GoPro Hero 10 Video has no audio and plays slow motion in Lightroom.

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July 16, 2022
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I have imported some GoPro Hero 10 videos into Lightroom (not classic) and they play in slow motion and have no audio. I am running on a Macbook Monterey 12.4 and am able to play the videos on other players on my computer, Lyn, Quicktime and Handbrake without any problem.

The video file is an HEVC, 3840x2160 and 120 FPS with a single audio track AAC, 48000hz.

I am sure I can convert every video I have to work with lightroom, but seems like it should be able to handle this video file format.

Please help.

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Benjamin Warde

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To expand on what Peter said, this isn't so much a limitation as a deliberate design decision. Our assumption is that if the frame rate is over 60 FPS then the expectation is that it's supposed to be a slow motion video. (The fact that audio is not handled for slow motion videos is a current limitation.)

This is a safe assumption for many videos (e.g., high frame rate videos recorded on a phone play back in slow motion in the native player on the phone). But perhaps it is not a safe assumption for all videos. I'd love to hear more about your use of high frame rate video recording, what you use it for, why it's important to you to record (and play back) at 120 FPS rather than 60 FPS, etc.

Thanks,

Ben

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PowerbeeAuthor

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Ben, thanks for your response and explanation. The GoPro Hero 10 has the native ability to record video with 120 frames per second, even though they are not slow motion videos. It creates a smoother video especially as typical GoPro videos have more activity and action. If I play the same video on any of my devices, they all play correctly and not in slow motion. But as you mentioned Lightroom is treating all videos with a higher frame rate than 60 as slow motion videos. Perhaps there is something else in the meta data that you can use to find slow motion videos vs videos with higher frame rates.

I would prefer to not have to convert all of my GoPro videos to 60 FPS before I load them into Lightroom. The other option for me would be to lower the frame rate on the GoPro video to 60 FPS, which is also not ideal. I think there will be more devices able to create videos with a higher frame rate than 60 even though they are not slow motion, so I think it is worthwhile to address this issue. One possible solution is to ask the user or allow the user to manually set whether the video is slow motion or not.

Thanks

Brian