Gopro people - please help!

[Mike R]

I've recently started using my Gopro for videos instead of my Flip and am having problems uploading the clips on to YouTube. With my Flip, all you do is down load it from the camera straight to the computer and from there you can just upload it directly to YouTube.

I've tried doing the same to the Gopro vids and it keeps coming up with an error message (after spending 8 hours uploading each time). I have tried saving it as both an AVI and an MOV file and it makes no difference, I get the same error message each time (that it has failed to upload due to being the incorrect format). It is only a 9 minute video and has been run through the Gopro software to "invert" it and save it in "medium", which makes it 3.3GB.

So what am I doing wrong / what to I need to do to be able to upload it?

Please help LOL!

[Mark CSL]

Use the Flip

[Mike R]

But I have some footage that is already recorded (from the 'ring trip), that I want to upload .

[adem.csl]

I use software called handbrake!works well

[Neil M]

It's all to do with the "angle of dangle"
It has to be a file format which is supported, so it may need to be converted, before uploading. Good luck!
https://support.google.com/youtube/t...88402?hl=en-GB

http://readwrite.com/2013/06/14/hand...oeNOMWF1Ei7lXw

[Mike R]

Originally Posted by Neil M

It's all to do with the "angle of dangle"
It has to be a file format which is supported, so it may need to be converted, before uploading. Good luck!
https://support.google.com/youtube/t...88402?hl=en-GB

http://readwrite.com/2013/06/14/hand...oeNOMWF1Ei7lXw

As you can see, both MOV and AVI files are supported....

[Mike R]

Originally Posted by adem.csl

I use software called handbrake!works well

Can you tell me what you have to do to the file from the Gopro to allow it to be uploaded? Just confused as to why it can't be loaded directly?

[race.it]

If u send it to me ill upload it for you I find Vimeo simpler but the file size is poss what YouTube is moaning about, you may have to reduce quality

[Mike R]

Originally Posted by race.it

If u send it to me ill upload it for you I find Vimeo simpler but the file size is poss what YouTube is moaning about, you may have to reduce quality

I really want it uploaded onto my own channel . Do you know what the maximum size is then?

[0836whimper]

Hi Mike,

If you are on a Mac, it's pretty straightforward :

Plug in GoPro via USB lead
Open imovie
Import files using import option (GoPro files open up automatically)
Create new project and edit as required - optional
Then..then rather than use the inbuilt 'share' with Youtube (which doesn't seem to work with the GoPro files), I share and 'Export using Quicktime' to a location on the hard-drive.
The I drag and drop into the YouTube 'upload' window.

Guide here for specific video/audio settings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogWlr_W2DSU

I think the trick with the above is that the import into imovie process converts it into a native file format - and a much smaller file size - so on a Windows machine I am guessing the same applies, use some movie editing software to import (Windows Movie Maker, Vimeo ?) and then create an output file that is importable into Youtube.

Handbrake can also do the conversion.

I am not sure about file size limits on youtube, it seems to happily take 15 min HD movies, but I always go via imovie which I think makes the files smaller.

Hope this helps,

Mark