How to Edit GoPro Videos

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• Best Gopro Video Editor For Mac

Welcome to /r/GoPro! Post your GoPro videos, pictures, news, or anything else related to GoPro here! Please read the information in this sidebar, especially the rules, before posting. Whether you're a weekend GoPro shooter or a full-time video professional, you need editing software that's powerful but easy to use. Here's how the best video editing software stacks up.

Edited by Pat Bitton

March 5, 2019

Have some exciting GoPro footage in HD or 4K and want the best way to edit it? Try Movavi Video Editor – a top-notch app with a wide range of useful tools and options that will help you make your GoPro film truly professional. Delete unwanted elements in the footage, insert smooth animated transitions between video segments, apply a slow motion effect to emphasize the most spectacular moments, add background music, and more!

Start making your GoPro movie right now – download Movavi Video Editor for PC or Mac and follow the editing tips in the tutorial below.

The program works with videos from all cameras in the GoPro HERO line (including GoPro HERO 6, 5, and 4).

Install the Movavi's GoPro Editor

Open the downloaded file and install the program following the instructions on your computer screen.

Use the USB cable to connect the GoPro camera to your computer and transfer the video files to your hard drive. Open Movavi Video Editor, choose Create project in full feature mode and then click Add Media Files to upload the files you want to edit. The chosen videos will be added to the Timeline automatically.

Play the added videos in the Preview Window on the right and decide if there are any video segments you don’t want to appear in your movie. If everything is OK and no frames need to be removed, just move on to the next step.

If you want to delete some parts of the footage, review the video and locate the best place to start cutting. Once you’ve found it, pause the video and click the Split button to split the video in two. To remove the video segment, click it and use the Delete button above the timeline or just hit Delete on your keyboard.

If you want to remove a segment from the middle of your video, first cut it in two at the beginning of the section you want to remove, then again at the end of that section, and delete the isolated section from your video.

If you have several video segments on the timeline, you can add animated transitions between them. Go to the Transitions tab, shown in the screen image. Click the icons to see the transitions preview in the window on the right. Choose the ones you like and drag-and-drop them between the video segments on the timeline.

With our GoPro editing software you can apply the popular slow motion effect to any part of your video. Select a video segment on the Timeline and click the Clip Properties icon. Then move the Speed slider to the left to reduce the speed of your clip. If you want to slow down a certain part of the clip, you need to isolate this part first using the Split tool. Do it as described in the step 3 of this tutorial, then click the isolated fragment and apply the slo-mo effect as written above.

Now it’s time to spice up your GoPro video with some atmospheric music. Click Add Media Files and choose the audio file you want to use. If your movie is longer than the music, just duplicate the audio file and place both on the same track. Alternatively, you can click Add Media Files again and choose a different audio file. If the music is longer than your movie, just drag the right edge of the audio to the left along the timeline until you reach the end of your video.

If you don’t need the original audio track in your GoPro video, click on it once and hit Delete on your keyboard. You can also reduce the volume – just double-click the audio on the timeline and move the Volume slider to the desired position.

Click Export and select the required option from the tabs in the left part of the pop-up window. The GoPro movie maker app lets you choose any popular output format. Choose the format or preset that fits your needs best and click Start.

GoPro video editing is easy with Movavi Video Editor!

Movavi Video Editor

Creating videos has never been so easy!

• Add transitions, filters, titles, and callouts
• Export videos in any popular format

Movavi Photo Editor

An intuitive photo editing app that lets you retouch any photo on the fly. Improve quality, add filters and captions, remove unwanted objects, change backgrounds, and more!

Best Gopro Editor For Mac

Movavi Video Converter

А versatile and powerful media converter that lets you enjoy your videos, photos and music in the format of your choice on any device; plus, it's extremely easy to use.

GoPro Studio software makes it easy to import your GoPro media, play back your videos and Time Lapse photo sequences, view photos and create professional-quality videos. We’ve taken our most popular GoPro videos and turned them into GoPro Edit Templates that help fast-track you to an incredible edit. The music, edit points, slow-motion effects and more have been dialed—all you have to do is replace our video clips with yours. Or if you want to create edits from scratch, you can do that, too. Trim and mix clips. Add titles, music, audio tracks and more. Adjust video playback speeds for ultra slow motion and fast motion—Flux makes speed changes super smooth. Plus, view HiLight Tags to quickly find your best clips for more convenient playback and editing.

Features:

• Automatically import your GoPro media
• Play back your GoPro videos and view your photos
• Play back and export your Time Lapse photo sequences as videos
• View HiLight Tags to quickly find your best clips for more convenient playback and editing1
• Easily create engaging GoPro-style videos—trim, edit and mix video clips, plus add titles, music and audio tracks
• Flux enables super smooth ultra slow-motion and fast-motion speed changes
• GoPro Edit Templates help fast-track you to an incredible edit by dialing the music, edit points, motion effects and more
• Export video still frames at full resolution
• Fisheye adjustment control
• Edit immersive 3D videos (requires Dual HERO System2)
• Update your camera software for the latest features and best performance3
• Supports GoPro, Canon, Nikon and other constant frame rate H.264 mp4 and .mov4 formats

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What's New:

• New: Project Autosave
• New: Alt+dragging clip replacement
• New: GoPro Edit Templates make it easy to create GoPro-style videos
• New: Trim, mix and color controls
• New: Add titles, music, audio tracks and more
• New: Fisheye adjustment control
• New: Adjust video playback speed for fast or slow motion
• New: Export video still frames at full resolution
• Create videos from time-lapse photo sequences
• Create time-lapse photo sequences from videos
• Edit immersive 3D videos (requires 3D HERO System, sold separately)
• Supports GoPro, Canon, Nikon and other constant frame rate H.264 mp4 and .mov formats
• GoPro CineForm codec provides up to 1080p with deep color in 3rd party software

Best Gopro Video Editor For Mac

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  All of the products in the Vegas software family make it easy to import and edit movies, images, and music so you can jump right in and start creating your next video or audio masterpiece.

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