Editing software

[Cigalert]

Hmm...that's weird, I've never had an issue with iMovie. But like Cig said, iMovie can do all of that and it's pretty easy. I don't have any experience with final cut but Adobe is pretty difficult to use compared to iMovie.

Does it give an error when you try to load the footage?

I was going to say, if you can't figure out iMovie then you shouldn't be even looking in the windows of Final Cut. Final Cut is very capable and not so fresh off the boat user friendly.

I get an error when trying to load. I'll take a screen shot tonight if I can.

You can try to download handbrake (free software) and run your raw GoPro files through there first. There are multiple formats within handbrake to save your re-run but some times GoPro footage becomes corrupt and needs a handbrake run to clean things up. I don't think file size has anything to do with it but I have noticed that larger files have been getting broken up into smaller segments quite a bit lately.