How to edit MP4 files from GoPro HD Hero 3 with Pinnacle Studio

Summary: If you have any issue when importing GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio, just follow this simple guide, which offers you a quick fix for the problems with GoPro HD Hero 3 and Pinnacle Studio.

Although GoPro HD Hero series like HD Hero 3, HD Hero 2 cameras can take high quality video, but there is some problems such as not showing the video only audio, unsupported file type when playing & editing GoPro HD video in MP4 format. That is you cannot import GoPro HD MP4 video to Pinnacle Studio and most other movie editors.

Pinnacle Studio is one of the most popular video editing software owned by almost everyone, pro-alike and green hand. Although, it claims that Pinnacle Studio is compatible with the MPEG-4 files, H.264 MP4, a compressed output format is still not an ideal editing format. It can only work with AVI, WMV files perfectly. When you tried to load some MP4 files from GoPro HD Hero 3, you find it’s hard work. Got frustrated? Keep reading a brief how-to on the simple process, which guaranteed to edit your GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 clips in Pinnacle Studio smoothly.

First of all, download Brorsoft Video Converter- The program works as the best GoPro Hero 3 Video Converter. It helps you fast transcode GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 footage to Pinnacle Studio preferred formats e.g. AVI, WMV for easier editing. Plus, it supports converting all GoPro camera MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. What’s more, it’s the optimal tool for transcoding GoPro, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, etc camera or camcorder videos to kinds of NLE programs Windows Movie Maker, Avid MC, Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas and more. Well, if you meet the incompatible issue on your Mac OS X, please turn to Video Converter for Mac to resolve it. Just download it and follow the simple guide to achieve your goal.

Guide: GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio best workflow

Step 1: Add GoPro MP4 files

Install and launch the GoPro MP4 Converter, and then click "Add Files" button to import your GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 files to the software.

Tip: If you wanna combine GoPro MP4 video clips into one file, you can click the "Merge into one" box.

Step 2: Select output format

Click “Format” bar to choose "HD Video" -> "AVI HD Video (*.avi)" as output, which seems to be the best one due to the great video quality but small size. Of course, MPG, WMV are also the proper formats for Pinnacle.

Step 3: Convert GoPro MP4 to Pinnacle Studio

Click the convert button under the preview window, the converter will start encoding GoPro HD Hero 3 MP4 for importing to Pinnacle Studio.

Some more helpful features of the GoPro Camera Video Converter:

1. Settings- Click it to customize audio and video parameters Video Codec, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. Notice that you can not “convert up” video quality. If you selected HD Video in Step 2, we advise you to adjust the A/V parameters to be the same with source MP4 footage so as to bear least quality loss at proper file size.

2. Editor (next to "Add" icon)- Click to set add watermark, deinterlace, mute, volume up, trim, crop, etc.

Soon after the conversion is finished, just click "Open" button to get the convert GoPro MP4 files for edit in Pinnacle Studio 14/15/16 perfectly.

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