VideoPad Video Editor is a basic video editing program that has many of the tools and features. This non-linear software allows you to add unlimited editing tracks to your project, giving you the versatility you need to create complicated projects. You can import various video clips to VideoPad Video Editor to create your personal films. However, if your source video is H.265 video, VideoPad Video Editor might let you down cause it doesn't support HEVC video files to input.
H.265 is the new successor to H.264, which is one of the compression schemes used by Blu-ray. The idea of HEVC is to offer the same level of picture quality as AVC, but with better compression. But H.265 is not a friendly video codec to video editor such as VideoPad Video Editor. Actually, VideoPad Video Editor supports many video formats. To edit H.265/HEVC video with VideoPad Video Editor, what you only can do is to convert H.265 to VideoPad Video Editor supported format video with an H.265 encoder and decoder software.
VideoPad Video Editor Supported Input Formats
VideoPad supports just about any video input device including DV based or HDV camcorders.
Import Video - avi, mpeg, wmv, divX, Xvid, mp4, mov, vob, ogm, H.264, RM and more
Import Images - bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif and more
Import Audio - wav, mp3, m4a, mid, flac, aac, wma, au, aiff, ogg, raw, dvf, vox and more
Best H.265 Video Converter for VideoPad Video Editor
There are many video converters out there claiming that they can decode and encode H.265/HEVC video files. Among those HEVC converter, Pavtube Video Converter is one of the best software. This comprehensive application that was created to enable you to easily convert your H.265 MP4, H.265 MKV and other H.265 video to VideoPad Video Editor supported H.264, MOV, MP4, AVI, etc with perfect picture and sound quality. If your H.265 video is 4K resolution, it also can compress the H.265 4K video to H.264 1080p video for VideoPad.
Besides VideoPad, it also can convert H.265 video to WMM, Davinci Resolve, AviD, Sony Vegas and other other NLE software.What's more, you can adjust the video codec, size, frame rate, bit rate and ratio as well as the audio codec, bitrate, number of channels, sample size or volume. If you are using a Mac, you should use the equivalent Pavtube Video Converter for mac.
Convert H.265 Videos to VideoPad
Step 1: Load H.265 files into the program.
Run the program on your computer click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to add H.265 video files into the program. "Drag-and-Drop" and batch converison is supported here.
Step 2: Choose MP4 Format
Click "Format" box and move mouse cursor to "Common Video" or "HD Video" category, simply select H.264 MP4 as the output format, which is supported by VideoPad. You also can choose another video format only if VideoPad supports it. Click "Settings" on the main interface to start to adjust video and audio parameters to fit in your needs.
Step 3: Edit video(optional).
Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim video length, crop video black bars, add watermark, apply sepcial rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.
Step 4: Start H.265 video to VideoPad conversion
After all the settings, clicking the Convert button on main interface, you can go to Conversion window to start H.265 video to VideoPad conversion.
Once the conversion is finished, you can click "Open Output Folder" button to get the output MP4 files effortlessly, and now you will have no problems to import and edit your files with VideoPad Video Editor.