GoPro Hero question

[Dusty Britches]

I'm borrowing my parents' GoPro Hero and I'm trying to figure out why the resolution playback is well...

At the higher resolutions and wide angle, the playback is basically stop action - the sound is perfect but the video playback is like watching a series of photographs or very slow motion. To get a good playback I have it set at 1080 / 48 fps.

Any idea why I can't get a smooth playback?

(for those who are curious, I'm recording the cow dog training I'm giving my dog so the professional trainer can critique and give us pointers for the next step. I hope to use the videos in the future to show Blue Lacy owners how a Lacy dog can be trained to drive cattle.)

[txbassnaholic]

I had a similiar problem with a video camera. I had the wrong sd card in it. I spoke with best buy, where i bought the camera, and they said i had the wrong one and after replacing it with the right one, it worked great. Don't know if that is your problem but its at least one item you can check off.

[Jaybo31]

Could be the SD card. Mine was the computer I was viewing it on. My basic home computer would play just like that. Slow and choppy. Viewed it on my laptop that is built to run engineering programs and it played normal.

It was too much video for my home computer to run with a small amount of RAM

[Rockstar Chevy]

We use these for work, and we purchased the highest speed and highest capacity SD card, otherwise we ran into the same problems. Also, our computers weren't capable of playing a good sized video without crashing, that HD is a killer when you're processing 32GB of data!

[Boomerang]

You said a vague term GoPro Hero. Is it 1, 2, 3, 3+, 4??? The 3 and up require at least a Class 10 card and also name brand cards. Cheap cards will not work.

It doesn't make sense why the playback is so slow if your settings are correct. It could be your computer or the card can not process the high def very fast?

[Danimal14]

I changed my sd card to an extreme version and it is better, before my pics would always be blurry now no problems

[Dusty Britches]

Wow, I never would have thought of that. I'll try a different SD card. My laptop is pretty new, but I'm not sure what the RAM is. I'll look into it. thanks!

[Hughesb81]

SD card for sure

[wasp9760]

Lots of youtube tutorials they can really help. If you have wifi it helps to use your phone or tablet to set all your settings. Plus I have found GoPro customer service has been very helpful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnIgxFKQCw

[ItsLeo]

Wow, I never would have thought of that. I'll try a different SD card. My laptop is pretty new, but I'm not sure what the RAM is. I'll look into it. thanks!

You need a class 10 card with a speed of no less than 80mb/s (higher is better).

Don't just go to a box store and by any SD card that says it's a HD Video card (cause some of those are a real joke). Make sure it's at least class 10 and at least 80mb/s before you buy.

[redfishted]

If your running it on Windows 7 it's probably only capable of running @ 1080, try playing it through I tunes or QuickTime should work if it's not your SD card.