Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Edit DJI Zenmuse X7 4K Video with iMovie

The Zenmuse X7 is a compact Super 35 camera with an integrated gimbal made for high-end filmmaking that delivers stunning resolution and image quality. Its compatibility with the Inspire 2 offers the best in next-level professional aerial cinematography. This camera system offers multiple recording options, including 6K video at 17:9 and 16:9 aspect ratios, DCI 4K at 30 fps, and UHD 4K at 60 fps in Cinema-DNG format; it also supports DCI and UHD 4K in ProRes and H.265/H.264.

Edit DJI Zenmuse X7 4K with iMovie

For Mac users, you can turn the Zenmuse X7 4K video into stunning movies or trailers by loading DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video to iMovie. The following will talk about the workflow of DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video with iMovie.

iMovie has included 4K video editing support since the version 10.1, however, this doesn't mean that you can throw any 4K video to it. As for DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video, it only has the capability to handle 4K H.264 and 4K Prores video, but will fail to recognize the 4K H.265 and 4K Cinema-DNG video.

Transcode DJI Zenmuse X7 4K to iMovie

To fix the codec incompatible issue, it would be a good option for you to transcode the unsupported 4K H.265 or 4K Cinema-DNG video shot with DJI Zenmuse X7 4K to iMovie favorable Apple Intermediate Codec.

If you are looking for a simple to use application to get the job completed, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to you. The program has full importing support for all the unsupported 4K video including 4K H.265 and 4K Cinema-DNG video recorded with DJI Zenmuse X7. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video into the application at one time for conversion to save your precious time.

Here, you can efficiently encode DJI Zenmuse X7 4K H.265/Cinema-DNG 4K video to iMovie most favorable Apple Intermediate Codec. As an intermediate format that features high performance and quality, being less processor intensive to work with than other editing formats.
Edit DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video

The program can also work as a simple Mac video editor to assist you to complete some simple video editing work. You can trim unwanted video segments from the video, crop video to remove the black bars, add transparent text watermark, apply special rendering effects, insert external srt/ass/ssa subtitles, etc.

Step by Step to Transcoded DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video to AIC for iMovie Editing

Step 1: Import DJI Zenmuse X7 4K videos.

From "File" drop-down option, select "add Video/Audio"to add DJI Zenmuse X7 4K H.265/Cinema-DNG 4K files into the program.

Load DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video

Step 2: Choose output file format.

From "Format" drop-down option, choose iMovie best editing codec by selecting "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." > "Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)(*.mov).

Output iMovie best editing codec

Step 3: Edit DJI Zenmuse X7 4K videos.

By default the Edit icon is grayed out. To activate the Edit menu, you have to select an item first. When a video or movie is selected, click the pencil like Edit icon on the left top tool bar to open the video editor window, here, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip or rotate video, trim, crop, add watermark, apply special effect, edit audio or insert external subtitle.

Edit DJI Zenmuse X7 4K video

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all the settings is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start to convert DJI Zenmuse X7 4K to iMovie best compatible Apple Intermediate Codec editing format.

When the conversion is completed, launch iMovie on your Mac computer to import converted video to iMovie for smooth editing workflow on either fast or slow Mac computer.