Can anyone give me some advice on how to get the hd gopro files from the camera into corel video studio 12 (everytime I try uploading them into the program for editing it says file format mismatch) and then the edited files onto youtube?

Import into Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7, then you can upload from within the software - I just did it for the recent video in the "over-powered?" thread.
Download Movie Maker 2.6 if you have XP and try that.

You gotta have an account for YouTube though :D

It won't accept the video in movie maker. I select a gopro video to upload and then it just shows up as an X in the player.

I personally haven't used your corel studio. But id be willing to bet you need the codec think its H264 for the the go pro hd records in. I however know for a fact that the windows live movie maker with windows 7 (kamikuza said he was able to get movie maker to work in xp as well) does support and work on these files and uploads them straight to youtube when done, with no noticeable quality loss (again im not an expert so i just might be noticing quality issues)
so hit up your corel web site and do a search for the h264 codec or go download the latest win movie maker and be done .

Are you just trying to open the file in the software, or are you going through the IMPORT feature?
Most video needs to be imported into a project, not just opened or uploaded into a project.

Also, make sure in your project, you are setup for HD resolutions and formats. Usually you'll want NTSC 30fps for typical broadcast quality. Sometimes software will not display a video format correctly if it doesn't fit the parameters of the project file.

Maybe you need to install the codec ... the K-Lite Codec Pack is your answer

How about drag'n'drop onto movie maker?

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Originally posted by Kamikuza Maybe you need to install the codec ... the K-Lite Codec Pack is your answer How about drag'n'drop onto movie maker?

I installed the codec and it said finish and then it disappeared. What is the codec supposed to do? I tried dragging and dropping into movie maker and the same thing happened, red x. HELP!!

I would recommend trying a different video editor, if your like most people 15-25years of age, you wont mind circumventing the usually ways of acquiring the software.

I recommend Pinnacle Studio.

Brian

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Originally posted by brplatz I would recommend trying a different video editor, if your like most people 15-25years of age, you wont mind circumventing the usually ways of acquiring the software. I recommend Pinnacle Studio. Brian

Looks like I better get pirating The thing is Corel is very simple and does basically everything I want, I'd hate to have to use a different program.

Did you reboot? :D Codecs sit in the background and 'interpret' data when called by applications ... like DivX.

Been assuming it's GoPro HD - is it?