How To Create STAR TRAILS with ANY GOPRO & FREE SOFTWARE

In this video I provide a complete guide to creating star trails using ANY GoPro action camera in combination with free software. The GoPro Hero 11 has the star trails capability built into it, but other GoPro cameras do not. This method I demonstrate makes it possible to create incredible star trails using any GoPro as the capturing device.

Equipment I Use for GoPro Night Lapses and Star Trails:

Table of Contents:
0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - Reference this for night lapse tools I use
1:03 - Auto method star trail settings on the Hero 11
4:52 - Night lapse settings for the star trails manual method
7:02 - The free software you'll need
11:04 - Loading night lapse photos on your computer
11:42 - Adobe DNG photo conversion from GPR to DNG
13:48 - RawTherapee DNG photo editing and export to JPG
19:20 - StarStaX photo assembly and export
24:39 - DaVinci Resolve creation of the finished product
32:48 - Conclusion
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CAMERA GEAR I USE:

MY FAVORITE GOPRO ACCESSORIES:

HIKING GEAR WE USE:

[GreatDayForAHike]

All of the sample star trails that I share in this video are ones that I created using the manual process that I outline in this video. Since the manual process is the focus of this video I wanted to include only star trails created using the manual process. Enjoy!

[alisonandguywildlifephotograph]

Another great tutorial…off to Tanzania in 2 weeks ….definitely going to do all of your star things 👍👏

[amamsingh]

I had a gro pro all along all the time and I didn't know it can create such beautiful star trails. Thanks for the amazing tutorial.

[richardgarcia]

Thank you for this video. I have a GP8 and wanted to compare a Startrail on GP8 to my GP12. Just for fun. This video is great! Thank you again.

[Pattron]

Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge about Gopro`s! It`s really helpful 🙌🙌

[matthewnew]

What an EXCELLENT tutorial. Thank you :)

[raymondyip]

Awesome video. It’s extremely useful on how to shoot a star trails on gopro. But I’ve a question on the sd card and files size; is it 512GB is good enough and would you mind to advice how’s file size of the night photo image took by gopro?

[nandyad]

Thank you for this tutorial.. a gem !! ❤️✨️

[JauneMacReady]

Ah brilliant! Thank you for this tutorial. I'll look forward to giving this a go ❤

[BigDaddyDuke]

What a good video thank you for showing us all of the settings you explain things well.

[avshumekayten]

Great video! So very well explained, thank you for that!

[robertlewisvideo]

Awesome Video. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

[ArsipPetualang]

it's great! now i'm looking on my first Gopro and adding some star trails to my hike vlog. Thanks for sharing, so helpful! 😁

[vegasdood]

Great vid...thanks for the Adobe DNG converter tip....curious why not use the Photoshop Image Processor script to convert from DNG to JPG for StarStax?

[gvega]

Hi, I stumble across your video. I am using DaVinci Resolve v18.6 to edit the time wrap from my GoPro 12 Black. I can't change the clip speed, it is grayed out. Any insights will be appreciated.

[scottmabey]

Great video. I have a question though. I am using the GoPro Hero 11 and doing star trails only gives the video output, therefore the steps with the software do not work as there is no images as such. I am wanting to have a single Star Trail image. - Any advice?

[Sonlight]

I'm trying this for my first time. If you want to do just a regular night lapse of all the edited photos what steps in StarStax do you NOT use or use? before going to Davinci Resolve?

[jarah]

Good video, I have the hero 11… could this process with the free software be used to edit sunrises/sunsets (without the star trax) shot with the photo setting

[MakeOneselfAtHome]

Can't wait to try it out, thanks 👌

[AbhishekPatel-xvks]

Hello sir! I bought a gopro 12 and tried to take my first star trail today. I dint know but the timer is 00:00 even after starting the capture. Also, after few minutes my gopro screen turns off and the red light keeps blinking. Is this normal and should i leave it as it is and let it capture?