Honey Badger Dive Team in the Bahamas Dec 2012

[DetectorGuy]

I updated my Facebook page and added 142 photos in it from the trip (65 from the family portion and 77 from the dive portion) There is one that I particularly like, its looking up towards the top of the blue hole from 135'. The photo is small because I extracted it from the HD video during the editing process. I have heard there has been some conversation about people trying to find a video converter for these GoPro cameras. I searched and searched my self for something better than the GoPro factory editor. I tried BroadCam Video Streaming Software, Debut Video Capture Software, Any Video Converter, and AVS4You. I have not had much success with any of these, and I went back to using the factory software from GoPro. I have found out that I can add the videos I want to the "convert" column, (and after spelling out which folder in my computer to send them to after the first step of converting them) and then hit the "convert all" button. I usually hit this button in the evening because it takes several hours to convert these large files. When this "step one" is done, the files are converted (but not edited yet) and transferred to my computer. I can now skip "Step Two" on the GoPro software because that is their lame editing software (it takes a ton more time and adds to the massive file storage in your computer as it adds another layer for this un needed step. Then I get out of the GoPro software and open up a still picture on my old 2007 Dell computer running the Windows Vista OS. The still photo opened up is just a path I take to "make a movie". I import the files that have been recently converted to the Window Vista video editor and proceed to edit the videos. This still sounds like a lot of steps, but the beauty is once these files are converted they are 20 times smaller files than the originals. I can then delete the raw huge GoPro files and the converted (but still large) GoPro files stored on my hard drive. I take the windows edited videos and upload them to YouTube. YouTube now has some editing software in their system as well, like video stabilization, brightness, contrast, and hue.

Well, Merry Christmas to you and yours, Here is a link to my FaceBook photos page: