The DJI Phantom 3 camera can shoot up to 4K videos with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format and capture 12 megapixel photos that look crisper and cleaner than ever. A live HD view lets you truly experience flight and see everything from your camera in real time. After recording, many people may also wanna do some operations on their 4K recoreded footages in NLEs like Final Cut Pro. While the problem is, according to my testing, the 4K video was restricted to editing in FCP X, which can’t handle 4K videos well.
Frankly speaking, expect for Final Cut Pro, most popular editing softwares including iMovie, Avid Media composer, Premiere Pro and more all can't support 4K video natively due to the codec incompatibility. In addition, the 4K video footage compressed with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 will still have big file size, it will take a lot of time for Final Cut Pro to render those 4K videos. So we have to say we need some other third-party tools to resize the 4K files to 1080p on Mac there. If you actually wanna edit the DJI Phantom 3 4K footages in Final Cut Pro, the recommended suggestion is to transcode DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K video to Final Cut Pro best editing codec - Apple Prores 422 codec (1080p would be the best settings.), a post-production format designed for pristine quality and high-performance Final Cut Pro real-time editing.
To achieve the goal, a professional 4K Video Converter is what you need. Featured with the most advanced converting technology, Brorsoft 4K Video Converter for Mac is the optimal choice for you. It provides hundreds of output format presets for 4K videos, such as Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro as well as DNxHD for Avid, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere, Apple InterMediate Codec for iMovie, etc. Besides, this 4K converter is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K, 4K as users want. Download the tool and start the 4K video conversion.
Convert DJI Phantom 3 4K to FCP for editing
Step 1. Add video files to the software
Run the program you just set up. Drag and drop the 4K files to the Converter. You can also hit Add files button to import videos to the app. If you want to join the imported clips into one for easy editing, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.
Step 2. Choose output format
Click "Format" bar and choose Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format for editing raw 4K in Adobe with natively supported video codec.
Step 3. Video/Audio settigs
If you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels, please turn to "Settings" page. Usually 1080p is the optimal setting for using in Final Cut Pro. You can downscale DJI Phantom 3 4K to 1080p.
Step 4. Start conversion
Hit the convert button; it will start converting DJI Phantom 3 4K for importing to Final Cut Pro. Soon after the conversion, just click "Open" button to get the generated files for editing in FCP perfectly.
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