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I know there is a photo and video section but the traffic mainly seems like its just posting video not equipment related. Anyways for my birthday this year I got the Sony action cam as200 and the live view remote bundle. I downloaded sony's movie maker as its free and I don't plan on running production quality stuff just making videos for me and my friends. Well in doing so when I open the footage with the software the playback is horrible. It will play like a picture show instead of smooth and sometimes will freeze for a full 5 seconds then jump forward to where its supposed to be. I thought it was something I was doing wrong so I tried to open it in windows media player and it plays fine in there. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or some software thats worth using? the settings are 1080 30p, the SD card is a SanDisc ultra plus 64GB micro sdxc. Any help would be appreciated.
It's almost certainly your computer that is the problem.
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* May not have the correct codecs installed on your PC, wrong codecs mean it cannot transcode properly and have studdering issues.
* Sometimes transcoding the footage into a different format can help, depending on what the source file is.
* VLC Player is a great free, non spamy video player that has MANY codecs build in, i suggest downloading and trying it.
*** Edit i misread the Q,
You probably need to transcode the video first before editing, i have a BEAST computer x99 system top of the range and i still get studdering on GOPRO raw footage 1080, no matter what i do. The only way i get smooth playback is when i transcode the video first using "Gopro Studio" this transcodes it (Basically expands the filesize out) to a less dense file and therefore can be played easier by the editor. I'm sure you can use gopro studio on your footage to process it before editing. you can even edit in gopro studio.
GoPro Studio is an easy free program that will do what you need.
I use Adobe Premier Elements to edit with and it will transfer the raw files into an editable format.
No matter which one you use you do need to have a reasonable amount of RAM and processing power which is not the same as storage space.
A machine with an i6 or i7 Intel Processor with 6GB of RAM or better would give you good results.
If your using anything older than say Win7 SP2 you may want to review your hardware.
Another program you can try is 5D To RGB, what this does is convert your video files to something that your computer can digest a little smoother.
Here's a video about the program:
https://vimeo.com/27562436
Also, quit any unnecessary programs...maximize your RAM.
I haven't tried the Sony program, so I don't have any tips for you there.
Also get one that's 7200rpm. You will see it in the specs on the package.
My advice:
Record at the highest resolution you'd like to publish. Most likely 1080p at 60fps.
Get a decent video card ($150 model from nVidia or AMD).
Install a lot of Ram on your computer. 16GB or more is recommended.
For disk IO buy a good SSD drive, or better yet get a few and set up a raid array (super fast). The Samsung drives EVO 840 and above can handle the abuse of a raid array and video editing.
Use GoPro Studio to convert your original footage to an intermediate file format that is bigger but easy for your Video editing software to render. GoPro Studio (free) offers the cineform codec which retains the quality well. The Pro version for $250 or $300 has an upgraded version of the codec. I haven't bought it yet. The free version works well.
Convert your initial footage to a lower resolution just for editing (480p). Keep it the same length as your initial footage. Use this version while editing. When you're ready to do a final render "replace" the temp low res footage (480p) with your high res footage (1080p).
Move your swap file (virtual memory) to an SSD drive.
Move the caches in your video editing software to an SSD.
Use different drives (SSDs) for your virtual memory, video editing software caches, footage, and rendering output. Obviously this step can get expensive.
Buy the fastest computer you can afford (and you'll still want it to render faster).
Buy Sony Vegas in a suite that includes Sound Forge last years model. You should be able to find it for maybe $50-75 on Amazon. It's fairly powerful and less expensive than After Effects, etc...
If you can swing it get Sony Vegas Pro.
If you're using After Effects you'll need to do all of the above. It's very powerful and requires a lot of horsepower. What you can do with it is awesome though.
And here's some software you might be interested in too.
Getpaint.net has a Photoshop like software for editing images. It's free. Be sure to install a lot of plugins. Especially the Photoshop file format plugin. It's not Photoshop but it's free and pretty powerful once you install the plugins.
Reaper - a Digital Audio Workstation for editing the soundtrack with various layers and effects. You can do a lot of this in Sony Vegas. This is handling many layers and adding effects. $60 plus they have trial version.
That's it for now.
Pit Row
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