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Then I restarted the app, picked some totally different overlays. Hmm, so I did the whole mess again, this time on a shorter clip. Then you preview your finished videoвЂ¦and find no data overlays show up: Then wait a little while for it to finish doing itsВ magic. Note that at no point does it actually display metrics during the above phases. Once youвЂ™re done, go ahead and hit that вЂSaveвЂ™ button. Still, itвЂ™s not too hard to tap the various points, which show up as blue dots on the left side. I wish it was more like that, something that GarminвЂ™s VIRB Edit app does. This isnвЂ™t quite as clean as the mobile app, which can automatically generate from known points and/or highlights. Next, youвЂ™ll go ahead and click on various вЂexcitingвЂ™ points in your video clips on the upper left side. Otherwise it takes forever to find a song thatвЂ™s a good fit. An improvement for Quik would be if the appВ allowed you to easily filter the music by the various moods they list.

#QUIK DESKTOP GOPRO SOFTWARE PLUS#

Just remember, the majority of songs on the GoPro music library require GoPro Plus membership (the $5/month service). ItвЂ™s an area that Garmin could significantly improve on their app, as their music library is much more limited compared to GoProвЂ™s.

It just makes my life a million times easier when I publish to YouTube that I donвЂ™t have to deal with music copyright issuesВ (YouTube may sometimes flag it, but you merely appeal the flag and GoPro automatically takes care of it). IвЂ™ve gotta say, probably the single best feature of this Quik app (aside from automatically splicing things in a semi-decent manner) is the music. First thing I do though, is pick out some music and set it to 60s. I skipped the non-moving time-lapses at the top of the mountain (as stunning as they were), and went from there. Next I selected some semi-interesting clips. You can also go into the settings and select this by default for all clips (see bottom), along with changing the data types from imperial to metric. And G-Force is pretty self explanatory.ДЄ few seconds later these will show up on the clip you selected: Whereas speed will give you speedometer, compass, and speed graph. The oddly named вЂinfo clusterвЂ™ option includes Distance/Altitude/Elevation Gain/Date & Time. Next you can select whichВ overlays you want for that clip. YouвЂ™ll notice if you select any given clip (double-click to open), youвЂ™ll get a new option along the bottom:Д¬lick on that little speed icon (the bottom group of 4 buttons- farthest right) to get started:

I keep a copy of all my footage on local hard drives, separated by action cam type/name, so it was easy for me to dump all my Hero5 Black footage IвЂ™ve ever taken into it. First up was cracking open the Quik app and importing some footage in. So I reached back to some footage I shot back in early October in the Canadian Rockies to see what I could make of it. Now one of the benefits of this change was that in theory GoPro Hero5 Black units had already been recording GPS data all along.

#QUIK DESKTOP GOPRO SOFTWARE INSTALL#

It took two attempts at the install before it seemed to take for me. Oh вЂ“ and before you move forward, triple-check that your version in Help > About on the desktop app is at 2.1 or higher. Note that this is *only* available for the GoPro Hero5 Black, as the Hero5 Session doesnвЂ™t contain GPS. It catches up to what Sony, Garmin, and others have done вЂ“ likely through using components from GoProвЂ™s acquisition of Dashware in the Spring of 2015. This allows folks with the GoPro Hero5 Black camera, which contains GPS, to add in metrics like speed, distance, vertical, and more. Today GoPro rolled out their data overlay capability to the GoPro Quik desktop suite.

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