GO PRO

[woodguy7]

Anyone using a Go Pro 3 Hero & in particular with a Mac ?

I'm having some trouble getting it set up !

 

[jmbfestool]

I have one and use a Mac

I have no troubles

 

[woodguy7]

Lol, might have guessed you would have one  [big grin]

 

[jmbfestool]

Lol, might have guessed you would have one  [big grin]

Yip! [tongue]

What you having trouble with?

 

[woodguy7]

There was an initial software I couldn't get installed.  Can't remember what it was just now. Will look it up later & get back to you.  [smile]

 

[jmbfestool]

There was an initial software I couldn't get installed.  Can't remember what it was just now. Will look it up later & get back to you.  [smile]

All you need to do is go on go-pro website and do the update and plug ur go pro in.

I wouldn't I still the video editing software for it its crap dead slow.

 

[Harvey]

To update the camera's firmware you need Java on your mac. If you're have the leopard/ snow leopard operating system (OS X 10.6 and earlier) it's from Apple support- software downloads.
If you're on lion (OS X 10.7 and later) it's from Oracle. I did the firmware update using the manual install- I think  you need  the camera serial number before hand (it's written in the battery compartment).

I never bothered with the go-pro editing stuff.
I use The go-pro's USB to connect with the mac (the micro-sd appears on the desktop) & upload/delete files manually. Note that if you plug the micro-sd card directly in the mac you don't have the permissions to delete/alter files.
From there it's iMovie ($15).

 

[woodguy7]

Its Java I'm having trouble with.  I downloaded it but couldn't get it it un zipped & installed.  Cant seem to get any further until i get it installed.  It wouldn't do an auto install for some reason ?

 

[Harvey]

Edit:

I was wrong- if you do a manual install, you don't need Java-

good luck with it!

 

[PaulMarcel]

Its Java I'm having trouble with.  I downloaded it but couldn't get it it un zipped & installed.  Cant seem to get any further until i get it installed.  It wouldn't do an auto install for some reason ?

Rather than diagnose what went wrong, here are the steps:

- Start Safari, even if you prefer a different browser.
- Go to Java.com and click "Free Java Download" then agree and download
- By default, the download (a .dmg) lands in your downloads directory.  Double-click it to see this:

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- uhm... double-click the box icon and it will install Java 7r25 (note: at no point is there a zip file involved; if you are getting a zip file, you messed up)
- Go back and quit Safari
- Launch Safari again (surest way to ensure Java get reloaded)
- Click Safari/Preferences in the menu (or cmd-comma)
- Click the Security tab and make sure "Allow Java" is checked and close the preferences window
- This next part is the key to get Java hooked into the browser properly... so put your beer down and pay attention...
- Visit this page in Safari:  http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
- That page includes instructions to the browser to say it needs to use Java so you may get asked if it is okay to run Java (hit allow) and if it is okay to run the test tool (hit allow).  Ideally, you could have browsed to this page way back on the first step and it would have given you update steps, etc, but some of what you explained was pretty messed up so I thought to go through that manually to get it set correctly.
- Now that Java is successfully hooked in, you can go, from Safari, to GoPro.com/update
- On the update page, Hero3 software is right up top; other models are in a menu below. You'll run a Java program from that (after allowing it).  It will query your connected camera for its serial number and software version.  It will then download the appropriate update package and script and place those on the camera's SD card for you.  You'll end up restarting the camera and leaving it as it goes through updating the various subsystems of the camera.

It's not that hard; I just listed it step by step so if something is wrong in your configuration, it won't get in the way.  If something above fails, tell me which step and we'll figure it out.  You have my email, too, so just bug me there as it is quicker.

 

[woodguy7]

cheers dude  [thumbs up]

expect an email  ;D

 

[woodguy7]

Got it updated.  Thanks to Paul Marcel, Harvey & Fatroman  [thumbs up]

The problem was as much to do with me not being up to speed with the Macs operating system.  I have to say once you get used to it they truly are better than Windows machines  [bite tongue]

 

[bpitch]

Got it updated.  Thanks to Paul Marcel, Harvey & Fatroman  [thumbs up]

The problem was as much to do with me not being up to speed with the Macs operating system.  I have to say once you get used to it they truly are better than Windows machines  [bite tongue]

It all depends on what you do.
as i work in Solidworks, Mac is a no-no for me

P.S. Windows 7 is pretty good and stable [cool]

 

[PaulMarcel]

It all depends on what you do.
as i work in Solidworks, Mac is a no-no for me

P.S. Windows 7 is pretty good and stable [cool]

My Windows boxes were always stable.  So were my old Macs (uh, yeah, 680x0-based).  My new iMac is stable, but has some stupid OSX-based problems.  Early versions of Lion had me regretting the upgrade; leaked memory like a sieve.  Two minor releases a lot later (yeah, let's be honest "service packs") and the sieve got patched.

I usually find that the stability of a system has more to do with the user than the system.

Dunno if you've tried Windows 8 yet.  I'll be getting it later this week.  Other than Metro being a bust, I've only heard good great things about the speed and runtime footprint.  I think some complain more about Metro on forums than they do looking up how to go straight to the start menu.  8.1 fixes that.