I would love to hear your suggestions or advice on what you use to edit GoPro videos and upload them during trips. A laptop is the obvious choice but I was hoping for something lighter. Have any of you used a laptop? How did you keep it safe? We are doing the TAT soon and I just don't think I could keep a laptop from shaking apart lol. I was looking at tablets or chromebooks possibly. Thanks in advance!
I guess you already know that HD GoPro files are big so unless you get a tablet with a large storage capacity it's not going to work plus it takes a lot of memory to render video. I have a 10" laptop with a plug-in storage drive and after each day of riding I upload my video to the storage drive. Even with my laptop it takes a long time to edit video and usually I have better things to do on my holiday then edit video. I mostly wait till I'm home to edit video and do it on my desktop. On my trip this year to Mexico the HD video I took was 290 GB. It's about 1 1/2 hours or so of HD video to fill my 32gb Micro SD card. If you do want to edit video fast you'll need a really powerful laptop or you will be waiting for hours for it to render. You can shoot video on the lowest video setting then it would not take so long plus smaller files.
Thank you for the advice! I am thinking I may wait to edit and upload when I get home. I still need a way to store the videos. I was thinking about just using a tablet to upload the videos to my dropbox or google drive? When you took your laptop, how did you pack it?
My wife and I did a little 3 month trip this past winter through the US and Mexico. We had a large video camera a several gopros. We brought enough SD cards for the cameras to enable us to not have to delete the cards after we dumped them on the laptop. I was very concerned about the macbook rattling apart on the ride but we just packed it in a soft case from best buy and put it in our top duffle bag with our clothes in it and never had a problem. It is nice to be able to play with editing when you have a day that you are holed up in a hotel. This also let us watch the gopros and see what angles were working and which ones needed adjusted.
IF you can plug it in to your tablet and it also has a micro-sd card slot then that should be possible. Or you can copy the contents via usb from the camera onto the tablet. But does it have enough internal storage to do that? The above means that any iPads (without accesories) are a no go. No USB or micro-SD ports. Oh......and if you're going camping with no electricity, is the external HDD USB-powered, and if so does it work on 1 USB port or does it need 2? You can (and should) check it at home before leaving. I use a Windows tablet to do what you want, a Dell Venue 11 Pro. I have an attachable keyboard with it, which is easy for editing and also protects the screen of the tablet when packed in my tailpack. If I were you I'd look into the Asus Transformer Book T100, with the optional keyboard with 500gb SSD. Also a Windows hybrid. You'll have to find out if it's fast enough to edit videos. Edit Looks like it is.
I use one of these for my iPad .... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-IN1-USB...K_iPad_Tablet_Accessories&hash=item486154506e Works well for short term storage.
Look into a Lenovo Yoga 13. Its a tablet/laptop combo that should have enough processing power to do what you want. Touchscreen and long battery life and it has an SSD so the weakest part of the computer(hard drive) is replaced with a solid state drive. Spend $100 on an external hard drive about 2TB in size for plenty of storage for video and photos. Other than that a 14" laptop would be the best. Will you be staying in motels or camping only? I have an original iPad with the camera connection kit that lets me copy photos and such to the iPad but with only 64gb that is not alot of gopro video. like someone else said already, you could just buy a bunch of 16gb sd cards or 32gb and swap them out.
I've just started with the GoPro too. Figure to spend 3X the time riding on editing.... Also a finished 8-10 minutes of video takes up to 700mb so a big hard drive is a given!
It's torture editing video on an outdated computer. Now imagine working on a tablet/whatever that is even slower.
Good class 10 64gb SD cards are $35-40. I plan on buying 5-10 for a long trip. Cheaper(&smaller&less complicated) than a laptop w/ sd reader, external hdd, etc.
We like to post pics every evening if possible, so a laptop worked for us. I like two backups for pics so the external hard drive was my choice. Here is what we used for a 36 day trip from Arkansas to Alaska and back. RKA tank bag [/URL][/IMG] ASUS 10 inch notebook, 500 gig hard drive [/URL][/IMG] Foam cut for camera and external hard drive, 2 TB [/URL][/IMG]
I just picked up a Hero 3+Black and am planning on heading up to Nova Scotia/Newfoundland here at the end of July. How much video time can be stored on a 64GB card? Or is a 32 GB sufficient? I've seen enough where it might be impractical to lug around a computer, as I see the iPad Air that I own is essentially useless for storing/editing the footage. So I guess I will plan to buy a new computer and edit when I get back home in August. I plan on using the bacpac for viewing the footage...will that work well? I've got the original gPro battery and just picked up two Wasabis, will that be enough battery power considering I plan on mostly camping in Newfoundland and electrical hookups might be limited to sitting in Tim Hortons and such. Any thoughts on memory cards and batteries... Thanks, Chris
64gb = 6-7hrs 1080p@30fps. I say don't bother with the LCD bacpac. Use your iPhone/Android/iPad to view the footage. The GoPro's wifi will function as a hotspot, your phone/ipad will connect to it, the gopro app will let you watch what the camera has recorded. Expect 1.5-2.5hrs on a battery with wifi turned off.... less with wifi on.
I have a 32gb card and the battery backpack and the card is filed with a little battery left. 3 to 4 hours.
Ok, here is a little bit different question. I am leaving on a solo trip on the TAT in a month and plan on using a GoPro and my Olympus OMD-EM5 for photos. I have used the Ipad mini in the past to blog using pictures from the camera and Iphone, but not GoPro. I was planning to do short video updates for some of my blog as well as short clips of the trail. I have used Imovie to edit on the Ipad (just trimming more than anything as I won't have the desire to edit a lot after long days on the trail). Here is the problem, my blogsite, Wordpress, doesn't support MP4 and I can't find an app to convert the movie to jpg or MP4A or some of the other formats. Does anyone know of a good app that can convert short clips on the Ipad? DH
Well, JPG = picture, MP4A = audio, so you won't find a way to convert a movie to those formats. Just upload the videos to Youtube (the iOS Youtube App will publish any video on the camera roll to youtube) then just paste the youtube video link into your blog. Wordpress will likely automatically embed the video into your blog so it'll be right there as if it were a part of the blog. You can set the video as "unlisted" on youtube so it doesn't show up to the general public if you wish.
Dang I KNEW jpg was photo, wasn't thinking when I typed that. I was looking at the acceptable formats on Wordpress and just pulled the first one off the list when I was typing. Good suggestion. I will just do that as it only adds one step.