Open Source GoPro Video Editing

2024-12-04 by Quinlan Pfiffervideography

This is a draft for now, but the important bits:

Shooting

• Always shoot 10-bit footage
• Shoot with -0.5 EV comp at least, unless it’s fantastically sunny
• Low light footage should be shot with ISO 100/400
• Use natural, flat or LOG color encoding.
• 60 FPS is good for motion.

Editing

• Use Kdenlive
• Set resolution to 3840x2160
• 30 FPS at the very least, 24 FPS if you have an ND filter and want some cool blur
• Video bitrate of at least 20 mb/s, 24 is better, 30 even better than that
• Variable bitrate probably isn’t a bad idea