4K is an up-and-coming video technology that promises a better quality picture when you're watching movies or TV shows. You can get video with 4k resolution from many where, including downloaded from Youtube, shot with UHD camcoders (Panasonic, Sony, DJI, GoPro etc), digitalize 4K Blu-ray movies. However, no matter where your 4K videos come from, for film-making lovers, edit 4K footage with iMovie to do postproduction is a good idea. But for some people who owned a old computer it is painful. Just like the man below:
"Hey Guys,
as I'm going on travels and just having a Macbook Air (2011) with me I'm having trouble editing 4k material. (Actually, even playback 4k material is a pain on that device)
So I'm wondering what's the best option for my limited hardware. Should I still record 4k material (Which I could use once home and back at my powerful desktop) but compress it down to 1080p material for the video's that I'm going to create during travels? If so, what's the easiest and fastest way to compress the material coming from the Mavic Air SD down to 1080p.
What would be your recommendation?"
This guy is looking for one way for editing DJI Mavic Air 4K on iMovie smoothly, he asked for a professional DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p converter which can make it easy for editing 4k footage on his old computer. So here I will share an easy-to-use and professional 4k to 1080p video converter which is deaigned for you to compress or convert 4k video by changing video format or adjusting video settings, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac | Windowscomes as winnes from its competitors will ever let you down.
Apart from compressing DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p without any video quality loss, it also supports you to choose any video format from it formats list. With it, you are able to 4K MKV, 4K MP4, 4K MOV, 4K AVCHD etc to it and output MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, M4V etc with 4K/2K/SD/HD resolution. Moreover, many optimized devices presets including iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Xbox, Samsung, Apple, TVs, Wii u, HTC, and more for you to select, so you are free to get the most standard video format for inputting to iMovie for postpruduction. Besides, if you are familiar with the video parameters, you are able to adjust video audio codec, rasolution, bit rate, frame rate, channels, and more.
With this converter, you are able to edit DJI Mavic Air 4K footage before you output, such as you can merge several 4k footage parts into one, trim to cut the part you don't need, crop the black area or the area you want to cut, remove or replace the audio of the source video, add external subtitle to the 4K footage, more thing you can do please refer to this article.
Step by Step to Compress DJI Mavic Air 4K to 1080p for Editing in iMovie
Step 1: Load DJI Mavic Air 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 Mavic Air 4K video.
Step 2. Select iMovie most standard video format
Navigate your cursor to "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." and select "Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" from it submenu. If you have other needs, you can browse the whole list to get the video formats you want.
Step 3. Compress DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p for smooth editing
After you have defined the output video fornat, then hit the Settings button, in the next window, you are able to adjust video parameters, including video audio codec, bit rate, resolution, frame rate, channels...
To compress DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p, you just need to change video resolution from 3840*2160 to 1920*1080. If you still feel frustrated about video large size, you can lower the video bit rate to get smaller video file size.
Step 4. Start DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p conversion
To start DJI Mavic Air 4k to 1080p conversion, just hit the red Convert button on the UI, when the conversion stops, click Open to locate the folder with generated file. Now you are free to input the 4k footage to iMovie for further editing.
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