GoPro Quik app coming to desktop for subscribers only

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GoPro has revealed that its Quik app, which lets users edit videos and photos on their mobile devices, will soon be available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows. However, the app will be exclusive to GoPro subscribers, who pay a monthly fee to access advanced editing features, unlimited cloud storage, and discounts on GoPro products.

The desktop app will offer more features and capabilities than the mobile app, such as more precise edits, a larger workspace and the ability to work with both GoPro and non-GoPro media.

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GoPro HERO12 Black now supports longer adventures and vertical videos

GoPro has unveiled its latest action camera: the HERO12 Black. And it gets some notable improvements. One is the longer runtimes with the Enduro battery and a new power management system. You can record up to 2x longer than the HERO11 Black (with the Enduro battery included).

It has a new 9:16 vertical capture mode for platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts. You can also use Bluetooth wireless audio devices like AirPods and microphones for better sound quality. And the GoPro HERO12 Black gets HDR photos and videos at 5.3K and 4K resolutions, with GP-Log encoding for more dynamic range. You can also sync timecode across multiple HERO12 Black cameras for easier editing.

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GoPro brings Quik video features to the main app

GoPro updates its app to integrate the Quik video editing and give the app a “visual refresh” and a “more intuitive navigation.” The app is powered by a new software engine, and it’s the first in a “series” of planned app updates that will bring together camera control and content editing. The app improves the QuikStory multi-clip workflow. It now includes recently shot videos. Users can now also add to this workflow any video or image saved on their phone.

With QuikStory, GoPro finds what it calls “meaningful moment” in videos and it automatically suggests “awesome story compilations” involving these clips. The app also has the new ability to apply multiple filters in a single QuikStory. GoPro provides more than 20 filters in its app and says that it gives users the license needed to use multiple filters in a single multi-clip video. The draft limitations present in the previous version have also been removed with this new update. GoPro users can also access the editable format for their QuikStory videos, making it possible to go back and tweak the content whenever they want. Future plans for the app include having a full editing suite for single video clips as well as content themes.

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Report claims Xiaomi is in interested in buying GoPro

GoPro has been scaling down its business due to financial issues. The company announced back in January that it was leaving the drone business because of this. GoPro’s CEO Nick Woodman has said in an interview with CNN before that he was open to selling the company. He said, “If there was an opportunity to merge GoPro with a larger parent company that could help us scale our business and provide a better return on investment… we would welcome the opportunity…”

Now there seems to be someone interested in buying GoPro. Bloomberg reports Chinese tech company Xiaomi is looking to purchase the action sports camera company. Xiaomi is known in Asia for its affordable, feature-packed phones but it has also delved into everything from robot vacuums, laptops, electric scooters, power banks, routers, and many more. Perhaps, it wants to boost its action camera segment or possibly get into drones. Not much is known about this potential deal at the moment but GoPro is being valued at around a billion dollars, according to the report from The Information.