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Sunday, October 26, 2014

How to Make GoPro HD HERO3/HERO4 Footage and Pinnacle Studio Friendly?

Having issues importing GoPro HD HERO3/HERO4 MP4 footage to Pinnacle Studio for editing? The article shows you a quick fix, just follow it.



GoPro video cameras - Surf Hero, Hero 960, HD Hero 2, HD Hero 3, Hero 4, etc. are familiar with everyone whoever has passion for outdoor activities. The point here, you will find it a painful experience to import and edit GoPro HD MP4 movies with Pinnacle Studio software. And there are some problems such as not showing the video only audio, unsupported file type when playing & editing GoPro HD video in MP4 format.


In fact, Pinnacle Studio is compatible with MPEG-4 files. However, the H.264 MP4 from GoPro camera is a compressed output format and it is still not an ideal editing format. That's why it's a hard work when you tried to import GoPro MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio. Fortuantely, there is an easy way to fix the issue. Just keep reading a brief how-to on the simple process, which guaranteed to edit your GoPro HD Hero3/Hero4 MP4 clips in Pinnacle Studio smoothly.

The easy workaround to get GoPro footage and Pinnacle to work nicely is to convert GoPro MP4 to a more editing-friendly format. To do that, you can use EaseFab Video Converter, which can help you fast transcode GoPro HD MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio preferred formats e.g. AVI, WMV for easier editing. Plus, it supports converting all GoPro camera MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. What’s more, it’s the optimal tool for transcoding GoPro, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, etc camera or camcorder videos to kinds of NLE programs Windows Movie Maker, Avid MC, Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas and more. Just download it and follow the simple guide to achieve your goal.

How to Convert GoPro HD footage for Editing in Pinnacle Studio

Step 1: Install and launch the GoPro MP4 converter, and the click "Add Video" button to import your GoPro videos to the software.



If you want to convert multiple GoPro MP4 videos to a single file, simply click the "Edit" menu to choose the "Merge Into One File" to combine all the added video files into one.

Step 2: Click "Profile" bar to determine output format. Here we choose "HD Video" -> "AVI HD" as output, which seems to be the best one due to the great video quality but small size. Of course, MPG, WMV are also the proper formats for Pinnacle.



Tips: By clicking the Settings button beside Profile, you can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Step 3: Finally, click the convert button under the preview window, the converter will start encoding GoPro HD Hero 3/Hero4 MP4 for importing to Pinnacle Studio.

Soon after the conversion is finished, you can find the converted file on your computer by clicking the "Open" button. And then you can import the converted GoPro files to Pinnacle Studio for editing via its "Import" option.

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