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How To Create STAR TRAILS with ANY GOPRO & FREE SOFTWARE
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
- In this video I provide a complete guide to creating star trails using ANY GoPro action camera in combination with free software. The GoPro Hero 11 has the star trails capability built into it, but other GoPro cameras do not. This method I demonstrate makes it possible to create incredible star trails using any GoPro as the capturing device.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - Reference this for night lapse tools I use
1:03 - Auto method star trail settings on the Hero 11
4:52 - Night lapse settings for the star trails manual method
7:02 - The free software you'll need
11:04 - Loading night lapse photos on your computer
11:42 - Adobe DNG photo conversion from GPR to DNG
13:48 - RawTherapee DNG photo editing and export to JPG
19:20 - StarStaX photo assembly and export
24:39 - DaVinci Resolve creation of the finished product
32:48 - Conclusion
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All of the sample star trails that I share in this video are ones that I created using the manual process that I outline in this video. Since the manual process is the focus of this video I wanted to include only star trails created using the manual process. Enjoy!
I had a gro pro all along all the time and I didn't know it can create such beautiful star trails. Thanks for the amazing tutorial.
You’re welcome. It really is amazing what this tiny little camera can do.
Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge about Gopro`s! It`s really helpful 🙌🙌
You’re welcome and I appreciate your feedback.
What an EXCELLENT tutorial. Thank you :)
I appreciate your feedback. You’re welcome!
What a good video thank you for showing us all of the settings you explain things well.
I appreciate your feedback.
it's great! now i'm looking on my first Gopro and adding some star trails to my hike vlog. Thanks for sharing, so helpful! 😁
This is great to hear! Thanks!
Great video! So very well explained, thank you for that!
I appreciate your feedback and you’re welcome!
Thank you for this tutorial.. a gem !! ❤️✨️
I appreciate it!
Ah brilliant! Thank you for this tutorial. I'll look forward to giving this a go ❤
Thank you for your feedback and hope you have fun with this process.
Drone skills are top notch!!!
Thanks
Outstanding! Thanks for this!
You’re welcome!
Awesome Video. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
You’re welcome!
perfect tutorial, thank you!!!😉
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Can't wait to try it out, thanks 👌
You’re welcome. The neat thing about this method is if you already have photos from a night lapse done using the photo mode you can take those photos and create a star trail night lapse direct from those.
Very helpful video! Awesome! Thank you! Like
You’re welcome!
Awesome video. It’s extremely useful on how to shoot a star trails on gopro. But I’ve a question on the sd card and files size; is it 512GB is good enough and would you mind to advice how’s file size of the night photo image took by gopro?
Thank you. The 512GB card has been more than enough space for me. If I do a night lapse using photo mode with the RAW files (GPR) I find that an entire night of photos at a 15 second interval take up at most about 70 GB of space on the card. These of course have the JPG files that also get created. If I use the built-in Star Trails mode on the GoPro Hero 11 this results in a single MP4 file and usually this is 5GB or less in size.
Great work thank you 👍
Appreciate your feedback.
Great video 👏
Thank you
Hi, I stumble across your video. I am using DaVinci Resolve v18.6 to edit the time wrap from my GoPro 12 Black. I can't change the clip speed, it is grayed out. Any insights will be appreciated.
Hello sir! I bought a gopro 12 and tried to take my first star trail today. I dint know but the timer is 00:00 even after starting the capture. Also, after few minutes my gopro screen turns off and the red light keeps blinking. Is this normal and should i leave it as it is and let it capture?
Yes, both of these should be normal. If the star trail has an interval or shutter speed of 30 seconds then at 30fps for the end result it will take 30 individual frames to make 1 second of footage. This means 30 frames equals 15 minutes of real time and 1 second of the star lapse finished product.
Yes, the GoPro screen will go dark to save power as it captures the star lapse. This is a nice feature that can help a lot but if you do want to do a capture for more than a couple hours I recommend grabbing an external power bank.
Have fun with your GoPro. I love the star lapse feature. A lot of fun!
Great vid...thanks for the Adobe DNG converter tip....curious why not use the Photoshop Image Processor script to convert from DNG to JPG for StarStax?
You could do this if you want to. My focus in this video was a method for this to be accomplished using entirely no-cost software. Since Photoshop has a cost I did not utilize that for the process outlined in this video.
It's not working for me.I Can't change the naming of photos in starstax 😔. When i import photos to DR its show as multiple files.
These will be two separate problems or possibly related. For the naming of the photos in Starstax you'll want to make sure all files are selected when renaming so that they all get renamed sequentially. For importing into DaVinci Resolve if the photos are named with a naming convention that goes 0001, 0002, 0003 and so forth this should work for the import as long as they are all selected. However, I have seen DR be a bit finicky with this stage and sometimes work-arounds do have to be used.
Great video - but I have the same problem here. If I delete the save name in Starstax it simply replaces it, so saves all my images as "StarStaXxxx_gap_filling". Also, I cannot "make sure all files are selected". Any idea why? @@GreatDayForAHike
Lovely. Star trails are one of my favorites. On the second clip you got a beautiful Jupiter that I see. On 1st, the comet looks interesting but is it a post-processing effect or real?
🙏🌟💫
I believe that was a meteor that got captured in that frame there. It does look pretty neat. Love it when random meteors appear in night lapses or star trails.
@@GreatDayForAHike Wow... So it was real. Good that it was not missed in the process. When I do post-processing, a lot of time these get unnoticeable or totally missed and I believe these actually need enhancement to make the final result nicer and more magical as here. Of course, airplane and jet tracking is a different story.
Just awesome! So do you know can you do star trails on an Osmo Action 3?
Thank you! Similar steps can be used with the Osmo Action 3. The star trails cannot be done in-camera so this would need to be done using the manual method I outline in this video.
Good video, I have the hero 11… could this process with the free software be used to edit sunrises/sunsets (without the star trax) shot with the photo setting
Yes, it absolutely can. I’ve done it before and it works well.
Great video. I have a question though. I am using the GoPro Hero 11 and doing star trails only gives the video output, therefore the steps with the software do not work as there is no images as such. I am wanting to have a single Star Trail image. - Any advice?
Thanks. Yes, if you want to use any photos later on such as to create a single image or play around with them then you’d need to use the time lapse photo method and not Star Trails mode on the Hero 11. Star Trails mode on the Hero 11 will only give the single video output.
When I import media into Resolve 18, it doesn’t put all the photos together?
Same
If DaVinci doesn’t properly import them as a single video clip, these steps should help you work around the issue:
1. In the Media Page, select Show Individual Frames from the menu under the three dots (…). This will show each photo as a separate file instead of an individual clip.
2. Next, select all the photos and drag them into the media pool.
3. In the File menu under Preferences > User > Editing, change the Standard Still Duration to 1 frame.
4.Verify you files are sorted in the correct, numerical order, select all the files and drag them onto your timeline.
5. You will now have a timelapse made up of individual photos.
6.For ease of editing, make a compound clip with all the frames.
Awesome! Thanks man
Same
When you erase the file name of number 1 it doesn't erase the other files names. How to erase all file names at once? I noticed all your files check marks are deep blue maybe you are controlling all?
Couldn't you just edit the converted files in Adobe for a still or video? Star Stax won't open after downloading to my 22 Macbook Air. I generally create my still star trails by creating an image stack in photoshop.
Yes for doing still star trail photography Photoshop is a great tool. Lightroom is my favorite tool for editing DNG or GPR files but I wanted to feature no-cost software options for users that do not have paid Adobe products. Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro are fabulous products and I use them a lot.
I'm trying this for my first time. If you want to do just a regular night lapse of all the edited photos what steps in StarStax do you NOT use or use? before going to Davinci Resolve?
If you want to do a photo night lapse then you can skip the StarStax step entirely and go direct from the photo edit to DaVinci Resolve.
@@GreatDayForAHike I understand that now. I'm stuck in that Davinci Resolve 18 no matter how I named my 1200 edited jpg files (either after StarStax, or just the photo edit) it is NOT grouping them as a single file, but bringing them in individually at 5 seconds each, I don't know how to get them to actually play at 24 frames/second as a group? I've been trying all night. I'm on Macos Ventura 13.2.1. My files are all sequenced (ie: 0002.jpg, 0003.jpg..) I would love it if Davinci brought them in as a group like yours shows. And I output StarStax with no name and starting at 1... and it still would output it with a prefix.. then I would rename them taking out the prefix.. I'm frustrated.
I did a work around in iMovie. Great result. Thank you again for your tutorial.
Excellent and I’m glad that worked for you.
I think I’ll create a quick fix tutorial for this issue in Resolve because it seems to be a fairly common one.
Can I use this to also do a night lapse video from a gopro 7. Because I can only manage the separate pictures
Yes, you can use night lapse photos from a Hero 7 to do this as long as they were captured in photo mode. A single, night lapse video file from the Hero 7 will not work for this.
@Great Day For A Hike the hero 7 does not do night lapse video, that's the problem. I want to turn all the picture files in to a smooth video...
MacOS will not let me open StarStaX :(
I notice there are three different versions for MacOS. It may be worth confirming you got the correct version for your Mac. Also, there is an FAQ here that may help you depending upon the issue you are experiencing: markus-enzweiler.de/software/starstax/starstax-support/
How many hours do I need to be shooting?
I generally like to aim for right after sunset to ending right after sunrise. The entire night gives me the most footage to work with.
@@GreatDayForAHike The only way to make it that long is to use a power bank, right?
That’s right. I use this one from Anker for all-night time lapses just to be sure I have enough power: amzn.to/3nX0RpW
@@GreatDayForAHike When I import to DaVinci it imports the whole images and not just as a clip, just like yours.