Have shot some 4K H.265 video with your GoPro Hero 6 camera and wish to load the 4K footage into Avid Media Composer for some professional post editing workflow. The following article will show you how to get a smooth workflow of GoPro Hero 6 4K H.265 with Avid Media Composer.
Can Avid handle all GoPro Hero 6 4K H.265 video?
From Avid Media Composer supported file formats, we can see this professional editing software lacks the ability to direct handle 4K H.265 video shot with GoPro Hero 6 camera. What's more, as Avid's system requirements for 4K editing at quite high. You should have a dual 10 core Xeon system as an "entry level" 4K editing suite and ideally a faster computer for more 4K editing. It would be much ideal for you to compress 4K to 1080p for smooth editing.
Transcode GoPro Hero 6 4K for Avid Media Composer
To fix the codec incompatible issue, you can download a third-party video conversion app called Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to decode the unsupported 4K H.265 to Avid Media Composer most favorable 1080p DNxHD codec. The program supports batch conversion mode, so that you can load multiple GoPro Hero 6 4K into the application for conversion at one time.
Besides that, you can also flexibly adjust output profile parameters such as video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.
The program is available on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X Mavericks, etc. It is accompanied by an up-to-date Windows version - Pavtube Video Converter for Windows 10/8.1/8/7.
Step by Step to Transcode and Compress GoPro Hero 6 4K H.265 for Avid Editing
Step 1: Load GoPro Hero 6 4K H.265 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 Hero 6 4K H.265 video files into the program.
Step 2: Choose output file format.
From "Format" drop-down option, choose Avid Media Composer best editing codec by selecting "Avid Media Composer..." > "Avid DNxHD(*.mov)".
Step 3: 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 GoPro Hero 6 4K H.265 video to Avid Media Composer best compatible 1080p DNxHD Codec editing format.
When the conversion is completed, launch Avid Media Composer on your Mac computer to import converted video to Avid Media Composer for smooth editing workflow on either fast or slow computer.
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