GoPro HD Converter for Mac

 

August 5, 2011 3:36 am / Posted by Jack Fisher to Camcorder Tips
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How to convert and edit GoPro HD Hero clips with GoPro HD Hero Converter

GoPro HD Hero series cameras such as GoPro HD Helmet Hero, Motorsports Hero, Surf Hero, HD Hero Naked, HD Hero 960 etc are loved by most friends who are crazy about adventure activities.

The GoPro HD being an "always-on" type of camera worn on your helmet, attached to your bike, surfboard or other, you usually end up with long sequences of footages you then need to edit down: cut out the unwanted parts and leave the exciting segments.

The GoPro HD wearable camera always records video in MPEG-4 and outputs its files as .MP4 compressed using the H.264 codec. Those HD MP4 files are not friendly format for playing and editing on Windows PC as well as Mac system. If you want to play them with Windows Media Player or edit them with Windows Movie Maker, Mac iMovie, Final Cut Pro, you will have to convert them to proper format. What's more, the GoPro HD conversion is essential when you expect to import them to portable video devices such as iPad, iPhone mobile phone, etc for playing; or upload them to Youtube, Facebook, Myspace or your website for share with more friends.

GoPro HD Hero Converter is the powerful software that can completely catch your above fancy. If you want to play the GoPro HD clips on Windows Movie Maker or edit GoPro HD with Windows (Live ) Movie Maker, just convert GoPro MP4 to WMV, GoPro HD Hero Converter Windows is the software you are looking for. If you want to edit GoPro HD footages on Mac OS X with Final Cut Pro, no problem, convert HD MP4 to MOV with Mac GoPro HD Converter.

Speaking of which, GoPro HD Hero Converter itself is a excellent GoPro HD video editor, by which you can clip video to small segments, merge separate parts to a whole video, crop out the black edge, apply special effect to video, set video resolution, and set video or audio parameters, etc.

GoPro HD Hero Converter also allow you to take still photos from your recorded GoPro HD videos by snapshot function.

Step by step to tell you how to convert and edit GoPro HD MP4 on Mac.

To be ready, you are suggested to download and launch GoPro HD Converter for Mac on your Mac.

Part One: Convert GoPro HD MP4 on Mac

Click Add File to load GoPro HD MP4 video to program.

Click Profile to set output format as your required format, and click Destination to give a path for output files.

Click the large green button to start the GoPro conversion.

Part Two: Edit GoPro HD MP4 on Mac

Clip GoPro HD video: click Clip to split video into small parts and save your required segments.

Edit GoPro HD video: click Edit to enter the edit window. Then click Crop, you can cut the black edges of a video; click Effect, you can apply effect (Gray, Emboss and Old Film ) to your video and set the video resolution.