@CubeAce

Hi Ray

Thanks for that Intel link - Very interesting! It highlights the points that you and the rest of us stalwarts have been banging on about in regards to the need to keep our hardware and software "up to the minute" to handle the quickly changing recording technologies.

Intel's Jean-Pierre Navarro believes anyone working with their GoPro footage will want the newest possible system. "Consumers producing professional-grade videos will probably want to upgrade their PC to get the most out of their files," he said. "If you want to work at the highest resolution, it's going to be too crazy to do anything on a PC you bought three or more years ago. You're going to spend too much time, and it will be too hard to do anything fun with OverCapture, for example."

Navarro said the engineers from Intel and GoPro tested some system-stressing scenarios using sixth, seventh, and eighth-generation CPUs in various form factors, desktops, and laptops. "If you compare desktop to desktop with eighth and ninth-generation CPUs, you see significant performance improvements," he said. Even laptop systems with Intel integrated graphics will benefit from the optimization work. "We worked with GoPro to optimize their code together, suggested ways to optimize workflows on the CPU and the GPU, and it really paid off for consumers."

Magix, like GoPro have obviously decided that they need to work closely with a chosen manufacturer of CPU / GPU's to optimise their software to certain Hardware. See this bit of fine print from the Intel article:-

Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice.

@John-Merk

The article actually states that Magix MEP has the ability to manipulate the GoPro Fusion footage:-

When users are back home on their home PC, they can perform advanced film editing using plugins to additional software titles such as Adobe After Effects* or MAGIX Movie Edit Pro*.

So what Ray has suggested is that your PC may not have the required hardware to cope with what are very high resolution (5.2K) files.

It would help if you gave us as much information about your PC including CPU and GPU make and model numbers, OS build, and Version numbers of MEP as written in Help > About.

Peter

@John-Merk

...When users are back home on their home PC, they can perform advanced film editing using plugins to additional software titles such as Adobe After Effects* or MAGIX Movie Edit Pro*...

My bolding. It looks to me like you need a GoPro plugin for MEP to edit that video.

@Scenestealer @John-Merk

Hi Peter.

I'm glad you also read the footnotes 😉

My take on it is that the footage has to be converted using the GoPro Fusion Studio before bringing it into another editor for further refinement or it can't be done. That also possibly means the need of an additional graphics card on top of the need for an Intel GPU with more than 4GB of vram to handle files above 4K.

Ray.

@John-Merk

HI,

Can you record about 10 or 15 seconds and post the file(s) on a sharing site like DropBox so that we can play around with it?

John CB

@AAProds

My bolding. It looks to me like you need a GoPro plugin for MEP to edit that video.

The "Plugin" is already in MEP but it only works with a file that contains the front and back camera views and this is what Fusion studio is supposed to do - create a file that combines the separately recorded front and back files as the OP and Ray have suggested.

If Fusion Studio is crashing on @John-Merk's PC then he can not get past that step. Ironically the system requirements list for Fusion Studio look relatively basic.......just like MEP's......😄, although I do see they recommend Intel Iris 620 graphics specifically.

Peter

@Scenestealer@Scenestealer @AAProds @browj2

Hi.

This is why being an early adaptor to any new tech now is a minefield and needs to be researched (preferably by downloading the manual for a given product although that is not always useful either) before a purchase so as to know what world of pain you possibly letting yourself in for.

Every time I have purchased a new camera in the past 12 years I have had to upgrade at least my software to cope, and now and again the hardware has also needed to be replaced to cope with the new demands of more pixels and newer 'more efficient' codecs that invariably always need a lot more processing power to cope with the demands of the newer encoded file types.

People often blame the software before they look at the requirements needed to process the new files and manufacturers are never up front about the processing needs on often leading edge new tech.

Ray.