Shooting GoPro footage on the fly is a cinch. But editing? Not so much. That鈥檚 why the company聽聽to make creating watchable videos聽a whole lot easier.
We鈥檝e always liked GoPro Studio, the company's聽desktop editing platform.聽Now, anybody with a WiFi-enabled GoPro (the ones that can sync to iOS or Android phones like the Hero4 and Session)聽can yank footage directly from the camera to a聽phone,聽then use the聽scissor icon in the company's new app聽to make simple聽cuts and create a basic highlight real. When the footage is cut, users can upload the clip to聽any social platform, including聽Instagram and聽Facebook, or send it via e-mail.聽
The new functionality pairs nicely with GoPro鈥檚 鈥渢ag鈥 function, also available on聽the Hero4 and Session,聽which lets you save the best cuts in your raw video with a tap of a button on the camera. The tagged footage then appears highlighted when you review what you shot.
In addition to the new editing functionality, GoPro says cloud storage and automated editing鈥攚here the camera chooses the best clips for you鈥攁re coming聽soon. At the moment,聽software like will pull clips together based on an increase in g-force sensed by the GoPro's聽accelerometer, but that doesn鈥檛 always catch footage you might want. It nails your backflip off a cliff into powder (or your wipeout), but has a tendency to miss slower action. The TomTom Bandit action cam聽offers similar features, but聽has similar drawbacks. , a new POV camera, seems to have moved automated editing forward by聽trying to sense action using聽things like sound and聽heart-rate.
Hopefully, GoPro鈥檚 version of the automatic edit builds on these developments.