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Solution to importing GoPro MP4 video to iMovie 11
Topic Started: Jun 4 2014, 02:24 AM (33 Views)
jacknjchn
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Summary: If you have any issue when importing GoPro videos to iMovie (iMovie 11), just follow this simple guide, which offers you a quick fix for the problems with GoPro MP4 and iMovie.

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I usually edit my videos on my Mac with Apple’s iMovie app. This tutorial is about GoPro video and iMovie. All the reports I’d read suggested that GoPro videos needed converting from MPEG-4 to a format iMovie can handle. But the first time I tried importing directly, iMovie seemed to handle everything fine without converting. But then I ran into difficulties. I had to cancel the first import – and couldn’t get the Mac to resume. (It wouldn’t do anything without the camera being connected.) I had no better luck the second time. So today, I bit the bullet, and converted my latest GoPro videos before attempting to edit it in iMovie. It worked flawlessly.

You may also be confused: is it necessary to convert GoPro videos to iMovie? According to my own experience, my best tip for anyone else wanting to edit GoPro footage in iMovie is this: accept you need to convert the footage first. You’ll save yourself a lot of frustration.

The basic reason is that the GoPro video file off of the micro SD card has a H.264 codec, and has an MP4 file extension. The file type is a compressed output format, but not ideal for editing in NLE system. For the purpose to help all the GoPro(Surf Hero, Hero 960, HD Hero 2, HD Hero 3, Hero 3+) users to import GoPro MP4 files to iMovie smoothly, I will share a fast way to convert GoPro video to iMovie with Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac.

It supports converting all GoPro camera MP4 files to Apple InterMediate Codec MOV with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. With it, you can effortlessly import and edit your GoPro HD MP4 footage within iMovie '11, iMovie'9 and iMovie 08. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time and other issues. Just download it and follow the step-by-step guide to transcode GoPro MP4 files for editing in iMovie.

Convert/Import GoPro MP4 files to iMovie 11

Step 1: Add Gopro video files

Install and launch the best GoPro to iMovie Converter and load source MP4 clips to it. You can check the “Merge into one file” to join GoPro files together.

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Step 2: Choose output format

Hit the "Format" bar and select iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec(*.mov) as output format on the drop-down menu.

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Tip - Profile Settings:
In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click “Settings” button and enter “Profile Settings” panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3: Start GoPro to iMovie conversion

Click the arrow button to start converting GoPro MP4 to AIC MOV for iMovie.

Once the process completed, click "Open" button to find the generated videos, and then you can transfer the converted GoPro MP4 files to iMovie 11 easily and quickly.

Additional Tip:

Besides transcoding GoPro MP4 to iMovie, the best GoPro Video Converter Mac can also export DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro/Premiere Element, ProRes for Final Cut Pro and more NLE systems for native editing.

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Source:Edit GoPro HD MP4 files in iMovie 11
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lydia622520
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[size0]Quickly learn this article to convert 4k footage to Premiere Pro file on Mac so that you can import 4k clips to Premiere effortlessly.

[size0]Source From:Import and Edit 4K video with Adobe Premiere Pro

4K is the next size up from HD – twice the pixels horizontally and vertically: four times the detail. There are many, many flavors of 4K files, and more to come. RED camera for example can be setup to shoot uncompressed RAW 4K, 3X compression, 5X compression, 8X compression, and 10X compression.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software is the industry-leading cross-platform video editing software.Stabilize footage with the innovative Warp Stabilizer, easily create and edit multicam sequences, adjust effects in real time during playback, and quickly encode finished video for virtually any screen.
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From the info I’ve collected, it seems that Premiere Pro CS 6, CC 7 can (usually) handle 4K files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. Thankfully you probably don't have to buy a new computer... but you do need to convert 4K video to Premiere Pro using MPEG-2 (1080p) as primary delivery format. The following paragraphs show us how to edit 4K footage with Premiere Pro without bogging down your computer.

Note: If you own an old version of Premiere Pro, you’d better upgrade it to the new version. Well, if you don’t want an upgrade, but just convert 4K to a Premiere Pro video, it is still workable, but you can’t keep the original 4K resolution video.

To finish the 4K video conversion task, I recommend Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, working as the best Mac 4K Video Converter. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K H.264(MP4), XAVC, XAVC S, etc footage to MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro. What’s more, it supports converting 4K files to various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and more. If you work 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows PC, please get Brorsoft Video Converter to solve the issues.

Download the 4K Video Converter for Mac

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[GUIDE] How to convert and import 4K clips into Adobe Premiere Pro

1. Add raw files

Run the 4K video converter for Premiere Pro. Click Add files button to import videos to the app. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the 4K video files to the converter.

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2. Choose output format

Click “Format” bar and choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas –> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format for editing raw 4K in Adobe with natively supported video codec.

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Tip- Advanced V/A settings

Click “Settings” button 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. Note: If you want to get original 4K resolution, just keep the video size as original.

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3. Transcode 4K video on Mac

Hit the convert button of the best 4K Video to Premiere Pro Converter. It will start converting 4K for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro immediately.

Once the conversion finishes, click “Open” button to get the generated .mpg files for natively editing in Premiere Pro CC 7/CS 6 as well as CS5/CS4/CS3 without any issues.

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