![]() I made myself a simple helmet mount using some carbon tube and a 40$ skateboarders helmet from rebel sport. The good news is once you mount it properly the mount becomes invisible. The Max is meant to be used on the end of a stick, which is one of the reasons I believe the Max is aimed at vloggers. It messes with the stitching of the two halves of the video. Basically the MAX hates being too close to anything. I still believe the Max is a great action cam but there are limitations to where you can mount it. Based on the youtube reviews I have seen most vlog makers seem to love the MAX, although a lot have also critised the software support. I think it in some part reflects the markets GoPro is targeting and I believe this is expecially so of the MAX, which I believe is aimed at vloggers more than action cam users. Poor software support is not a new issue at all with GoPro, This situation goes back several generations and seems to be policy. most are valid complaints but some people haven't done their homework. The GoPro forums contain a lot of angry rants from people demanding answers and threatening to return the camera. I can't really comment further on mac programs as I'm not a mac user. One criticism of the GoPro Player is that you cannot queue up exports but this is a minor issue imo. 360 files using the GoPro Player app however PC users can only play 360 movies and not export. This is not premiere's fault I just need a new computer. I was able to recover some of the video quality by upping the export settings in premiere but this bumped my export times out to 3 to 4 hours. The file sizes are vastly reduced though, rough 10% of the size of the cineform files. YAY! The bad news is cineform currently not working and HEVC and H264 currently only export in 4k and not the 5.6 k resolution required for good quality footage. There has recently been an update to the Max exporter with once again good and bad news. This resulted in lengthy export times and large files but good quality video. typically a 4gb file would export to about 19gb and these files contained about 8 minutes of footage. At first the program only exported in cineform format which resulted in good quality but very large files. PC users need to use the GoPro max exporter program which is still in development. Before you can even edit the movies you need to export them and the exporting software is similarly bad. The bad news also doesn't quite stop there. The problem is the 29$ au a month it costs to rent it. I had to watch a youtube video to learn how to export my movie but the rest I was able to figure out. The learning curve can be a bit steep but it's far from impossible. Now don't get me wrong, adobe premiere is a superior piece of software, it's lean, fast and efficient. 360 video on a desktop, the bad news is you need adobe premiere to do it. Considering the work a cell phone is being asked to do I'm not surprised. I have read reports of long transfer and encoding times and phones getting hot. It is possible to edit 360 files using the mobile app but I can't comment on how well it works as I haven't tried it. 360 degree footage with the GoPro Quik desktop app. The problem is software support, or lack of. Hardware and feature wise the MAX is a great camera but unfortunately that's where the good news ends. 360 audio doesn't really interest me but I can report that the stabilisation is extremely good and the reduced wind noise is definitely improved. GoPro also claims improved stabilisation and 360 audio with reduced wind noise. I'm not sure how wide the view is but with a fish eye lens I suspect it's quite wide. The Max can also do regular video at 1080p 60 fps super wide view and this is where the gps would be more useful. It has two 180 degree fish eye lenses as well as a GPS chip. The Max is the latest 360 camera from GoPro. To long didn't read version: Great camera very poor software support.
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