GoPro-CineForm-Studio-Manual-01.pdf

GoPro CineForm Studio Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INSTALLATION

OVERVIEW: WORKING INSIDE THE STUDIO

STEP 1: IMPORT & CONVERT

STEP 2: EDIT

GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO

GoPro CineForm Studio 1.1

User Manual

INSTALLATION

After verifying that your system meets the requirements to run GoPro CineForm Studio, and

downloading the correct installer for your Mac or Windows computer, launch the installer by

double-clicking and accept the licensing terms to install the software on your system.

( NOTE : The default location the installer chooses will be the most appropriate location based on

your system. Do not choose to modify this property unless you are a very experienced user and

have a clear reason to do so.)

OVERVIEW: WORKING INSIDE THE

STUDIO

Transferring video ﬁles

from your GoPro camera

GoPro CineForm Studio is divided into two main

areas that deﬁne a two-step workﬂow. The ﬁrst step

is to ʻImportʼ your footage and ʻConvertʼ it to a

GoPro CineForm ﬁle or GoPro CineForm 3D ﬁle.

The GoPro CineForm ﬁle can be adjusted for color

and framing in the ʻEditʼ section in Step 2.

The adjustments made inside the Edit area of the

software are created as “metadata” and saved along

with the media ﬁle. No actual changes are made to

the ﬁle and anything you do can be revised, or

completely reversed at any time. These non-

destructive changes are a feature unique to the

GoPro CineForm ﬁle type. By converting your

footage to GoPro CineForm ﬁles, and keeping them

in that state while you use your favorite video editing

program to cut them together while you make color

and framing (and 3D alignment) changes in GoPro

CineForm Studio, you keep your options open until

the very end of your project.

Once your clip is ready, or youʼve edited your GoPro

CineForm footage in your video editing software and

exported a GoPro CineForm master clip, you can

export your ﬁnal video to an MP4 ﬁle for sharing, or

to upload to the web.

Your GoPro HD Hero camera creates

video ﬁles in the “DCIM” directory on the

inserted SD card. If you are using a 3D

Hero system utilizing two HD Hero

cameras in the GoPro 3D Housing, each

camera will create a video ﬁle and they

will be labeled as left and right using an

“L” or an “R” in the ﬁle names.

You can access your GoPro video clips

on the SD card from the camera in two

ways:

1. Connect the GoPro camera with the

SD card inserted, to your Windows or

Mac computer using a USB cable

(turn on the camera to have it be

available to open from the computer)

or;

2. Remove the SD card and use an SD

card reader device either installed in

your computer, or an external card

reader device.

First, make a new directory (or folder)

on your computerʼs hard drive to serve

as the destination for the clips you

transfer from your camera. We will refer

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to this as the “project folder” from here forward. The video ﬁles from your GoPro camera may be

large and the ﬁles you convert and make changes to (including GoPro CineForm 3D clips) can get

quite large depending on the length of your footage, so create this folder on a drive with enough free

space.

Second, open the SD card that is now available on your computer via the camera or card reader and

locate the “DCIM” folder. Click and drag the complete contents out of the DCIM folder and into the

project folder you made in your computer. If you are using the 3D Hero system, you will drag the

contents of each cameraʼs DCIM folder (youʼll see folder names like “100G...” one labeled ending in

“3D_L” and the other “3D_R”) into your project folder.

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The Advantages of the GoPro CineForm Codec for Editing

Your GoPro Hero camera is a unique device. It records high deﬁnition video that looks great, but yet

creates a very small data ﬁle. The way it does this is through creating a video clip that is highly

“compressed”. Image compression is used in many types of computer and digital device images like

JPEG ﬁles from your mobile phone or camera. Most DSLR cameras that shoot high deﬁnition video

as well as many other video cameras create similar ﬁles.

When you edit your video clips together in your favorite video editing software (your chosen

application could be anything from Windows Movie Maker or iMovie up to Adobe Premiere Pro or

Final Cut Pro, to name a few), part of your computerʼs job in playing the footage back is the

“decompression” (you might think of it as “reconstruction”) of the video clip so you can see the full

frame when playing and editing the video clips. Your cameraʼs ﬁles are easy enough to play back in

most media players, but cutting them together in an editing application or altering their color or other

characteristics can stress your computer, and give you less than ideal results.

Converting your camera footage to GoPro CineForm ﬁles makes a copy of your original footage that

results in a much larger ﬁle size (make sure you have enough hard drive space), but they actually

improve the responsiveness of your computer and your editing software because the ﬁles are

designed to work with your computer much more efﬁciently than MPEG4.

With GoPro 3D content, conversion to a GoPro CineForm ﬁle keeps the two clips that provide the

“left eye” and “right eye” view in one ﬁle, allowing you to adjust alignment, and you can simply edit

them like any other video ﬁle.

Inside GoProʼs CineForm Studio, you can make color, framing, or 3D alignment or viewing

adjustments to your GoPro CineForm ﬁles, and these changes will be reﬂected in the same footage

inside your editing software. GoPro CineForm ﬁles preserve image and color quality better than your

cameraʼs original MPEG4 ﬁles through any color adjustments you make during editing. This leads

many users to keep GoPro CineForm Studio open while theyʼre editing their footage in another

application as they can click back and forth between applications, making adjustments to their

footage in Studio and clicking back to their editing application to continue to cut their clips together

while the adjustments they made are updated immediately upon their return to editing.

The way GoPro CineForm Studio makes these changes to your GoPro CineForm clips is by saving

your changes made in the ʻEditʼ interface of the software as ʻmetadataʼ. You may have heard this

term before and the typical explanation is “Itʼs data about the data...” A better way to deﬁne it is that

when you make framing or color or 3D alignment changes in Studio, you are saving a ʻdescriptionʼ of

how to play the video back, and not actually altering the clip itself. Your video editing application

simply plays the footage back with your adjustments, even if you made them during an editing

session by moving between your editing software and GoPro CineForm Studio.

The power of using metadata is being able to make changes and then change your mind without

actually affecting the original footage in a way that would affect the image quality. You can always go

back to the original footage and start over if you need to, because no matter what you adjusted in

Studio, it can be reversed, reset, or revised without affecting the original image until youʼre ready to

export the ﬁnished video.

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