him this once and im pretty sure it was a skydiving cover/ case

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this is correct

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Ian gave a good summary of good practice. A full step-by-step is available on the gopro support page as well for all you threadz-ers

http://www.goprocamera.com/tips/fcp.php

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Hola. With your GoPro, which mounts are you using?

Thanks.

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Its the program you use to edit your video. If you use final cut instead of imovie the video looks alot better

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Nov 1 2010 8:04PM

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I saw some of Ian's shots in Best Buy for an LG HDTV promo loop. Hopefully they didn't poach it

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What! thats dope, i agree hopefully they didn't poach it

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Thats funny. I entered a contest that was probably rigged, lost the contest, and LG gets to use my footage for whatever they want. 10k or 100k was the purse though, so it was worth the chance.

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wow, that's lame

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i attempted to make an edit like Ian Provo's, to bad i didnt have any mad deep pow to ski, all shot with a t2i, let me know what you think

Skiing Boggy Peaks 10/28/10 from fLyInG-LiNeS on Vimeo.

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I liked it

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As said before i bet ns is the only place where you can actually talk directly to the pros about their "secrets" in things like this! Thanks Ian!
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i figured he was using a better camera too but all his vids mention GoPro at the begining?

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I was in best buy the other day and there were some Ian Provo go pro shots playing on the tv. I was stoked

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so i'm trying to use this thread for my benefit... but it isnt working perfectly

i took my gopro footage, opened it in mpeg streamclip, and exported it to an .MOV in the "h.264"format. after doing this final cut express will let me import the files and it will even play them... but when it plays it lags and skips and i only see little blips of the shots. i can hear the audio but it doesnt play fluently

is it solely because the computer cant handle the gopro footage? i have a macbook which handles most everything else, so i'm wondering if i'm still doing something wrong

if someone could help me that would be great. it's depressing to take a bunch of footage then cant watch it fluently when editing it.

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