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GoPro Announces QuikStories

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SAN MATEO, Calif. - (July 27, 2017) - Sharing cool experiences is now easy thanks to QuikStories – a new GoPro app feature that automatically pulls footage from a HERO5 camera and creates ready-to-share videos on your phone. QuikStories are polished, shareable videos featuring customizable music, filters, and effects.

“QuikStories is our biggest leap forward since the invention of the GoPro itself,” says GoPro founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman. “QuikStories is the simple storytelling solution our customers have been dreaming about for years. It’s an absolute game changer.”

Making a QuikStory is as simple as pairing a HERO5 camera to your phone and launching the GoPro app. Then kick back as the app automatically copies your most recent GoPro footage to your phone and creates an exciting video for you.

Customizing a QuikStory is also easy. Add text, slow motion and speed effects, change filters and music, adjust the total video length and more. Additionally, any footage on your phone can be added to a QuikStory video.

QuikStories is now available for HERO5 Black and HERO5 Session users. To get started, download the new GoPro app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Posted Jul 27, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

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Woutt•

I'm curious how this will impact battery life...! Seems like a fun and neat feature for sure, but “QuikStories is our biggest leap forward since the invention of the GoPro itself,”... Really, this?

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

I'm curious how this will impact battery life...!

It sounds like it's over the Bluetooth connection, which is pretty efficient. This might be hard to test, though.

Seems like a fun and neat feature for sure, but “QuikStories is our biggest leap forward since the invention of the GoPro itself,”... Really, this?

Pretty classic Nick Woodman. I'd argue that the biggest leap forward was session being small and waterproof without a case, while having better audio performance than cased cameras... But session was kinda the black sheep of GoPro due to pricing decisions and image quality.

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grimnar•

They want in on the snapchat mystories train. Just bullshit.

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

They want in on the snapchat mystories train. Just bullshit.

Quik has been around for a decently long time now, the only thing different here is that it's pre-loading the content to your phone. Nothing seems snap-chatty about this to me. Am I missing something?

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btfleming4•

"We've made sign-in even easier" maybe people will stop bitchin now.

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BeltPressHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

Nope. Still have to create an account and sign in, unless you use the airplane mode trick.

Still going to bitch.

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surlysurfer•

I disabled the app from using Cellular data in my iPhone's settings. Does the trick without having to go into airplane mode.

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KingofHilo19•

So will QuikStories work with a Hero 4?

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MasterBuffalo30•

"A Hero5 camera" means Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, the Hero4 is not a Hero5 camera.

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ricardo_lacombe•

Have an upvote.

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

You get out of here with your reading and logic.

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BeltPressHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

Not sure why anyone is downvoting this but have my upvote.

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brown-bean-waterHero 5 Black•

This is exactly the dumb shit that I didn't buy my GoPro for. This is what smartphone cameras are for.

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jwr_Hero5 Black•

They just released a new firmware for the HERO5 too.

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

Its probably not something I will use beyond trial, but my parents will love it.

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purdue1014•

So what happens if we shoot with Protune. Will it down grade or just not work at all?

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

I think the reasoning is that protune is intended for people who want to edit in post, not instantly on their phone, so protune content is left on the card.

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abekislevitzHero5 Black | Karma•

I'm pretty sure protune actually works fine, I think that FAQ might be old... unless they did some cripplement in the last hours

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brandysurfs•

I just tried it. It says clips are too long or too high of resolution. At first I thought the clips were too long but remembered they were Protune. The GoPro app ignores Hero5 Protune videos and gets the rest for QuickStories. I downloaded my Protune videos using the GoPro app but the Quik app still wont import Protune clips, no matter the size. I thought Quik supported Protune before. Either way I hope they add it. The GoPro Splice app imported Protune videos just fine for me. Also note your GoPro app may increase in size the more stories you create. Mine got up to 1.5 Gb.

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abekislevitzHero5 Black | Karma•

weird, I swear they switch support back and forth between every release. I tested every resolution last month in ProTune and they all worked fine. Now I'm getting the same. I'll do some digging.

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BeltPressHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

Doesn't work at all.

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konrad-iturbeResident software/firmware/hacking guru•

Just in time as I bought a HERO5 today!

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BeltPressHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

Congrats dude. RIP to your 4 though :(

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konrad-iturbeResident software/firmware/hacking guru•

It was already 3 years old at this point, I love 1080p TimeLapse video, just wish it had protune.

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lileyedmonsterHero4 Silver•

Am I the only one that thinks it sucks that it doesn't work with the Hero 4?

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DesignNomadHero5 Black | Karma•

As far as I know, it can't, the Hero4 doesn't have the bt chip needed to do it. Hero5's got a big upgrade in the bluetooth department.

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BAMCIS16•

GoPro still wasting money thinking that the average person is going create dope videos to post on social.

It's all about IG stories and boomerangs and things you can instantly ingest and move on to the next. No one wants to watch a minute long video of your hike.

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HalenXalleth•

meh. if it requires using their gopro account then I don't want anything to do with it.

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BeltPressHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

It appears that it doesn't.

edit: You still need a GoPro account to access the app. The "Stories" doesn't require a separate account.

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regisgodHero5 Black•

They've just copied Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook stories though. This is literally keeping up with trends, let alone a 'gamechanger'.

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purdue1014•

Alright, guess I'll have to try it out to see, lol.

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purdue1014•

Thanks

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Kay_Hay•

The app crashes every time I try to export it to Instagram/iPhone library. Anyone else experience this/have a solution?

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daewootechHero5 Black | Karma Grip•

Every time I try to use this on other my black or my session it starts to look like it’s going to connect then either says SD card empty or no files to download or just says error

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beachedazd•

So they have pretty much jacked the Snapchat Spectacles concept?

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ap73OPHero 5 Black•

How so?

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