Adobe Premiere & GoPro Protune Tutorial

GoPro Hero cameras generally do a great job at capturing fantastic action scenes. But, it is what you do with your footage afterwards that truly counts. You just have to make use of the GoPro Protune Adobe Premiere tools to achieve amazing results. It is a case of simply pulling the clips of your GoPro and getting to work.

Do you want to learn how to import your video footage, correct the various distortions as well as color correct the footage, then output the completed project. It should take you about 17 minutes to pull off. Let's give it a go.

Importing Your Footage

The first thing you need to do is to import your footage to your editing tool. Only then can you start tinkering with the composition of your video. This is how you do it.

Our suggestion is to shoot your video at a resolution of 1080p (Standard HP format), which is generally at either 30 or 60 frames per second. This way you can crop your production without losing too much detail. Keep in mind that a higher resolution will result in more pixels and more detail. While a higher frame rate will ensure a smoother video. This is particularly useful when you go for a lot of action to ensure nothing is left out.

Now it is your turn to actually import your footage.

Here are the steps:

* First, you want to plug in your camera and insert the memory card for you to access the footage
* Take the videos and drag them into your working directory of the GoPro Protune Adobe Premiere. This is the easiest way to import your footage where it is being copied into your work area that only takes a few minutes
* Once it is all there, you can disconnect the camera

Now you will create your video composition.

This is how you do it:

* First, you select new project and give it a name
* Select a location for it
* Leave the rest of the setting on default and hit OK
* Now you will have a blank project where you can start assembling your composition
* On the left side you will have your project browser where you will see all your clips that happen to be part of your composition
* At the bottom you will have your timeline where you can create sequences of your video clips
* The top right will feature your program monitor

Now with that out of the way, it is time to import your content.

To do that:
* You go to file, scroll down and select import
* Choose the media clips you want from your file system
* Then drag it and drop it right into Adobe Premiere where you will start working with it

Now, you need to create a sequence which acts as a container where you add your video clips.

To do this, you:

* Go to file, click on new and select sequence
* An easier way would be to right click and select new sequence from the clip

This will ensure you have a timeline where you can view and edit your video. It is easy to add a second clip by simply grabbing it from the project browser and dropping it in your timeline on the right. From here on, you can play around with effects, etc.

GoPro Protune Adobe Premiere Color Correction

It is good to know more about how to adjust the colors in your footage. Applying interesting color effects is easy when you use the Direct Link to SpeedGrade. Especially if you made use of roll mode in which case your videos will look flat. This is when the whites tend to be too bright and not too much saturation in the colors.

To correct your colors, you need to head over to the effects panel within your work area where you will source an entire folder just for color correction. You can adjust brightness and contrast over here. RGB curves can also be corrected within this area.

To apply any of these, you just have to drag it from your effects window and drag it to your clip. Now you can start playing around with the various effects while watching the video in real time and see the desired changes. It is a case of simply dragging and dropping whatever effect you want to the clip area and it will be applied. This is how you tailor the look of your video.

Fixing Lens Distortion

GoPro cameras are used all over. People put them on surfboards, go karts, or even jump out of airplanes with the camera attached. As you can imagine, it affects the quality of the video due to a lot of movement. This is easy to fix. All you need to do is go over to the effects section of the GoPro
Protune Adobe Premiere work area:

* Select video effects
* Drop down to the distort file
* Open up Warb Stabilizer
* Double click it in order to apply it to your selected clip

The first thing warb stabilizer would do is to analyze the content of your video clip to detect motion. Once detected, it would stabilize the video for you.

There you have it. Now your video is ready to be exported to the web so you can share your creative flair with the world.

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