

The DJI Phantom 4 records 4K footage on an SD card, you can remove the SD card from the camera, insert the SD card to a card reader, then plug in the card reader into your Mac computer SD card slot for transferring the footage to your Mac local hard drive. Step 1: Transfer DJI Phantom 4 4K video to Mac computer. Step by step to Wrap DJI Phantom 4 4K to AIC for iMovie Editing on macOS Sierra You can trim or cut video to get off unwanted parts or segments, crop to remove the unwanted black borders, merge separate video clips into one, split large video into small parts by file size, count or length, add video/image/ transparent text watermark, remove/replace audio in video, change video color effect like brightness, contrast, saturation, apply special rendering effects or insert external srt/ass/srt subtitles to video. With the program, you can easily transcode DJI Phantom 4 4K to iMovie best favorable Apple Intermediate Codec, FCP native compatible Prores codec or Davinci Resolve most favorable DNxHD codec.īesides that, you can also do some simple video editing on the DJI Phantom 4 4K footage with the program. To produce AIC codec, here a professional program called Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac ( review) is recommended to you. Rewrap DJI Phantom 4 4K to iMovie AIC Codec If you wish to get a fast and smooth editing workflow of DJI Phantom 4 4K with iMovie, you are recommended to rewrap MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 to AIC codec, which features high performance and quality and beging less processor intensive to work with. Best workflow of DJI Phantom 4 4K with iMovieĪlthough DJI Phantom 4 is included in iMovie supported 4K camera list, however, the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec used to compressed DJI Phantom 4 4K footage is a delivery codec but not an idea editing format for iMovie. To play back 4K video in full resolution, you'll need an iMac with Retina display or Mac Pro connected to a 4K display. To enable 4K video editing on iMovie, make sure to download the newest version of iMovie 10.1, in addition, your Mac should be from 2011 or later with at least 4GB of RAM. The following article will show you the basic requirements for editing 4K with iMovie and how to get the best workflow of DJI Phantom 4 4K with iMovie.īasic requirements for editing 4K video with iMovie When the shooting is completed, Mac users can iMovie to turn your great video footage into stunning cinema-quality films by inserting titles, effects or full sound track, etc.

The DJI Phantom 4 utilizes high performance camera to shoot sharp, clear video in up to 4K at 30fps.
