New Technicolor-Certified ProTune firmware uprgrade for for HD HERO2

Al MacLeod said:
The Gopro site now says...late august for the update. There goes the summer...
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Just checked their website, now says: "Additional features* coming Fall 2012 with free software update.
GoPro App: use your smartphone or tablet as a live video remote—includes video and photo preview and playback.
Wi-Fi transfer your favorite videos and photos from your GoPro to your smartphone or tablet to share with friends.
Live stream video or share photos and videos directly to the web from your GoPro, wherever you have a network connection—including using your Smartphone as a hotspot. "

Will still be worth waiting for but, Waaaaaaaaaa!
 
Summer is over and new ProTune firmware uprgrade in nowhere....!!
Damned all my summer footage is ruined with horrible macroblocking again!!! Sh*t, I hate it.
 
check this out. They used a bunch of go pros. Don't know if they got some help from go pro with modified cameras with protune but it looks great and has gotten amazing reviews and awards.

Trailer:

http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/i...ollaborative-clash-of-man-nature-and-machine/

Article about the film and the gopros they used.

"Part of the appeal of the GoPro footage — especially in the pitch-black night scenes, with movement sometimes registering as ghostly afterimages — was that it lacked the definition of more expensive cameras. “The footage seemed to be much more opaque in a good way,” Mr. Castaing-Taylor said. “It activated the viewer’s imagination much more.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/movies/harvard-filmmakers-messy-world.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
 
Yo guys, the other night I sent an e-mail to GoPro in regards to the ProTune update, I got this response just now:


"Hi Simon,

Thanks for getting in touch with us.The Protune firmware still does not have a release date, but it should be launched this Fall."



Shouldn't be too long now I guess.
 
According to GoPro's Senior Director of Software Engineering David Newman's Twitter, ProTune is now available for the HERO2 via GoPro CineForm Studio.
 
Gopro refers us to Itunes for download...Itunes has app for iphone and ipad...no Android...

edit...gopro support will get back to me in two business days. I guess they didn't anticipate Android users wanting to use the app.

Downloaded the latest cineform studio...it allows a version update to the cam, does not seem to be pro tune, no 24 frame...
 
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David told me that Android will come up next.
I understand that the majority of film guys are Apple based, so it makes some sense to deliver that first.

Not that I gonna like that decision, but I understand it.

Frank
 
Just cycled through the new updated camera...no 24 fps. The latest cineform studio has nothing to indicate pro tune awareness. Has anyone heard anything about how or when pro tune is supposed to be delivered?

Found 24...gotta search a few cam menues...instructions would be nice
 
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Yes.. After you download the most recent version of GoPro Cineform Studio and install(from their site), you then attach your camera to update your firmware. When it's done you'll have a "Protune: on/off" setting in the camera's video menu. With that you'll be able to choose 1080/24 or 25p amongst others. One weird thing though is when you turn the Protune mode off you lose the 1080/24, 25 option. The resulting files are confirmed at 35mbs and are lower in contrast, saturation and sharpness. In a good way..
 
No active preview after pressing the record button in 1080/24 but I can live with that.
Seems like there was/is preview after pressing record when Protune is off (I've already forgotten . . . but it's late!).
There's a pretty substantial lag time anyway. Who cares? (I don't).
Maybe there will be tweaks down the road after they get the Android version out . . .
Hard to complain (for me anyhow), the price is right.
 
Nearly died yesterday , I did the firmware update and the update seemed to get stuck in a loop with lights flashing and small symbols flashing on the LCDof the GoPro,this happen after disconnecting from the PC. So after nearly a hr ,I phoned the local importer/agent , ask to speak to a tech ,she did not seem to be the brights peanut in the packet , after explaining to her the second time what was gone, on she said I must remove the battery and then redo the update , if this did not resolve the problem my GroPro would be replaced it with a new one. so I do this after putting the battery back , It went back in to the loop but this only took a minute and I was updated with the Protune and working . I see there are other settings on the Gopro in Protune, there is a 720-60t ,960-48t,1080-24t,1080-25t and 1080-30t but where is the 720-50t or 960-50t or 960-60t?, other than that I am very happy, after a small test yesterday it seem to give a better pictures and via the software fine tuning the picture works great.
 
After a Email to Go Pro about the lack of other pal frame settings , they have told me Pro Tune does not support PAL , Nice one way to go GoPro if this is away to start loosing your customers.
 
So how does it work with PAL...is the only difference the frame rate, 24 vs 25? Is there something else to separate NTSC from PAL?
 
The only setting you get is 1080p 25 pal the rest is ntsc . GoPro could have add some more code lines to the firmware, which would have not taken long, I think this a poor show on there part, it would be interesting to find out the user base ntsc vs pal.
 
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