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I recently received a new Go Pro Hero 3 (Black Edition) and my question is this.
When playing back a video shot in 1080 rez, playback on my iMac is very choppy (but the audio is just fine). When shot in 720 rez, it plays back beautifully, using either Quicktime for preliminary viewing, or Adobe Premier for editing.
My iMac is a late 2009 model, 3.06 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo; 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3; Graphics:ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB; and Mt. Lion 10-8-2.
I just got off the phone with a technical advisor at MacMall and he did not think it was a 'shortage' of memory (which IS upgradeable) or video card (not upgradeable). He said to check the version of QuickTime to see if it is updated (I have yet to do that), and I should also tell you that these 1080 vids run just fine on my one year old MacBook Air 11" (although it doesn't have the storage capacity or the screen size to be 'comfortable' doing much video editing. Also, a 12 minute 1080 video is about 6 GB in size...it would fill up my little MBA in no time. ;-)
Any suggestions?
I am resigned to the fact that I may be shooting in 720 from here on out, and really, that is not all that bad a deal to me. I really cannot tell much difference between the 720 and 1080 when I plug the Go Pro directly into my HD TV and watch the raw footages there. But as long as I have it (and the new Go Pro also shoots in 1440 rez), I'd like to be able to use it from time to time.
As always, TIA!
Cheers!
Pat
When playing back a video shot in 1080 rez, playback on my iMac is very choppy (but the audio is just fine). When shot in 720 rez, it plays back beautifully, using either Quicktime for preliminary viewing, or Adobe Premier for editing.
My iMac is a late 2009 model, 3.06 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo; 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3; Graphics:ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB; and Mt. Lion 10-8-2.
I just got off the phone with a technical advisor at MacMall and he did not think it was a 'shortage' of memory (which IS upgradeable) or video card (not upgradeable). He said to check the version of QuickTime to see if it is updated (I have yet to do that), and I should also tell you that these 1080 vids run just fine on my one year old MacBook Air 11" (although it doesn't have the storage capacity or the screen size to be 'comfortable' doing much video editing. Also, a 12 minute 1080 video is about 6 GB in size...it would fill up my little MBA in no time. ;-)
Any suggestions?
I am resigned to the fact that I may be shooting in 720 from here on out, and really, that is not all that bad a deal to me. I really cannot tell much difference between the 720 and 1080 when I plug the Go Pro directly into my HD TV and watch the raw footages there. But as long as I have it (and the new Go Pro also shoots in 1440 rez), I'd like to be able to use it from time to time.
As always, TIA!
Cheers!
Pat