GoPro Studio 2 User Manual

GoPro Studio 2.0 
User Manual for Windows Operating Systems  

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................................  1 
What is GoPro Studio? ...............................................................................................................................................................................................  1 
Learning Resources...

 
Updating HERO3+ Camera Software  ......................................................................................................................................................................  18
 
Updating HERO3+ and HERO4 Camera Software from a Memory Card Reader ..................................................................................................  19 
IMPORTING MEDIA FROM YOUR GOPRO CAMERA .........................................................................  20 
USING GOPRO...

 
GoPro CineForm Codec Settings .........................................................................................................................................................................  74
 
Moving GoPro CineForm Files to Other Computers ............................................................................................................................................  79 
USING GOPRO STUDIO WITH 3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
INTRODUCTION 
 
Welcome to GoPro Studi o, a video editing application that makes it easy to create 
professional -quality  videos from your GoPro content.   
 
What is GoPro Studio?  
 
GoPro Studio makes it easy to import your GoPro media from your camera to your 
computer and create professional -quality videos. W e’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,...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
•   Supports GoPro, Canon, Nikon and other constant frame rate H.264 mp4 and 
.mov
4 formats  
 1Compatible with HERO4 cameras only.  2Sold separately.  3Compatible with HERO4 and HERO 
cameras only.  4.mov files are not supported in Windows 8.  
 
 
Learning Resources  
 
GoPro offers several ways to help you learn how to use GoPro Studio. There’s the User 
Manual that you are reading now  and an online support 
website,  gopro.com/studiosupport
.  
 
User Manual  
 
The...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
Installing GoPro Studio 
 
GoPro Studio is installed by launching the installer file that can be downloaded 
from http://shop.gopro.com/softwareandapp
. 
 
1.  Verify that your computer  meets the minimum system requirements  for your 
operating system and hardware.  System requirements can be found 
at  http://shop.gopro.com/softwareandapp
. 
2.   After the file has finished downloading, you’ll see the installer file. Double- click on 
it (it should be called,...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
UNDERSTANDING THE WORKFLOW  
 
There are two wa ys  of  us ing  GoPro Studio. The first way is as a s tand-alone, start -to -
finish  video editing application. The second way is to use GoPro Studio  in tandem with 
other  3
rd party  video  editing applications  such as Adobe After  Effects, Adobe Premiere 
Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and others . This User Manual will discuss each of these 
workflows in separate chapters . T he  two  workflows are  as follows : 
 
Using...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
Why Convert to the GoPro CineForm Format? 
 
The first step in any GoPro Studio  workflow is to convert your source files  into the GoPro 
CineForm format.  T his is very important and t here are several reasons to do this . 
 
A ll consumer -level cameras and many  professional -level cameras record  in highly 
compressed video formats designed to capture large amounts of data very quickly and 
save  that data  onto an SD card or other portable  media format in as small a...

GoPro Studio 2.5 User Manual 
THE GOPRO STUDIO IMPORTER  
 
After GoPro Studio has been installed, a new icon appears in  the Windows System Tray 
(this is the area next to your system clock down in the lower right -hand corner of your 
screen). This is called the  GoPro Studio Importer and it replaces the GoPro CineForm 
Status Viewer system tray application from previous versions of GoPro Studio.  
 
Clicking (or right -clicking) on the system tray icon will reveal a pop- up menu with a list of...