Upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K to YouTube

Upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K to YouTube

Have did a 4K video of your DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ flight, after spending long hours uploading to YouTube, the quality was still awful. You know that there are enough 4K videos on YouTube from fellow members and you firmly believe that the uploading job can be done really well with good quality. So what is the secret? The article article will show you the best format and settings to fast upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K to YouTube.

Best 4K uploading settings for YouTube

To let your video upload successfully and look beautiful on YouTube, make you to optimize you Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video with the following settings for format, codec, frame rate, bit rate, resolution, time length and file size limitation.

Container: MP4

Video codec: H.264
Progressive scan not interlacing
High Profile
2 consecutive B frames
Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate.
CABAC
Variable bitrate, no bit rate limit required, though we offer recommended bit rates below for reference,
Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0

Audio codec: AAC-LC
Channels: Stereo or Stereo + 5.1
Sample rate 96khz or 48khz

Compatible frame rate and bit rate for 4K video uploading

Resolution	Video Bitrate, Standard Frame Rate (24, 25, 30)	Video Bitrate, High Frame Rate (48, 50, 60)
2160p (4k)	35-45 Mbps	53-68 Mbps

Audio bit rate for uploads

Type	Audio Bitrate
Mono	128 kbps
Stereo	384 kbps
5.1	512 kbps

Resolution and aspect ratio

YouTube uses 16:9 aspect ratio players. If you're uploading a non-16:9 file, it will be processed and displayed correctly as well, with pillar boxes (black bars on the left and right) or letter boxes (black bars at the top and bottom) provided by the player.

Time and file size limitations for YouTube video upload

Size: Make sure you're using an up-to-date version of your browser so you can upload files greater than 20GB. The maximum file size you can upload to YouTube is 128GB.
Length: By default, you can upload videos that are up to 15 minutes long, but you can upload longer videos by following the steps below to verify your account.
1. go to the upload page at youtube.com/upload.
2. At the bottom of the page, click Increase your limit. You can also go directly to https://www.youtube.com/verify.
3. Follow the steps to verify your account. You can choose to receive a verification code through a text message on a mobile phone or an automated voice call.
4. Once you've verified your account, you can upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes long

Upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K to YouTube with best settings

The DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ shot both 4K H.264 video at 60fps and 4K H.265 video at 30fps with a maximum bit rate of 100 Mbps. Here, if you try to upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K H.264 60fps video to YouTube, just lower the output bit rate as YouTube supported bit rate range between 53-68. If you try to upload Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K H.265 30fps video to YouTube, you will not only need to change the video codec to 4K H.264 but also the bit rate between a range from 35-45 Mbps.

Here, you can get YouTube best uploading settings listed above from Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video with the assistant of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (get Mac version). It not only assists you to export Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K H.264/H.265 to YouTube most favorable 4K format, but also flexibly change other profile settings such as video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels, etc to make them adapt with YouTube best sharing settings listed above.

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Trim/Split Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video

If the Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video you try to upload to YouTube exceeds the upload length limitation, you can use the trim function of the program to shorten the video length by cutting off unwanted parts from the beginning or end. If the video file size is too large, feel free to split it into smaller by file size, count or length.

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Step by step to Upload DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K to YouTube with Best Uploading Settings

Step 1: Load DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video into the program.

Start the program on your computer, click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to import DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video.

Step 2: Output Youtube best uploading format for 4K video.

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down options, choose YouTube best compatible uploading format from "Common VIdeo" > "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)".

Step 3: Tweak encoding settings for YouTube upload.

Click "Hit "Settings" to open the "Profile Settings" window, here you can adjust the output video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels to let them fit them YouTube.

Step 4: Trim/Split video file.

If the 4K video is longer than 15 minutes, you can shorten the video length with the trimming function to set the start time and end time to remove unwanted clips from the video.

If the 4K video exceeds the uploading file size limitation, you split the file by file count, time length, or file size in the video splitting window.

Step 5: Start the conversion.

Start DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video to YouTube best format conversion by hitting the right bottom convert button, when the conversion is over, you will have no limitation to upload and share DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ 4K video on YouTube with fast speed and perfect quality.

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Edit DJI Mavic Air 4K Video with iMovie

As the most portable DJI drone, the Mavic Air houses a 3-axis gimbal to shoot 8K Sphere panoramas, HDR photos, 4K 30 fps 100 Mbps video, and slow-motion video in 1080p at 120 fps. For Mac users who are looking for a free but professional editing software to handle the DJI Mavic Air 4K video, iMovie can be your best choice. Then how about the workflow of Mavic Air 4K video with iMovie?

Can iMovie native import Mavic Air 4K video

Apple has also updated iMovie 10.1 for Mac with support for 4K editing, in addition, the 4K H.264/MOV video shot with Mavic Air is also included in iMovie supported editing formats. However, it is well known that H.264 is a good delivery file format but no a good editing format. In addition, if your Mac computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements to edit 4K video, you won't get a smooth editing workflow.

Best editing codec for iMovie editing Mavic Air 4K video

For those people who wish to get a high quality and high performance editing workflow of Mavic Air 4K video with iMovie on underpowered computer, it would be much idea for you to transcode and compress Mavic Air 4K to iMovie favorable less processor-intensive editing codec - Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) with either 1080p or 720p file resolution.

Here, you can download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to directly generate Apple Intermediate Codec from Mavic Air 4K video. The program supports batch conversion mode, so that you can load multiple Mavic Air 4K video into the application for conversion at one time to save your precious time.

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The application not only assists you to encode Apple Intermediate Codec efficiently from Mavic Air 4K video, but also assists you to downscale Mavic Air 4K to 1080p or 720p so that you can get a smooth editing workflow even on slow Mac computer.

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac has perfect compatibility with the new macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite and Mac OS X Mavericks, etc. It is very simple to use, anyone can learn to use it in minutes. What's more, it produces high quality conversion results with better video/audio quality.

Step by Step to Transcode and Compress Mavic Air 4K to iMovie 1080p AIC

Step 1: Load Mavic Air 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 Mavic Air 4K video into the program.

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).

Step 3: Compress 4K to 1080p.

Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, from "Size(pix)" drop-down list, choose "1980*1020" or "1080*720" to compress 4K to 1080p.

Step 4: Edit Mavic Air 4K video.

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.

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 and compress Mavic Air 4K video to iMovie best compatible Apple Intermediate Codec editing format with 1080p file resolution.

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.

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Import Video_TS to FCP X

What is Video_TS folder?

When you insert a video DVD into your computer, you can open the DVD and view the contents just like a folder on your hard drive. Most video DVDs have two folders in the root directory - AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. The VIDEO_TS folder contains all the DVD's video data and playback information. There are three kinds of files inside a Video_TS folder: VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.VOB.

Import Video_TS folder to FCP X?

Obviously, Video_TS folder doesn#8217;t natively work with FCP X, you must convert the Video_TS folder to FCP X supported editing file formats. As a matter of fact, what you need is simply a Mac Video_TS Converter. The program we highly recommend to you here is called Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac, it has perfect compatibility with the all Mac OS including macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X Mavericks, etc.

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Apart from the Video_TS folder, the program also provides loading support for DVD disc, IFO/ISO image file and also Blu-ray disc/BDMV folder/ISO image file. With this powerful yet simple to use application, you can not only transcode Video_TS to FCP X editable digital file formats such as MP4, MOV (QuickTime), DV, HDV, etc file formats, but also directly output FCP X most favorable high quality and high performance editing codec - Apple Prores in different file types including Apple Prores 422, Apple Prores 422 HQ, Apple Prores 422 Proxy, Apple Prores 422 LT, etc for different editing needs on either powerful or underpowered Mac computer.

Step by Step to Import and Edit Video_TS Folder with FCP X

Step 1: Load Video_TS folder.

Download, install and run this Video_TS Converter on your Mac computer. For loading DVD Video_TS Folder, just click "File" > "Load from folder", you can also load DVD disc by clicking "File" > "Load from disc" or load DVD IFO/ISO image by clicking "File" > "Load IFO/ISO".

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, you can choose one of FCP X best compatible editing formats such as "MOV - QuickTime(*.mov)" under "Common Video" main category.

If you wish to achieve a high quality and high performance editing workflow of Video_TS with FCP X, just output FCP X most preferable "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)" under "Final Cut Pro" main category to get the optimal editing experience.

Step 3: Edit Video_TS files with built-in editing options.

By default the Edit icon is grayed out. To activate the Edit menu, you have to select an item first. When a movie title or chapter is selected 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.

Step 4: Begin the final conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin Video_TS to FCP X supported editing formats or most preferable Apple Prores editing codec transcoding process.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then just feel feel to import converted video to FCP X for professional post editing workflow.

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Transcode H.265 to Prores

The relatively new H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) offers roughly double the compression ratio for the same quality. This means that a video file encoded with HEVC can occupy half the space of its H.264 equivalent with no noticeable change in quality, or the same amount of space with improved quality. H.265 is adopted for shooting 4K quality resolution by more and more cameras such as Samsung NX1/NX500, DJI Phantom 4 Pro, DJI Inspire 2, GoPro Hero 6 and even some iPhone models such as iPhone 7/7 Plus/8/8 Plus/X. However, the problem is that many editing application lacks the ability to handle this new editing codec. Even both Premiere Pro CC has officially claimed importing support for H.265 video with a resolution of up to 8K, however, unless you owns a very powerful computer, you won't get a smooth editing workflow, since the decoding of H.265 video especially 4K H.265 video is very processor intensive. The good news is that by encoding H.265 to Prores codec, you can get many great benefits listed below during the post editing workflow with many professional NLE applications.

Great advantages of Prores codec when using as an editing codec

- Perfect compatibility with various popular NLE software including Premiere Pro CC, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, Lightworks, etc.
- Supports all of the current frame size such as SD, HD, 2K, 4K and 5K
- As a 10 bit codec, Apple Prores can process a lot of more color data and make the color correction process easier.

Best tool to encode H.265 to Prores on PC and Mac

When you are searching on the market, you may find that there are many Prores Converter can assist you to transcode H.265 to Prores. However, some may only be available on Mac platform, others may lacks the ability to perfectly handle H.265 codec especially 4K H.265 codec.

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Fortunately, here comes Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, a cross-platform application that's can be downloaded and installed on both Windows (get Windows version) and Mac platform. The program has perfect importing support for both HD/4K H.265 codec wrapped with different container file formats including MP4, MOV and MKV. It allows you to directly convert H.265 to Apple Prores codec in different file types including Apple Prores 422, Apple Prores 422 HQ, Apple Prores 422 LT, Apple Prores 422 Proxy, Apple Prores 4444, etc to satisfy your different editing demands. If you have a powerful computer and you wish to do more effects editing, just choose the Apple Prores 422, Apple Prores 422 HQ format, if you just want to do some rough editing on slow computer or for offline editing, the Apple Prores 422 Proxy or Apple Prores would be a good choice.

Step by Step to Transcode H.265 to Prores for NLE Editing

Step 1: Load H.265 files into the application.

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 source H.265 files into the program.

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select your desired Prores format according to your own needs.

Output Apple Prores 422 or 422 HQ format

Output Apple Prores 422 Proxy or LT format

Step 3: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from H.265 to Prores with your desired file types.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can get a smooth workflow of Prores in NLE editing software.

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