Much improved on the original Quik app and a total refresh for all GoPro users, the action camera maker’s new device-agnostic app has a slick new user interface including new filters, tools and music. Once you’re done you can export the video to your camera roll, directly to linked accounts for Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, or generate a share link. Sadly, that feature is limited to subscribers, as are a plethora of exclusive filters and music tracks. That’s really handy for, say, a ski run, which you can speed through then slow-down for a jump or any interesting moment. Most impressive of all is a new multi-speed mode that allows you to adjust the speed of a video mid-clip. It’s also possible to extract still images from videos. Each video or photo in a reel can be adjusted for exposure, contrast, colour and vibrancy, and it can be trimmed, cropped, filtered, and text added. However, everything is simple to change, with basic re-ordering of clips and photos a drag-and-drop affair while inserting and new content is easy. Footage is brief, zoomed-in on, and centred upon, so sometimes photos are mistakenly cropped, while transitions between them are very basic. The compilation highlight videos are beat-synced to music, but they’re very simple.
The automatic edits can be basic, but you can change the settings and the GoPro Quik app offers a good deal of control.
