Replying to How to make gopro look professional +k

Im a big mountain skier but everytime I try to film with my gopro it doesn't look professional. I have a canon xL1 but I don't know how to upload it on computer and I don't want to bring that up to the mountain really so I was wondering how to make gopro look better like is ther settings that are better for powder or does it have to do with the sun or does anyone know how to connect my xl1 to computer because firewire isn't working for some reason Idk if it can be connected straight to usb but yeah thanks +k for answers