Import and Load GoPro HD MP4 Videos to Pinnacle Studio
GoPro is the world’s first true 1080p HD and best selling wearable camera which includes Helmet hero, Surf hero, Hero 960 and the recent GoPro Hero series Hero HD, Hero HD 2, Hero HD 3, Hero HD 3+, Hero HD 4. If you record some HD videos with a new waterproof and shockproof GoPro Hero Camcorder for outdoors sports, surfing, jet ski, race cars, etc, you probably would like to edit the recorded GoPro Camera footage in Pinnacle Studio. If you failed to import GoPro HD MP4 footage to Pinnacle Studio for post-production, you are recommended transcoding GoPro HD MP4 videos to Pinnacle Studio preferred format before importing. In this article, we show you how to compress/import GoPro HD MP4 to Pinnacle Studio one after another.
However, Pinnacle Studio can’t edit GoPro HD MP4 videos shooting. If you need to edit GoPro HD MP4 .mp4 files in Pinnacle Studio, you should transcode GoPro HD MP4 format to Pinnacle Studio best compatible files, and among all the supported video formats, AVI seems to be the best one due to the great video quality but small size.
UFUWare HD Video Converter is one of the best choices to help you achieve your goal. It supports converting all GoPro camera MP4 files to Pinnacle Studio preferred formats e.g. AVI, WMV with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. In fact, it’s an integrated tool for transcoding GoPro, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, etc camera or camcorder videos to kinds of NLE programs Windows Movie Maker, Avid MC, Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas highly compatible formats. Well, if you meet the incompatible issue on your Mac OS X, please turn to HD Converter for Mac to resolve it. Just download it and follow the step-by-step guide to transcode GoPro MP4 clips for editing in Pinnacle Studio smoothly.

How to Convert GoPro MP4 to AVI for Pinnacle Studio?
Step 1: Add GoPro MP4 files
Install and launch the GoPro Video Converter, and then click “Add Files” button to import your GoPro MP4 files to the software.
Tip: If you wanna combine GoPro MP4 video clips into one file, you can select all files and click Merge.

Step 2: Select Pinnacle Studio friendly format as output format
Click “Format” bar to determine output format. Here we choose “HD Video” -> “AVI HD Video (*.avi)” as output, which seems to be the best one due to the great video quality but small size. Of course, MPG, WMV are also the proper formats for Pinnacle.

Step 3: Determine you video resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc.
Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. Notice that you can not “convert up” video quality. If you selected HD Video in Step 2, we advise you to adjust the A/V parameters to be the same with source MP4 footage so as to bear least quality loss at proper file size. To cut down file size, you may set down video bit rate, the lower bit rate you set the smaller file size you get. Do not forget to click “OK” to confirm your settings. Then type in a desired output location in the “Output” box.
Step 4: Convert GoPro MP4 to Pinnacle Studio Ultimate friendly video format.
Click the convert button under the preview window, the converter will start encoding GoPro MP4 for importing to Pinnacle Studio. Soon after the conversion is finished, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for edit in Pinnacle Studio 14/15/16 perfectly.

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