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De-shaking, editing frustrations gopro.

Posted by Vince Hogg on March 16, 2013 at 8:48am

Hi.

There must be thousands of people doing exactly what I am trying to do so am seeking advice here.

 

What I would like to do-

 

-Download the MP4 from my gopro (hero3, using 1080p 5-fps at the moment).

-Use some software to reduce the shakes.

-Perhaps trim/join add music etc.

-Save in a format of my choice.

 

Where its going wrong-

-Im using virtualdub with deshaker. Seems to be quite good and I expect I can improve the settings.

There appears to be no choice to save except AVI. It is saving an AVI file 10x the original MP4 size. WMP will play it but most other editing stuff gives errors.

-Handbrake says its a protected file.

-VLC says CFHD ‘no way’.

-Mercalli V2 stops halfway and closes down.

 

What did I do before computers?

 

Any advice welcome.

 

 

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  • james mccallum July 18, 2013 at 8:11am

    You could try Mpeg streamclip for conversion?

  • steve viper July 17, 2013 at 10:11pm
    There's a program called AppGeeker video converter that you can use to convert files to other format with much smaller sizes (among other things)
     
     
    I use it to convert videos from AVI to iPad format.
     
    You can use to to shrink your video size as well as format it for web upload, and there is also a edit feature, pretty basic, and should work for what you need. - file merge/ split, trim, crop, etc.

    Please keep in mind everytime you convert/render/compress you lose some data. Generally, the larger file size, the better video quality.
     
    Been using it for a while now.
  • Jeff Zika March 22, 2013 at 8:16am

    There is a workflow required for Virtualdub deshaking and you are doing on a few of the steps. These are what we do:

    1. Convert the video to divx or avi raw from out-of-camera format using WinX HD Converter.

    2. Run Virtualdub/Deshaker process with pass 2 output to raw AVI

    3. Convert from raw AVI to MP4 (or whatever works best with your editor of choice).

    4. Edit the video in Premier or After Affects.

    5. Encode using Adobe encoder to final video format for publication or upload. 

    FWIW, all the cache files for all adobe products and Virtualdub are on SSD drives. This takes a while to do but using SSD helps a LOT. Also, all of our editing systems are i7-980x or 2011bus systems with 18+gb ram. Virtualdub will run in 4gb (barely) but After Affects won't.

    Good luck, JAZCAM

  • weelian soh March 19, 2013 at 6:59pm

    Hi Vince, I'm also using VirtualDub and Deshaker to remove the shakes and bumps from my GoPro hero3 Black Edition and here's the result.

    When I got the GoPro Hero 3 BE, it provided a very good software - GoPro Cineform studio that does the conversion of the MP4 into AVI. http://gopro.com/software-app/cineform-studio .I believe you can download it free after providing your email contact.

    I have purchased and used the CineForm Neo Scene previously before Cineform was bought over by GoPro and their codec is very robust, though the resulting AVIs are fairly large.

    With the Cineform Studio Codecs installed, you should be able to open it in VirtualDub. I'm very pleased with the results I got.

  • Luke Nyhof March 18, 2013 at 5:31pm

    You could try using FormatFactory (free) to change the video codec to a more efficient one to reduce the file size, and for removing the camera shakes I use a plugin called Mercalli V2 (not so free). Fairly decent results, just glad work has the license :)

  • criro1999 March 17, 2013 at 6:58pm

    the best result I obtained with Virtualdub is when no part of heli or plane is visible on the movie.

    If you have visible parts from heli or plane (motors and props, wings, etc), Virtualdub deshaking process will try to make those static objects as reference and the process will not have the best result. Try first to crop the movie to hide the static objects (heli or plane part) and then apply the deshaking process.

    See below one of my test with Virtualdub with a diy quad h-frame with  GoPro Hero2

    https://vimeo.com/55280289

  • Vince Hogg March 17, 2013 at 7:46am

    Just got one uploaded

  • Moderator
    David Anders March 17, 2013 at 2:25am

    Hi Vince,

    How is your GoPro attached to the copter?  Is it on top, or underneath?  I don't have any shaking at all with mine and it's mounted underneath - held with Velcro at either end of the camera, not along the side of the camera.

    As for software, Adobe Premiere Elements is just fantastic for what you're wanting to do - and it's not that expensive.  You don't have to worry about converting anything to anything (and potentially lose quality) - it just does it all.  You can then export to anything at all and then upload to vimeo/youtube quite easily.

    An example of my GoPro footage is here:

     

  • Teodor Yantcheff March 17, 2013 at 1:42am

    Try this :

     1. Install mp4cam2avi and convert the mp4 files from the go pro to AVIs. These you can now open in vdub

     2. Install the x264vfw codec.

     3. Open the AVIs in vdub, apply whatever filters you want, including deshaker. Save compressing with x264.

     4. Done.

  • Developer
    leonardthall March 16, 2013 at 6:35pm

    Hi Vince,

    Here are my 720P processing files for Virtual Dub and Deshaker and the Barrel distortion filter to remove the fish eye.

    It is a two pass process that then saves at the end. You can use other codecs to compress the video as well. I use the K-Lite codec pack. There are some issues with some compression techniques that VirtualDub can't use because you must pay for them.

    This video shows the results I achieved.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDKlv6yVtxA

    GoProProc1.vcf

    GoProProc2.vcf

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