Combing the Karma Quadcopter with the Hero 5 Black action camera, the GoPro Hero 5 Black becomes a fully integrated aerial imaging tool. With the GoPro Karma, you can record up to 30fps UHD video in MP4 format.
Play GoPro Karma 4K video on PC/Mac
Don't want to just stop at the footage shooting stage, after transferring the footage from the camera to your PC or Mac computer, you may also come the need to play the GoPro Karam footage on your PC with Windows Media Player, on Mac with QuickTime player or transfer and view the GoPro Karma 4K video on iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, Windows phone/tablet or stream to TV via media streaming devices or game consoles, etc. But due to the incompatible file format, compression codec, file size, bit rate, frame rate, etc, you may either fail to open the GoPro Karma 4K video with those programs or devices or won't get a smooth playback experience. The following article will offer a all in one stop solution to get GoPro Karma 4K video played on PC/Mac.
Best way to play GoPro Karma 4K video on PC/Mac
Even though the Gopro Karma 4K MP4 format is widely supported by majority of media player software or devices on both PC and Mac. It won't be that easily to successfully get 4K video smoothly played. The main reason is that 4K video playback has strict requirements on both hardware and software. Your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements to play 4K video, sometimes, even if your computer are powerful to handle 4K video, you may still find that the 4K video playback is very choppy, this is due to the immense processing power required to play 4K video.
Therefore, to get a smooth playback experience of Gopro Karma 4K video on PC or Mac, it would be much ideal for you to compress 4K to 1080p. Here, you can easily get the job done with our best 4K Video Conversion tool: Pavtube Video Converter, which assists you to compress Gopro Karma 4K video to 1080p or 720p video in various HD file formats such as H.264 HD MP4, H.264 HD MOV, H.265 HD, MPEG-4 HD MP4, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-TS HD, MKV HD, WMV HD, Divx HD, AVI HD, BDAV HD, etc for smooth playback experience on PC/Mac with Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, VLC or portable devices like iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, Windows phone/tablet or streaming to TV via media streaming devices or game consoles.
Pavtube Video Converter is is available on Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7. It is accompanied by an up-to-date Mac version - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac for macOS Sierra and its previous version. The program is very clean since it doesn't feature any ads or bundled adware. In addition, it can produce high-quality results, you can't tell the difference between the converted video and the original Gopro Karma 4K video.
Step by Step to Convert and Compress Gopro Karma 4K video for Playing on PC/Mac
Step 1: Load Gopro Karma 4K video.
Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Gopro Karma 4K video into the program.
Step 2: Define the output format.
Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, you can choose to compress Gopro Karma 4K video a popular HD file formats such as "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" under "HD Video" main category so that you can smoothly playback the Gopro Karma 4K video on Mac/PC with media player apps or transfer to iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, Windows phone/tablet, etc for viewing on the move.
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Step 3: Compress 4K to 1080p.
Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, in video section, click "Size(pix)" drop-down list and select "1980*1020" or "1080*720" to compress Gopro Karma 4K to 1080p. You can also adjust other profile parameters including video codec, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.
Step 4: Begin the conversion process.
After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin to convert and compress Gopro Karma 4K video for playing and editing on Mac/PC.
When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel free to transfer and play the generated video on computer with media players, on portable devices or load into video editing software.
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