GoPro says it will lastly be releasing a brand new desktop modifying app later this yr for the most effective GoPro cameras, which must be a real substitute for the one it discontinued in 2017. However there’s an unlucky catch – the brand new app will solely be free for GoPro subscribers.
Throughout a GoPro earnings name on August 3, the corporate’s CEO Nick Woodman mentioned that in This fall (in different phrases, someday between October and December) it will be “excited to introduce an all-new desktop app that may make it straightforward for GoPro subscribers to prepare and edit their content material”.
That is excellent news for GoPro subscribers who’d fairly edit movies on a PC or Mac than on the GoPro Quik cellular app. GoPro does even have the ‘GoPro Participant + ReelSteady’ app on desktop, however that’s extra of a media participant with specialist modifying instruments, fairly than a real Quik equal.
Promisingly, Woodman added “our new desktop app will sync with our subscribers’ cloud and cellular app to supply a constant and handy expertise throughout platforms”. However then got here the slight stinger: “GoPro subscribers will take pleasure in full entry to the desktop app and all of its highly effective options at no further cost.”
It is not but clear whether or not the brand new desktop modifying app may also be obtainable to non-subscribers, maybe for a small month-to-month cost. However GoPro’s CEO added that the corporate is searching for the app to problem the most effective video modifying software program, because it’ll additionally supply instruments for footage shot on any digicam.
As Woodman said: “There may also be a premium-level subscription providing for customers that wish to import footage from any digicam, increasing GoPro’s relevance as a digital imaging software program resolution to a much wider viewers – a possibility we intend to aggressively pursue over time”.
Whereas that is an attention-grabbing route, GoPro house owners who haven’t got a GoPro Subscription (which prices $49.99 / £49.99 / AU$69.99 per yr, outdoors of particular presents) could also be considerably miffed if it is not obtainable as an possibility for them.
Evaluation: Excellent news, however just for GoPro subscribers
The dearth of a GoPro Quik desktop app to match its cellular model has been a irritating omission for the previous few years, so it is good to listen to one is lastly en route. Nevertheless it’s additionally a slight disgrace that it will seemingly be one other subscription-only function.
GoPro did have a free Quik desktop app a number of years in the past (which changed the older GoPro Studio), but it surely was discontinued as the corporate targeted on turning the Quik cellular app right into a one-stop video editor.
The latter introduced useful new options (like limitless cloud backup), however was additionally solely obtainable with a standalone subscription (for $1.99 / £1.79 / AU$2.99 monthly, or $9.99 / £9.49 / AU$14.99 yearly) or as a part of the broader GoPro Subscription. GoPro’s new desktop app will seemingly have the same setup.
GoPro’s transfer again into software program comes because it tries to develop its Subscriber base (which it revealed stands at 2.44 million folks, up 27% from final yr). The arrival of a desktop app with the identical easy drag-and-drop controls, automated spotlight edits and music syncing because the cellular Quik app definitely sounds helpful, so long as it’s kind of extra secure than the marginally flaky, previous model of desktop Quik.
Whether or not it presents sufficient for many who do not have already got a GoPro Subscription is one thing we’ll have to attend to seek out out – the desktop app will seemingly be introduced alongside the rumored GoPro Hero 12 Black in September.
