New ContourHD owners.....

Hey so those of you who got one of those ContourHD camera deali-os, I gots a question; what is the best way that you have found to edit videos? Is there a download or perhaps iMovie?
Any tips?

 

I use Adobe Premiere Pro. Sony Vegas 10 is pretty good, but I'm an Adobe guy.

 

You can download Story teller from the Contour website .

 

Free Microsoft Moviemaker should work well for editing too.


I just watched a cool [short] documentary on the founder of Contour, neat start up business story.


You guys happy with the performance? Does it compare well to the GoPro's?

 

For me Microsoft Moviemaker will not work, have to use Adobe Premiere.

 

I don't have a Contour, but I found Windows Movie Maker to be pretty easy to work with. Easy to edit and add effects and you can upload directly into Youtube if you want.

 

The last time I tried to use it, WMM wouldn't play nice with the MP4 files. All this stuff was done with Adobe Premiere:

http://www.youtube.com/user/sowega?feature=mhee

 

Since you mentioned iMovie I'm assuming you have a Mac? If you do, iMovie 09 and 11 are super easy (and free) to use and have some features I wish Final Cut Pro did.

 

Thanks for the responses. Yeah, got a Mac so we'll be updating our iMovie.

Camera works great, by the way. Went to an ice-racing event yesterday and an actual Moto2 racer was there having fun so I strapped the camera to his bike. Just need to edit it a bit.

 

I think it was Popular Mechanics or Car & Driver that did a comparison on 4 of the sports cameras, they said good things about the contour, but ultimately the GoPro won, contour was second though. GoPro is more versatile IMO, with all the options they have for it, but I don't think you can go wrong with either.

 

The 2 things I really like about the Contour is the GPS capabilities as well as connecting to your phone via bluetooth and running their app to use your phone as a viewfinder to help you position the camera. Alot better and cheaper than buying GoPro's $70 LCD bacpac

 

That's only with the ContourGPS right? Doesn't work with the standard ContourHD does it?

 

Correct

But the GPS is about the same price as the GoPro HD I believe. I actually do have the GoPro myself though and am quite happy with it. I think it's more resilient to crashing though which is nice

 

FWIW, we gave my son a ContourHD for Christmas, and he was nice enough to let me borrow it at Tally.

The picture quality on that thing is amazing. He's in Moab today mountain biking....can't wait to see the movies from that.

 

The GoPro is way better when the weather is not perfect (more sophisticated white-balance software) and handles wind noise a lot better than the Contour.

 

I used a trial version of VideoPad a couple times. It worked well with the Contours. I now use Sony Vegas Pro 10, but it's not free.

 

You guys might like this . From the WSBa couple weeks ago .

http://contour.com/stories/wsbk-philip-island Dragging the Contour on the ground .

 

I use Vegas pro 11 for my editing. I had Premier pro cs5.5 and just found it never seemed to work right.