Many forums I read seem to have people asking about Protune and why its better. There are also a number of videos online that show Protune on and the videos look washed out and bland.

There are many explanations online but put simply Protune is a RAW mode essentially for the video you are taking. It will only look good once you go into the post production process and begin to bring out the best in your video.

Here is a quick example I filmed the other day of the GoPros latest resolution of 2.7K using the standard 30fps and Wide field of view both in plain Protune mode, and with a few tweaks thrown in for good measure.

There are limitless ways the end rseult could look, this is by no means a best example scenario, it was done purely to illustrate that the plain bland washed out videos people are uploading, need not be so dull.

All editing of the RAW video was done with the freely downloadable Cineform Studio software available from GoPro and then thrown together for youtube in Cyberlink PowerProducer 10.