Best GoPro Tip You Didn’t Know – How to Record 4K Like GoPro Video In 1080P

Best GoPro 1080P Recording Settings Tip

4K videos are great, but recording in 4K is not a viable option for everyone due to file sizes, difficulty editing, and the higher Internet speed requirement. If you record your GoPro in 1080P, changing this one setting will make your videos 4K-like quality without the 4K-like file sizes.

I am talking about Bit rate. Simply put, Bit rate refers to the amount of data or Bits per second of video or audio capture. The higher the Bit rate, the better the quality and the higher the file size.

Recording in 1080P with a higher Bit rate gives you videos that look like almost 4K, but you won’t be burdened with humongous 4K-like files sizes. Here are some 15-second file size examples out of my GoPro 10:

1080 Resolution 48.6 MB (High Bit Rate) 26.1 MB (Low Bit rate)

4K resolution 169 MB (High Bit Rate) 80.4 MB (Low Bit rate)

As you can see, the 1080 High Bit rate file size is lower than even the 4K Low Bit rate’s. To access this setting, go to any GoPro 8 or above and look under Protune. The nice quality videos you will get from 1080 will not be exactly as high quality as 4K, but you won’t be able to tell the difference when you watch them on YouTube.

If you can’t find High Bit Rate, you most likely have an older version of GoPro as this feature is only available from GoPro Hero 8 and above.

I have a video on High Bit rate explaining further with sample video clips, which you view here:

What No One Told You – How to Record 4K Like GoPro Video In 1080P