View Single Post
Old 05-18-2017, 03:22 PM   #20
Ric
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 258
Re: GoPro hero session

The gopro softwares are so buggy or unpractical.

Gopro studio doesn't work anymore, it freezes after the conversion step and that is a problem that all users have encountered, yet Gopro didn't provide a patch for this problem.
We are left with another software from Gopro, called Quik. Quik doesn't allow to keep the original sound of the video and instead replace it with a Music track. And there is no option for not using the music, you must include one of the 10 'free' music tracks provided !
I used quotes for 'free', because even provided that you want to use the Music, some users report that Youtube warns them of copyrights infringement on this music !The solution, how surprising, is to subscribe to the non free version of Quik.
This is surrealist; Gopro forces you to break Youtube Copyrights with Quik and doesn't try to fix Gopro Studio !
You can't make clips out of your videos and build a small movie in Studio and Quik can only produce a 1 min clip, in addition to forcing you to use a music. What's left ? Windows Movie Maker . Thank you Gopro !

Brute videos out of the Session is OK, but no better than a Gopro hero 3. It's advertised as smaller than a classic hero, but not even IMO because it is shaped like a cube, thicker than the smallest dimension (width) of a classical hero.
Image quality is OK, performance OK. Magenta filter improves, but the problem with the softwares provided by Gopro is overwhelming.

So going for a Session was a mistake, I should have gone for a Classic hero, which are by the way more expensive, even a refurbished Hero4 is $100 more than a brand new Session 4. There must be a reason for that.
You have been warned.
Ric is offline   Reply With Quote