GoPro Studio vs Quik: Full Comparison of Best Video Editing Software for GoProers

Are you a GoPro fan like me? Glad to have you here. As is important for GoPro lovers to make a head-to-toe analysis on various GoPro series in order to decide which one is the better choice to place the order on, it is important as well, to tell from which GoPro video editing tool, GoPro Studio or GoPro Quik, is better for GoPro footage post-editing. Here's the in-depth comparison and the ultimate review concerning all details you need to know about. Continue reading.

To offer customers the best experience, companies would like to enrich its product lines to meet their customers needs as much as possible. So does the action camera giant GoPro. Besides its action camera, it offers some camera-related accessories, control/preview/share apps, cloud storage service, as well as video editing software for both the mobile client and the desktop client. For a long time, GoPro Studio was the only editing software that GoPro has for GoPro footage editing. With the release of its HERO5 sessions in 2016, GoPro has split its editing tool into two - GoPro Studio and GoPro Quik.

GoPro Quik vs GoPro Studio, what are the differences between the two? And who wins the game of video editing on computer? Well, let's move on to find out the results with a head-to-head comparison.

• Part 1 - An Overview on GoPro Quik and GoPro Studio
• Part 2 - Detailed Feature Comparison on GoPro Quik vs GoPro Studio
• Part 3 - Edit GoPro or Other Video with Best GoPro Quik/Studio Alternative

Part 1 - An Overview on GoPro Quik and GoPro Studio

Most GoPro holders capture motion photos or clips just for sharing to audiences, so GoPro company outlines the process of photo & video taking by developing many apps and software standby, in case those stunning GoPro footage are languishing away on the hard drive.

- GoPro App is a mobile one to enable users to control cams, real-time preview and play photos/videos back, and share favorites to FB, Ins or in email directly.

- GoPro Quik is a GoPro video editing tool available for both mobile and desktop;

- GoPro Studio is another video editing software for desktop. As the advanced version of Quik, it offers more editing features and was once included in Quik desktop installer. Unfortunately, GoPro ended its life since August, 2017 officially. Thus you have to download GoPro Studio in other ways.

Part 2 - Detailed Comparison on GoPro Quik vs GoPro Studio

No matter you work with GoPro videos on a daily basis or only a few times a month, a slick video editing editor will save you much of time and efforts. We still want to remind that as GoPro cameras are getting progressively better, they can shoot and hold larger video effortlessly at high resolution and FPS. Set taking 1-minute 4K@60fps video with GoPro Hero7 Black for example, it eats about 600MB memory up with Protune on and off, so big size ah? Therefore, it's recommended to edit such large videos on computer rather than on your iPhone, iPad or Android.

In order to make an objective and balanced comparison, well will put focus on GoPro Quik desktop vs GoPro Studio vs VideoProc, another easy GoPro video editor for computer picked out from the crowds as a reference.

GoPro Quik Desktop vs Studio - A Brief Comparsion on Supported OSs, Video Formats etc.
Options	GoPro Quik Desktop	GoPro Studio	VideoProc
Latest Version/Size	2.7	2.5.9 (Discontinued on GoPro site)	3.2
Size	172MB	187MB for Win and 272 for Mac on techspot site	47.1MB
OS	Mac OS X 10.10 or above, Windows 10 (64-bit only)	Unclear (theoretically the same as Quik 2.3)	Windows 10/8/7 (32/64-bit), Mac OS X 10.6 or above
Input	Videos taken by GoPro	GoPro, Canon, Nikon and other constant frame rate H.264 .mp4 and .mov	Any video taken by GoPro, DJI, SONY, Canon, Nikon, iPhone etc.
Output	AVC, H.265, MP4, MOV at 1080p 60fps maximally	7 common profiles including YouTube, Mobile, 720p, 1080p, 4K and custom one	420+ profiles incl. mainstream media formats and smart devices, with no limits on res, aspect ratio, fps etc.
Edit Templates	×	√	×
Share videos online from software	√	√	×
Auto sync GoPro videos and photos & Update GoPro products	√	√	×
Hardware Acceleration	×	×	√ (Full hardware acceleration powered by Intel, AMD and Nvidia)
Easy-to-use	★★★★	★★★	★★★★★

GoPro Quik Desktop vs Studio - A Full Comparsion on Edit Features
Edit Features	GoPro Quik Desktop	GoPro Studio	VideoProc
Rotate/Flip video	√	√	√
Trim	√	√	√
Cut	×	× (framing alternative)	√
Split	×	√
Merge/Mix videos	×	√	√
Fisheye control	×	√	√
Remove background noise	×	×	√ (wider range from 10x slower to 16x faster)
Add transition/titles	×	√	×
Add filter effects/subtitle/watermark	×	√	√
Add music/soundtrack	√	√	×
Edit image parameters	×	√	√
HiLight Tags to mark best clips	√	√	×
Create Video from time lapse photos	√	√	×
Extract photos from video	√	√	√
Edit 3D Video	√	√	√ (support 3D to 2D)
Change playback speed	×	√	√

After checking through this full comparison table of the 3 GoPro video editing software for both Windows and Mac, it's easy to figure out that Quik is just a basic GoPro video editor, with little edit functions. And Studio is a good choice for styling GoPro movies, the killer weakness is the user experience caused by the end of life, no errors or bugs would be fixed through official upgrade. The only way to solve GoPro Studio "crashes", "not response", "unable to install on Windows 10" and alike is to seek for some Studio alternatives to restart the editing work, like VideoProc mentioned above.

Part 3 - Edit GoPro or Other Video with Best GoPro Quik/Studio Alternative

Everytime you get frustrated in editing your GoPro sources using GoPro Quik or Studio, or you have no idea on how to fix annoying Quik/Studio processing errors, you can turn to the feature-laden VideoProc to do a more stable and faster editing on computer.

Compared to heavy Quik and Studio, light-weight (47.1MB) yet pro-level VideoProc is more convenient and accepts more operation systems. Two versions are provided for both Windows and macOS desktop respectively. Get its installer free downloaded here and follow the prompt to finish installation in clicks.

Open up VideoProc and enter into Video control to load source GoPro video transferred on local hard drive.

After that, choose an output format as needed, the same as original or not. You are free to check media information by clicking exclamatory mark from software. If you are not so familiar with video formats, VideoProc offers a set of device profiles in Target Format. When you click the graphic icon in the bottom left, a profile window will pop up, in which you can recognize any Apple, Huawei, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and Web sites compatible codecs easily.

Then do the video edits by clicking Effect, Watermark, Cut, Crop, Rotate and Subtitle on the main UI, or head to Toolbox to Deshake, Denoise, Merge, Trim, Split, Rotate, Flip, (Make) GIF, (Take) Snapshot etc. If you have to adjust video parameters like bitrate, resolution, aspect ratio, please hit Codec Option icon in the rear of added video profile to make a change.

Tap the RUN button in the bottom right to export your epic GoPro video piece, and then share it to social sites to gain views and thumb ups.

How to Use VideoProc on Windows 10 or Lower | How to Use VideoProc on macOS Catalina or Lower