GoPro CineForm Studio Manual - Great Lakes Gliding Club of Toronto
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1. FRAMING CONTROLS 00 05 01 11 Q G 2 HDYNAMIC B KEYFRAMES f TA GOPROOS2 x SAVE TO The Edit Workspace A The Import Converted Clips List works exactly like the Import New Files List works in Step 1 You can work with GoPro CineForm video clips you converted in Step 1 or you can import GoPro CineForm clips that you ve converted previously that are stored on your computer s hard drive B Use the Remove Clip and Clear All buttons to delete one or all clips in the Import Converted Clips List C The clip you currently have selected will appear in the Player PAGE GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO D Move through the clip using the PLAY FF REW buttons or scrub or shuttle through the video using the playback slider moving the playhead forward and back in time manually Below the player window on the right the full frame button will show your video full frame on your computer display hiding your working interface until you choose to return to it by using the Esc key Adjust the audio volume using the slider control E Playback View and External Display controls PLAYBACK This controls the playback quality of your GoPro CineForm converted clips in the player The default is set for half resolution This does not affect the quality of the clip itself but lowering the playback resolution will allow smoother playback VIEW Control how your GoPro CineForm 3D clip2. as the destination for the clips you transfer from your camera We will refer GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO to this as the project folder from here forward The video files from your GoPro camera may be large and the files you convert and make changes to including GoPro CineForm 3D clips can get quite large depending on the length of your footage so create this folder on a drive with enough free space Second open the SD card that is now available on your computer via the camera or card reader and locate the DCIM folder Click and drag the complete contents out of the DCIM folder and into the project folder you made in your computer If you are using the 3D Hero system you will drag the contents of each camera s DCIM folder you ll see folder names like 100G one labeled ending in 3D_L and the other 3D_R into your project folder PAGE 4 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO Vour GoPro Hero camera is a unique device It records high definition video that looks great but vet creates a very small data file The way it does this is through creating a video clip that is highly compressed Image compression is used in many types of computer and digital device images like JPEG files from your mobile phone or camera Most DSLR cameras that shoot high definition video as well as many other video cameras create similar files When you edit your video clips together in your favorite video editing software your chosen applica
3. by selecting the source clip and selecting Copy from the Edit menu and then selecting your destination clips and selecting Paste Working with 3D Inside GoPro CineForm Studio When you re working with 3D clips you are actually working with two slightly offset 2D clips which create the illusion of depth the same way your two eyes do In fact another name for 3D footage in some parts of the production industry is Stereo referring to the two visual channels one left and one right 3D footage is created with two cameras two physical cameras or two cameras in a special fixed rig like a GoPro 3D housing or there are even single camera bodies that contain two cameras and lenses in one unit creating two separate images or video clips Controlling the 3D effect in your footage is done through controlling convergence or the way the two images are aligned 3D footage shot with two cameras on an adjustable rig will often be managed on location by a crew member called a convergence puller who controls the way the two cameras are aligned for each shot but in other cases the camera operator will control convergence inside a dual camera device or you may have a fixed convergence device like GoPro s 3D rig No matter how the footage was shot adjusting the convergence between the two visual angles is almost always needed at some point to achieve the best possible 3D effect and GoPro CineForm Studio gives you the tools to make those
4. queue PAGE 9 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO J To convert the entire list of clips you have queued click on Convert All K The Conversion Details panel can be hidden or revealed with the triangle on the right to give you an overview of the settings you ve created for the clip selected in the Conversion List panel CONVERSION DETAILS 00 00 00 00 00 08 55 38 Grahams Car MP4 Grahams Car avi QUALITY MEDIUM AMES 1280 x 720 FRAME SL 1280 x 720 59 94 FRAME RATE 23 976 LEFT FLIPPEI NO CONVERT ALL If you wish to make a change to the settings of a particular clip double click on the clip in the Conversion List to bring it back to the player window PAGE 10 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO STEP 2 EDIT In the EDIT room you have the ability to make color and framing changes to your converted clips as well as adjustments to the convergence of your 3D clips You can also view your clips in 2D or a variety of 3D modes on your computer display Finally after you re done making adjustments or editing your video you can return to GoPro CineForm Studio to output your clips as MP4 files for easy playback in other devices or uploading to a web video site GoPro CINEFORMSTUDIO IMPORT CONVERTED CLIPS GOPROOE2 AVI VIEW 20 00 11 08 07 299 fr EXT DISPLAY e 3D CONVERGENCE CONTROLS HORIZONTAL KEVFRAMES 8 WHITE BALANCE TEMP TINT KEYFRAMES 8 IMAGE CONTROLS EXPOSURE CONTRAST SATURATION KEYFRAMES
5. CoPro CINEFORMS UDIO mu H GoPro CineForm Studio Manual GoPro HERO and their respective logos are trademarks of Woodman Labs Inc in the United States and other countries Copyright 2011 Woodman Labs Inc All rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS INSTALLATION OVERVIEW WORKING INSIDE THE STUDIO STEP 1 IMPORT amp CONVERT STEP 2 EDIT GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO GoPro CineForm Studio 1 1 User Manual INSTALLATION After verifying that your system meets the requirements to run GoPro CineForm Studio and downloading the correct installer for your Mac or Windows computer launch the installer by double clicking and accept the licensing terms to install the software on your system NOTE The default location the installer chooses will be the most appropriate location based on your system Do not choose to modify this property unless you are a very experienced user and have a clear reason to do so OVERVIEW WORKING INSIDE THE STUDIO GoPro CineForm Studio is divided into two main areas that define a two step workflow The first step is to Import your footage and Convert it to a GoPro CineForm file or GoPro CineForm 3D file The GoPro CineForm file can be adjusted for color and framing in the Edit section in Step 2 The adjustments made inside the Edit area of the software are created as metadata and saved along with the media file No actual changes are made to the file and anything you do
6. GoPro CineForm Studio the Import New Files panel is to the left in the interface Use the blue Import New Files button to launch the Open File dialog box Navigate to your project folder and choose the clips you want to work with When working with GoPro 3D clips select only the left or right clip s and GoPro CineForm Studio will automatically match each synchronized file pair If you choose to work with all the files in your project folder simply dragging the folder and dropping it on the Import pane will import all the GoPro media in the folder and will automatically synchronize any 3D clip pairs If you want to import a file that is part of a 3D pair but prevent it from being automatically paired right click Windows or control click Mac on the Import New Files button or in an open area in the Import List pane and manually select individual left or right video files for import NOTE In order to synchronize 3D pairs the files must be GoPro 3D clips shot on GoPro Hero HD cameras PAGE 7 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO While working with your Import List you can remove a clip from the list it won t be deleted from the computer by selecting the clip and using the Remove Clip button at the bottom of the list or you can simply right click Windows or control click Mac on the clip directly and choose Remove Clip from the options To clear the Import list entirely use the Clear All bu
7. adjustments PAGE 14 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO Anaglyph Red Cyan View Mode Difference View Mode Using Difference View shows quite clearly that the nose of the jet is closest to the screen plane as the edges in this area of the image shows the fewest details indicating that the two images are most tightly aligned in that area Typically the part of the frame that is aligned cleanly where you can view the 3D footage and not see the fringing caused by the visual offset between the two visual perspectives in Onion Skin or Anaglyph View Modes is the content the viewer will sense is at the screen face You can adjust what is at that screen plane through adjustment of the 3D Convergence Controls gt Horizontal slider By moving the slider to the left the effect is to move the content away from the viewer and siding it right will bring the content forward Keep in mind that you want to avoid your foreground object touching or being cut off by the edge of the screen when possible to maximize the effect You can further change the character of your 3D footage when you use the Framing Controls gt H Zoom and H Dynamic to add to your image adjustments You can change the View Modes to assist you in making these adjustments PAGE I5
8. can be revised or completely reversed at any time These non destructive changes are a feature unique to the GoPro CineForm file type By converting your footage to GoPro CineForm files and keeping them in that state while you use your favorite video editing program to cut them together while you make color and framing and 3D alignment changes in GoPro CineForm Studio you keep your options open until the very end of your project Once your clip is ready or you ve edited your GoPro CineForm footage in your video editing software and exported a GoPro CineForm master clip you can export your final video to an MP4 file for sharing or to upload to the web PAGE 3 Your GoPro HD Hero camera creates video files in the DCIM directory on the inserted SD card If you are using a 3D Hero system utilizing two HD Hero cameras in the GoPro 3D Housing each camera will create a video file and they will be labeled as left and right using an L or an R in the file names You can access your GoPro video clips on the SD card from the camera in two ways 1 Connect the GoPro camera with the SD card inserted to your Windows or Mac computer using a USB cable turn on the camera to have it be available to open from the computer or Remove the SD card and use an SD card reader device either installed in your computer or an external card reader device First make a new directory or folder on your computer s hard drive to serve
9. evised without affecting the original image until you re ready to export the finished video GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO When you finish editing inside your video editing application you can export a master video file in GoPro s CineForm format to preserve the quality and load the master file into the Edit interface in Studio to export an MPEG4 file for upload to the World Wide Web or playback on a computer GoPro CineForm Intermediate editing Exporta Master Quality GoPro CineForm File from your editing software Convert to Make adjustments to GoPro CineForm File color framing etc Edit GoPro CineForm Files See your changes update in your favorite editing software instantly inside your editor Export to MPEGA for easv viewing or upload to the web You can take your clips through GoPro CineForm Studio to perfect their color and or 3D settings and export them for viewing uploading directly or you can use Studio with your favorite editing application to create longer movies from multiple clips create a GoPro CineForm master clip and bring it back to Studio for export to MP4 PAGE 6 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO STEP 1 IMPORT amp CONVERT GoPro CINEFORMSTUDIO IMPORT NEW FILES E CONVERSION LIST mm MM TE N GOPROO02 avi 2D c 00013636 1024 Mi 2D 00 01 19 54 A A C D 00 01 26 15 L A TE GOPRO002 ADD CLIP TO gt CONVERSION LIST The Import and Convert Workspace A When you launch
10. format designed to feed specific 3D displays or television monitors where the two eyes are scaled into a screen split left and right which the television then displays as a 3D image FREE VIEW can be useful for editing or adjusting your 3D clip as it shows the left and right eyes in the proper aspect ratio in the player PAGE 12 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO OPEN GL PAGE FLIP 3D displays your 3D clip with the left and right eye frames being shown sequentially when you have an NVIDIA Quadro display card installed in your computer that supports this display mode EXT DISPLAY When feeding an external 3D display from your computer choose the proper display type from this menu F Use the 3D Convergence Controls to adjust the relative positioning between your left and right eye within your GoPro CineForm 3D clip to change the feeling of depth and distance Use the White Balance controls to adjust overall color balance of your video clip Usually the way that white is displayed indicates the type of light that illuminates the scene For a clip with some white in the shot itself you can simply click on PICK Windows or the eyedropper Mac and then click on the white in the player window and the shot will automatically balance based on that You can manually adjust the color balance using the TEMP and TINT slider controls and of course keyframe your adjustments over time The Image Controls are used to change
11. nal MPEG4 files through any color adjustments you make during editing This leads many users to keep GoPro CineForm Studio open while they re editing their footage in another application as they can click back and forth between applications making adjustments to their footage in Studio and clicking back to their editing application to continue to cut their clips together while the adjustments they made are updated immediately upon their return to editing The way GoPro CineForm Studio makes these changes to your GoPro CineForm clips is by saving your changes made in the Edit interface of the software as metadata You may have heard this term before and the typical explanation is It s data about the data A better way to define it is that when you make framing or color or 3D alignment changes in Studio you are saving a description of how to play the video back and not actually altering the clip itself Your video editing application simply plays the footage back with your adjustments even if you made them during an editing session by moving between your editing software and GoPro CineForm Studio The power of using metadata is being able to make changes and then change your mind without actually affecting the original footage in a way that would affect the image quality You can always go back to the original footage and start over if you need to because no matter what you adjusted in Studio it can be reversed reset or r
12. nd click on IN or OUT to reset to a new point NOTE You can also set In and OUT points by using the I and O keys If your clip was recorded upside down check the Rotate Flip box left of the file name field to correct this G Click on Advanced Settings to access the conversion settings for your selected clip PAGE 8 GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO M Advanced Sette Frame Size Use this setting to convert your GoPro clip to a different frame size than you recorded originally The frame size you recorded will be designated by the word Source Choosing any other frame size will cause your clip to be scaled to the new frame size when you convert it FRAME SIZE MAKE 16 9 FRAME RATE Source 29 97fps Make 16 9 This check box will appear when you select a new frame size of 1080p or smaller and the source video is 4 3 to give you the option to scale the frame size to fill a FILE FORMAT AVI 16 9 frame AUDIO SOURCE Left Camera Frame Rate Use this option to change the clip s frame rate during conversion A common use of this option might be to take a clip that MELLE EIUS is recorded at 59 94 frames per second and designate a new frame rate of 29 97 or even lower frames per second to create smooth slow motion QUALITY Medium Audio Source Windows only When you create a 3D clip from a pair of clips you can choose to use the audio from the left camera or the right camera using this opti
13. on For a standard 2D clip the default setting is left File Format GoPro CineForm files can be wrapped as AVI files which are used on Windows computers or MOV files which would typically be used on a Mac Quality The GoPro CineForm file can be created using the quality level you choose The default is Medium which will be a very high quality video file You can choose High quality which may or may not end up creating a clear visual quality difference If you know you need to make significant changes to color in a clip the extra quality might be beneficial but it will create a larger file and may take longer to process when you choose to convert Even the Low quality setting is a relatively high quality video file and many users may be quite satisfied with it and the smaller files will take up less space on your hard drive If you wish to process more than one clip in your Import List with the same settings check the Remember Settings box before closing the Advanced Settings window H When you ve completed your conversion settings for your clip you can specify a name for the converted file in the File Name text field By default the directory where your clips are stored will be the destination directory but you can choose a different destination using the Change Directory button below the File name text field I When you ve prepared a clip for conversion click Add Clip to Conversion List to add it to the
14. s are displayed on your computer LEFT EYE RIGHT EYE display only one of the two video clips in your 3D clip ANAGLYPH modes are for use with colored glasses tinting each video clip slightly so that the colored filters in the glasses separate the two images creating the 3D effect LINE INTERLEAVED takes the two eyes and outputs each one on every other horizontal LEFT EYE LEFT EYE RIGHT EYE ANAGLYPH REDCYAN ANAGLYPH REDCYANBW ANAGLYPH REDCYANOPTIMIZED ANAGLYPH AMBERBLUE ANAGLYPH AMBERBLUEBW ANAGLYPH GREENMAGENTA ANAGLYPH GREENMAGENTA BW LINE INTERLEAVED ONION SKIN DIFFERENCE OVER UNDER SIDE BY SIDE FREE VIEW OpenGL PAGE FLIP 3D line This is for use with certain polarized passive 3D displays and polarized glasses ONION SKIN displays your 3D clip with the left and right eye superimposed together in normal color This mode can be very helpful when you are changing the alignment between the two eyes DIFFERENCE is another way to view alignment by viewing only the parts of the two images that are different You may choose this as an alternative in cases where the images are too detailed or busy to properly adjust in Onion Skin mode OVER UNDER is a 3D image format used to feed some displays and television sets where the left and right eye are scaled into one frame split vertically then properly combined into a 3D image by the television set itself SIDE BY SIDE is another scaled
15. the playback slider 2 Click on the to add a keyframe 3 Set the adjustment 4 Move the playhead and repeat Clicking on RESET will remove all the keyframes from the clip You can make multiple keyframes without changing the adjustment values which would hold your adjustment in between the identical GOPRO CINEFORM STUDIO stretch occurs in the composition using the H Dynamic slider Check Horizontal and or IBUSSULG U 2 2 e e L T MM CE Vertical Flip to reverse your image in either or BESEPAUETUIDPEETITIA Som Deo both directions adjustments in other areas NOTE To reset any adjustment control to the default or original state click Mac or double click Windows on the name of the control Temp Tint or Exposure etc J The Reset All Windows or Circle back button Mac at the bottom of the list returns all controls to default and returns the clip to its original settings K When you are done making adjustments or have edited your GoPro CineForm footage in your editing program and exported a GoPro CineForm master file of your edited video you can export your clip to share or upload to the web Choose a destination directory and a file name and click on Export MP4 Windows or choose File gt Export or CMD E Mac to create a file appropriate for a video site or playback on another computer or device NOTE You may apply all the settings from one clip to one or more other clips
16. the color and tone of your video Use the Exposure control to adjust for images that are too bright or dark and the Contrast control adjusts the relative definition between bright and dark areas of the image Saturation controls the vibrance of the colors in the shot You can change the composition of your shot using the Framing Controls Zoom Horizontal and Vertical positioning slider controls can be helpful if you would like to crop out something along the edges of a shot or zoom in on a 4 3 image to fill a 16 9 frame Add or remove a tilted horizon by adjusting the Rotation slider You can adjust the horizontal scaling of the image using the H Zoom control and adjust where the PAGE 13 KEYFRAMES are available for 3D Convergence White Balance Image and Framing Controls Keyframing refers to the capability to make adjustments that vary over time Pressing the button in the lower right of each control set enables you to set up an adjustment for that control set at the frame where the playhead is parked Moving the playhead allows you to click on and add another keyframe and change the adjustment within that control set with those settings smoothly changing in between keyframes Note that there is a Keyframe control for each control set and thev work independentiv of each other You ll need to set a keyframe for each control set vou want to change at each frame 1 Position the playhead on
17. tion could be anything from Windows Movie Maker or iMovie up to Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro to name a few part of your computer s job in playing the footage back is the decompression you might think of it as reconstruction of the video clip so you can see the full frame when playing and editing the video clips Your camera s files are easy enough to play back in most media players but cutting them together in an editing application or altering their color or other characteristics can stress your computer and give you less than ideal results Converting your camera footage to GoPro CineForm files makes a copy of your original footage that results in a much larger file size make sure you have enough hard drive space but they actually improve the responsiveness of your computer and your editing software because the files are designed to work with your computer much more efficiently than MPEG4 With GoPro 3D content conversion to a GoPro CineForm file keeps the two clips that provide the left eye and right eye view in one file allowing you to adjust alignment and you can simply edit them like any other video file Inside GoPro s CineForm Studio you can make color framing or 3D alignment or viewing adjustments to your GoPro CineForm files and these changes will be reflected in the same footage inside your editing software GoPro CineForm files preserve image and color quality better than your camera s origi
18. tton at the bottom of the Import List C The Player shows the clip you currently have selected D The Conversion List panel shows the files you have queued up to be converted to GoPro CineForm or GoPro CineForm 3D files E To remove clips from the Conversion List use the Remove Clip button or right click Windows or control click Mac on the clip in the list and select Remove Clip from the options to remove the selected clip The Clear All button will clear all clips from the Conversion List F Move through the clip using the PLAY FF REW buttons or scrub or shuttle through the video using the playback slider moving the playhead forward and backward in time manually Below the player window on the right the full frame button will show your video full frame on your computer display hiding your working interface until you choose to return to it by using the Esc key Adjust the audio volume using the slider control If you only wish to convert a portion of your video you can set the trim points of the selected portion by setting an IN and OUT points Play or scrub to the point in the clip you choose as the IN point and click on the IN button below the player window then play or scrub to your desired end point and click on OUT When there is either an IN or an OUT point selected for a clip the IN and or OUT buttons will be blue If you wish to change these points simply play or scrub to the new point a
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