Showing posts with label gopro hero6 to imovie. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Can You Edit GoPro Hero6 Footages with iMovie? Tips for You!

You've been on the holiday to end all holidays, captured hours of stunning footage and now it's time to do something with it. Great, the boring bit. While GoPro Hero6 are brilliant bits of kit, turning all that raw footage into something shareable, memorable and entertaining can be a bit of a chore. For Mac users, iMovie would be a good choice for you to edit your video and share with family and friends. However, have you met some issues when you try to import GoPro Hero6 footages to iMovie for further editing? Don't worry, you will find solid answer from this article.

As we all know, GoPro records in MPEG-4 and outputs its files as .MP4 files (the container). GoPro Hero6 pumps up its video and photo cred by adding a brawnier processor chip which unlocks 4K video shooting at 60p, or 60 full frames per second. Moreover, in order to pull off these new shooting modes, GoPro's leveraging the new-school video codec, High-Efficiency Video Coding (aka H.265). That's great since HEVC is, as its name implies, a high-efficiency way of recording video. Now, we have already had a rough idea of what we can get form GoPro Hero6, now we have to discuss about what video format and codec does iMovie use.

iMovie is a Mac OS X or iOS based video editing software application created by Apple Inc. iMovie supports multiple video formats and allows you to create projects that are tailored to your specific video format. You can use the following formats in iMovie: DV, HDV, AVCHD, Apple Intermediate Codec, Apple Animation Codec, Apple ProRes, Motion JPEG/A, iFrame, h.264, some, but not all, varieties of MP4, MOV. As .mov or .mp4 is a container, if it contains video codec in one of the above, it will import to iMovie, or it will fail to import to iMovie.

Up to now, I believe that you may be clearer about what we will talk about next. As we all know, MP4 is not friendly to non-linear editing software. So you need to find a more compatiable format to iMovie. Here comes MOV. A MOV file is a common multimedia container file format developed by Apple and compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms. And MOV file extension is one of the most used video container format in video editing softwares.

So converting GoPro Hero6 MP4 to MOV will be the best choice, however, you need a third software which can help you ahieve this goal. Pavtube Video Converter/for Mac is highly recommend to you which will never let you down by converting GoPro Hero6 MP4 to QuickTime(*.mov), H.264 HD Video(*.mov), iMovie native format - Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov), Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, and more.

Although Apple has cliamed that macOS High Sierra could support play HEVC files, if you worry about if GoPro Hero6 h.265 files will be imported into iMovie or not, you can convert GoPro HEVC to h.264 for successfully editing via iMovie. Moreover, GoPro Hero6 will shoot 4k video at 60p, if you have got such kind of video then edit it with iMovie but it is very jerky, now it is time to use Pavtube Video Converter to change 4k video at 60p to 30p for smooth edit. Follwing we will go with Mac version to help you convert GoPro Hero6 footage to iMovie for perfect edit.

Step By Step to Convert GoPro Hero6 to iMovie for Edit

Step 1: Download Mac version and import GoPro Hero6 4K HEVC footage

Download Mac version on your Mac, open it, you can click the "Load file" or "Add Video" icon on the main interface to import 4K HEVC files into the program. Or you can directly drag or drop GoPro 4k HEVC into it.

load gopro hero6 4k hevc

Step 2: Output iMovie supported video format.

Here are 3 options for you to choose. Click "Format" drop-down list, scroll down the main menu on the left, select "iMovie and Final Cut Express", from its extended otpion list, choose "Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)". Or you can select "H.264 HD Video(*.mov)" from "HD Video", "QuickTime(*.mov)" from "Common Video".

output format

Step 3: Adjust video parameters

You are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters if you are not satisfied with the default settings. Presets like size, bitrate, frame rate, audio channels, etc. can be customized in your own way. Here you can change 4k at 60p to 30p to prevent jarky edit.

mov imovie settings

Step 4: Edit video

This software also works as a professional video editor. Click pen icon on the main interface, and entre "Video Editor", here are 7 main tabs for you, including: Trim, Crop, Text Watermark, Image/Video Watermark, Effect, Audio Editor, Subtitle.

video editor

Step 5: Start GoPro Hero6 4k HEVC conversion

Up to now, you may have finished all settings, now, you can hit "Convert" button to convert GoPro Hero6 HEVC to iMovie. Just wait for a second, click "Open" and it will pop up a folder with the generated files. Now you can import the file to iMovie and do some editing work without any obstacle.