“Hi admin, Avid Media Composer won’t import my GoPro Hero 10 footage from the SxS card. What other way would you suggest to get the footage to work on my MacBook Pro in Avid Media Composer? Thanks for your help!”
The Hero 10 Black, which replaces the now discontinued Hero 9 Black, comes with new ‘Hypersmooth’ electronic image stabilisation, which GoPro founder Nick Woodman called “the best in-camera video stabilisation in any camera, ever”.
What do I do to import GoPro Hero 10 Black H.265 video clips into Avid Media Composer for further editing? For a fast and fluid workflow, you can transcode GoPro Hero 10 video to DNxHD codec first. Check out a quick guide on how to do this below. There are around five other new features, though, compared to the Hero 9 Black. The biggest one is what GoPro is calling ‘HyperSmooth’ stabilisation, which is a souped up version of the electronic image stabilisation we saw on its previous flagship and now works in its 5.3K/60fps mode.
H.265 encoded MP4 video is highly compressed, good for transporting, but poor for editing. By the way, in order to play H.265 MP4 videos on PC smoothly, your processor must be very powerful. In a word, if you want to make a short film from MP4 footage with Media Composer and prefer fluent playback, you’d better to do some work in advance. There is an easy way to fix this issue. If for whatever reason you are unable to load GoPro Hero 10 H.265 recordings into Media Composer for editing, you can transcode them to a format that is compatible with Media Composer first, such as Media Composer ‘s favorite editing codec – DNxHD, which Media Composer will recognize and handle well. Let’s take a look at how to do this.
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate is a nice application for you. The program converts H.265 footage to editable formats (*.mov, *.avi, *.mpg, *.f4v, *.mov, *.mp4, *.wmv, etc) and obtain HD quality (1920*1080, 1440*1080, 1280*720). Converted file can be easily imported to Avid Media Composer for editing. Besides Avid software, this Mac H.265 to DNxHD Converter also generates best editing format/codec for filmmakers and video enthusiasts to use in different NLE apps, such as Vegas Pro 18, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, iMovie, DaVinci Resolve 17, Final Cut Pro X and more. It has an equivalent Windows version Acrok Video Converter Ultimate that brings you fast H.265 conversion on Windows (Windows 11 included). Just get the right version according to your computer’s operating system and follow the step-by-step guide below to achieve your goal smoothly.
Free download GoPro Hero 10 to Avid Media Composer Converter
How to encode GoPro Herp 10 H.265 files to DNxHD .mov for Media Composer editing?
1. Click “Add File” to load GoPro Hero 10 4K video files into this H.265 Video Converter. You can play the loaded videos via right window. Besides converting common media files, this H.265 to DNxHD converter can also convert Blu-ray and DVD to any format for any using.
2. Select output format for iMovie
GoPro Hero 10 to Media Composer Converter is able to output proper formats for video editing software and devices. To import 4K H.265 to Media Composer, please follow Editing software tab then select Avid DNxHD 1080P (*.mov) as output format. Alternative formats are WMV, AVI, MOV, DV, etc. If you’d like to combine multiple GoPro Hero 10 files to be a single file, you can click “Settings” button then tick the checkbox “Merge all files into one”.
Tips:
If necessary, you can click “Settings” button to modify video and audio parameters like encoder, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, aspect ratio, sample rate, and audio channels. You can also “enable 3D Settings” to add 3D effect to your source media.
3. Start converting videos
Click “Convert” to start GoPro Hero 10 H.265 video to DNxHD conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, click “Open” to get the generated DNxHD .mov files for editing in Avid Media Composer with optimum performance. Hope it helps.
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