Summary: Want to edit AJA Cion 4K video in Avid Media Composer but it is very taxing on your Mac? In this case, you need to convert 4K video to DNxHD MOV for Avid instead. Learn how to.
AJA’s CION is a new ergonomic professional production camera, capable of shooting at 4K/UltraHD and 2K/HD resolutions. “4K” has become the hottest word in the digital photography and video field in recent years. Lots of 4K products such as 4K camcorders, 4K TVs, 4K movies are springing up. However, format compatibility issue is quite common in the video world, which is also true to the stunning 4K.
Although Avid Media Composer has already had 4K and “high-resolution” (i.e., higher-than-4K) support via Avid Media Access (AMA) in previous versions and now the 4K to Avid Media Composer workflow has been even improved in Media Composer 8. Whereas, there's actually no way to edit a 4K project natively with Avid. In most cases, editing 4K raw in Avid Media Composer is very taxing on your Mac. An ultimate solution we found would be to convert 4K video to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer.
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Main Supported Video Formats for Avid Media Composer:
DNxHD: This is Avid’s baby. All kinds of DNxHD are supported natively via either of the import methods mentioned above.
H.264: H.264 is the ubiquitous codec, and it looks like it will stay for quite some time. Avid Media Composer supports H.264 natively, via AMA as mentioned above.
MPEG-4: Like H.264, Avid Media Composer supports MPEG-4 natively, via AMA as mentioned above. The Quicktime plug-ins are installed by default.
All in all, to smoothly import AJA Cion 4K video to Avid Media Composer, you’d better to convert 4K video to Avid MC totally compatible formats as we searched above. To get the job well done, we need to use an all-in-one program-Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac (review), applying which you are capable of converting AJA Cion 4K video to DNxHD MOV format, the compatible video format with Avid MC, with lossless quality at faster speed so that you can edit 4K videos in Avid without any problem. Besides, the program is developed with some useful editing features, including merging several clips into one for easy importing, downsizing the files for editing and storage, adding text/image/video to original files, adding subtitles, replacing original audio tracks, etc.
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How to convert AJA Cion 4K video to DNxHD MOV for Avid MC?
Step 1: Download and have a quick installation. The trial version will have a watermark on your converted files. Except for that, there are no time limitation, no virus, and no unnecessary bundle apps while downloading. After that, click “Add Video” button to load AJA Cion 4K video. You can load several files at once thanks to “Add from folder” button.
Step 2: Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” as output format.
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button on the bottom of the screen to start AJA Cion 4K video to DNxHD MOV conversion process. The amount of time it takes will vary based on your system’s hardware and the quality settings you selected.
Conclusion: When the conversion is done, you can click “Open” button to get the generated video files. Now, you can edit AJA Cion 4K video in Avid Media Composer freely.
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