Go Pro 6, Filmora and a slow pc...

[Tiggsy]

Playing with my gopro footage (1080p 240fps) by editing it in filmora - which handles my drone footage fine (shot at 2.7K)

I use filmora as I want to spend more time out and about and less time faffing with complex software - but the playback of the footage is very slow when editing. If I export to a movie it comes out fine....but makes editing a chore and impossible to judge setting up slowmo as it already plays back too slow!

Would this be my underpowered PC?

Would it be right that the pc will show 2.7K 30fps fine in editing mode, mode grind to a halt with 1080 240fps?

Happy to get a GPX card, etc - but wanted to check that was the likely issue.

[Tiggsy]

ok - quick test and it plays 2.7k 60fps fine in editing mode - so is handling 240 a problem for filmora or my pc?

[Fordo]

Hmm - the 240fps in theory, should be flagged to playback at whatever your projects frame rate is: 25fps, 60fps etc. So to the computer, what it was shot at makes no difference - its playing back the file at 25 frame per second, - so theres no extra load on the computer from that front.

However, it can come down to the amount of compression applied to the video file. Heavily compressed video takes more work for the computer to decode before displaying. So a heavily compressed mp4 file, may be harder to playback than a less compressed video format.

Im not familiar with the software your using, but it sounds to me like the software is more at fault than your PC. Some video editing software just doesn't play ball with certain video codecs. It plays footage from your drone fine, but not the gopro.

It might be worth trying to playback the gopro clip, in other software as a test - For example, I think gopro's own bit of editing software is free, so might be worth trying.

One last thing - what kind of hard drive are the video clips on? Large, high res video needs fast drives or SSDs to play back smoothly, as you need fast, sustained data rates from the hard drive. A lot of times people complain their computer is slow for video editing, it can actually be the hard drive speed thats the bottleneck, not the graphics card or CPU