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What are you guys using to import your footage? I have the software they provided buty takes hours to download short clips....
 
Woah - how are you guys doing the swap? And what kind of resolution are you recording at?
I use a Tachyon XC, it records right to an SD Card, I assume the GoPro does as well.
I take the card out and put it in an SD card reader in my laptop, or use a USB reader. Just use Windows Explorer to drag and drop the files.
But I can swap over hours worth of data in minutes.
I don't know if maybe going through the camera as the reader is slow?
Maybe the speed class of your SD card matters, I use at least a Class 6, and just got a Class 10 card so it's faster read/write.

Once it's on my hard drive opening files into any video editor is pretty fast.
 
I use a class 10. Drop the card in the reader and use the the gopro software. Takes forever i will look at doing it your way.
 
I've just used the stuff that came with the computer. My biggest slow down is uploading to Youtube. 11 minute video takes 9 hours to upoad. I think my modem is crapping out on me though as it will just randomly stop downloading in the middle of everything.
 
I think its got something to do with the gopro software. I loaded the whole race from dtown to my computer in about 35 mins.
 
rattlecanpaint said:
I've just used the stuff that came with the computer. My biggest slow down is uploading to Youtube. 11 minute video takes 9 hours to upoad. I think my modem is crapping out on me though as it will just randomly stop downloading in the middle of everything.
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Do you downsample it first? That would make a huge difference.
 
rattlecanpaint said:
Not sure. What's that?
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Reduce the resolution and maybe the frame rate. E.g. it might be recorded at 1600x1200, you reduce it to 800x600 or something. This dramatically reduces the total file size. YouTube just reduces it anyway - I don't know what their native res is but you could find out. Smaller file = faster upload and less compression it does on their end.
 
on my macbookpro i just drag the file from the sd card to a movie folder and it is there simply by dragging. the go pro software has never given me any trouble.
 
If you're using a USB card reader, the speed is limited by the USB bus... which is slow as hell. It should be relatively quick on a built-in SD card reader. I can dump an 8gb card in a few minutes.
 
shawn said:
If you're using a USB card reader, the speed is limited by the USB bus... which is slow as hell. It should be relatively quick on a built-in SD card reader. I can dump an 8gb card in a few minutes.
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Unless its really old and using USB 1.x, shouldn't USB 2.0 be pretty fast? I know you'll never really get 480mb/s but even a 1 gig file should take < 20 seconds.
On that note, even a speed class 10 SD card isn't rated near as fast as a USB 2 host should be.

Now of course if the board dosn't have the right drivers for the USB host or something, that'll do it too.
 
The theoretical limit for USB 2.0 is 480 megaBITS per second. The practical limit is around 30 megaBYTES per second. At 30MB/s, it would take about 5-6mins to transfer 8GB. A lot of the cheap SD readers aren't even capable of those speeds, they're more like 10-15 MB/s.

My high speed SD cards are 45MB/s.
 
shawn said:
The theoretical limit for USB 2.0 is 480 megaBITS per second. The practical limit is around 30 megaBYTES per second. At 30MB/s, it would take about 5-6mins to transfer 8GB. A lot of the cheap SD readers aren't even capable of those speeds, they're more like 10-15 MB/s.

My high speed SD cards are 45MB/s.
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Ah, I think what I've missed on the speed class ratings is that's the *minimum* speed, not projected or max speed like other standards. Sneaky engineers. So its very possible for them to be bottlenecked by USB.
My laptop has a built-in reader so this rarely comes up :D
 
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