How to not make my GoPro videos look like shit

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Yeah so I was wondering how to not make my gopro videos look like it was filmed with a calculator...im pretty new to all this shit not some 100% DSLR editing stuff. +k for anything useful

Oct 21 2012 11:26PM

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.qzyxya

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Here are a few things that come to mind

1 film in 720p 60fps - this gives a much more smooth video and allows you to do slow motion in post (if you want to)

2 mount the gopro in a good angle - kind of obvious...

3 when exporting, make it highest quality as you can - im not an expert at this. Try to get as high of a bitrate as you can

4 do some color correction to the footage - its normally pretty flat and bland (ugly shit) straight out of the camera. use magic bullet looks (or just manually color correct it if you know how/want to)

5 edit out the shitty parts - so many gopro edits on youtube just go on and on with every single run and all of the bails. cut the bad stuff out.

also check out this thread - https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/568501/

ian posts a pretty good workflow, converting to prores 422, what settings to export as, etc. I use premiere pro so i just take the raw footage (ppro handles it pretty well. plus i dont know what format i should convert it to).

Oct 22 2012 1:56AM

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Linked

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is isn't related to post but when filming make sure its stable there is nothing worse than watching shaky footage.

Oct 22 2012 2:11AM

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juicedrummer11

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1. Get up close and personal to the action. the closer the better is a good general rule of thumb with gopro footage because it shoots so wide. for action sports i like to shoot 720p60. also get clean stable footage

2. If your on final cut, open clips in MPEG Streamclip and convert to prores422 (LT) and send them to a folder

3. Import new prores 422 clips into final cut bin. drop clip into sequence and click "Yes" to match sequence settings to clip settings

4. do crazy editing with dubstep and twixtor and trippy ass effects

5. realize that was a bad idea and clear timeline

6. re-start editing to good music

7. color correct all footage

8. watch and enjoy what you just created. if you don't feel like you like it at that time, delete it and repeat steps 4-7

9. export to h.264 codec at "Best" quality. frame rate to 30fps or 24fps depending on slowed down footage and at 100% original size video with audio at 44.1kHz and 192kb/s

10. upload to youtube and create major facebook news feed jam on everyones wall with new video

11. get laid

Oct 22 2012 3:23AM

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gravel

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not true. you can export to a high bitrate, but when you're uploading to a website, you want to drop the bitrate to around 5000 so that 1. the file is smaller and 2. most video websites, like vimeo, work best with 5000 kbps for HD footage

Oct 22 2012 10:11AM

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.qzyxya

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Oh, I just use the youtube preset/vimeo presets.

Oct 22 2012 10:41AM

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