The Secret to Extracting 5.7K Video from the GoPro Fusion

From the HD Pro Guide Magazine archive: this article first appeared in HD Pro Guide Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1 (NAB 2018). By Al Caudullo.

The Secret to Extracting 5.7K Video from the GoPro Fusion By Al Caudullo Remember when the GoPro Fusion was first announced? There was wild speculation flying everywhere about the specs. When they were finally announced, there were many questions as to why 5.2 K and not 5.7 k for video. After all, it’s not that much of a difference, but it would be really cool to be able to have 5.7 K videos from the fusion. Well, I’m about to show you the secret way of making that happen!

To start off, to accomplish this, we’re going to have to go into kind of a Time Warp bubble. Back to a time when the only way you can get things done in a computer was to type in simple line code known as command line interface or CLI.

For many of you, that might be something that you actually remember, or it may be so far in and scary that you may be reluctant to attempt it! But I’m going to go through this step-by-step and show you how it’s done.

There is one very BIG caveat. This is not endorsed or supported by GoPro. You do this at your own risk. You might wonder why I wanted to do this. There are several reasons.

First, I love the GoPro Fusion! I am a total Fusion Fanatic and not ashamed to say it. Second, I had a project that screamed for the Fusion, but the tech specs that were required were for 5760×2880 resolution.

So I set out to find a way to make it work and get the absolute highest quality professional render. Thanks to a good friend who let me in on the secret I found out that this can be done by using the ms-dos command line interface.

This meant a much heavier user interface with the project. No opening up the wonderful clean and easy to use Fusion Studio.

Instead, every clip must be rendered individually. This was no easy task with almost 200 shots to process this would be no easy task. First, a little pre-prep. Find the Fusion Studio folder in the GoPro folder in Program Files in your C: drive.

You can either work from that path or copy the folder and put it in another drive. In my case, I added the folder to my i: drive which is my raid. Next, you will need to put all your Fusion files together in that folder or in a separate folder. I put mine into the Fusion Studio folder. This includes both the FRONT and BACK files from your GoPro Fusion camera.

These include the .mp4, .thm, .lrv and .wav files. Once you’ve done that, you are ready to start. Open a Command Prompt in any number of ways. My favorite is to right click on the windows icon and select Command Prompt from the list. Once you have a little black magic window into the very soul of your computer open, you are ready for the next step. Namely, get some help. I mean literally, open the help file.

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