HomeMavic Pro Platinum VS Mavic Pro
If you want a DJI Mavic Pro with extended flight time, get the Mavic Pro Platinum, which flies and hovers about 11 percent longer than the original Mavic Pro. Although Mavic Pro Platinum shoots the same quality 4K ultra-high-definition video as on the Mavic Pro. However, it gains performance in several areas in addition to flight time. Platinum is quieter at take off, landing and cruising, due largely to its new propellers. It also boasts more stability.
Import Mavic Pro Platinum 4K to iMovie
As what we have mentioned before, this new drone camera captures the same high quality DCI and UHD 4K MP4/MOV video compressed with MPEG-4/AVC codec as Mavic Pro. For Mac users who wish to turn your Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video into stunning movies or trailers with a free prosumer editing software, iMovie is absolutely your best choice. How about the workflow of DJI Mavic Pro Platinum 4K with iMovie. To answer this question, we should be clear of the following 2 issues:
- Can iMovie handle 4K resolution video?
- Work Mavic Pro Platinum H.264 MP4/MOV native with iMovie
Can iMovie handle 4K resolution video?
Apple has updated iMovie 10.1 for Mac with support for 4K editing. However, sometimes, you may fail to edit 4K video with iMovie for Mac if your Mac computer does not meet the minimum requirements to play and edit 4K video or the 4K video types are not supported by iMovie. It also means that if your Mac doesn't meet the minimum requirements to edit 4K video, it would be ideal for you to compress 4K to 1080p. From iMovie supported 4K camera lists, we can see that it has included native importing support for the 4K H.264 MP4/MOV video shot with DJI Mavic Pro. As DJI Mavic Pro platinum records the same 4K video as DJI Mavic Pro, therefore, we can also conclude that iMovie also supports for the importing of DJI Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video. Then let's move to the next important issue:
Work mavic Pro Platinum H.264 MP4/MOV native with iMovie
Although iMovie can directly import Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video, however, since the H.264 video used used by DJI Mavic Pro Platinum is mainly used as a delivery file format but not an good editing format. In addition, the highly compressed codec, H.264 is very processor-intensive, it will be very time consuming for iMovie to decode the H.264 codec. To get a high quality and high performance editing workflow, it would be much ideal for you to use a less processor-intensive editing codec - Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC).
Transcode and compress Mavic Pro Platinum 4K H.264 for iMovie editing
To achieve a high quality and high performance editing workflow of Mavic Pro Platinum 4K with iMovie, it would be much ideal for you to transcode and compress Mavic Pro Platinum 4K H.264 to iMovie. Here, you can easily complete the job by downloading Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. The program not only assists you to direct export Mavic Pro Platinum H.264 to iMovie most favorable Apple Intermediate Codec with best quality and fast encoding speed, but also helps to compress DJI Mavic Pro Platinum 4K to 1080p for smooth editing workflow on Mac computer that's not powerful enough to handle 4K resolution video.
Edit Mavic Pro Platinum 4K with iMovie
Apart from transcoding and compressing Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video for you, the program can also work as a perfect Mavic Pro Platinum 4K editor. You can trim or cut video to remove unwanted parts or segments, crop video to get off the black edges, add transparent text watermark to video, apply special rendering effect to video, deinterlace interlaced video or insert external SRT/ASS/SSA subtitle to video, etc.
Step by Step to Compress and Transcode Mavic Pro Platinum 4K for iMovie Editing
Step 1: Input DJI Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video.
Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import source DJI Mavic Pro Platinum 4K video into the program.
Step 2: Define the output format.
Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select iMovie most favorable "Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)(*.mov)" under "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..."
Step 3: Edit Mavic Pro Platinum Pro 4K video.
On the top tool bar on the main interface, click the pencil like icon to open "Video Editor" window, you can trim Blu-ray movies to remove the unwanted parts by setting the start and end time, crop to remove the black borders or unwanted area by dragging the dash line around the video frame, flip video, add text/image/video watermark, change video picture effect, replace/remove audio in video, add external subtitles, etc.
Step 4: Begin the conversion process.
After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from Mavic Pro Platinum 4K to iMovie most preferable Apple Intermediate Codec editing format.
When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can get a high quality and high performance workflow of Mavic Pro Platinum Pro 4K to iMovie on either slow or powerful Mac computer.
Free Trial Video Converter for Mac
