Transcode 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 to DNxHD for Avid MC

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Summary: To open and edit 4K footage(MXF/MOV/MP4) in Avid Media Composer smoothly, you'd better transcode 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 to Avid more "edit" friendly codec like DNxHD and downscaling 4K to 1080p is much easier for editing.

You may expect the 4K support in Avid, since it seems like everything is shooting 4K these days. Although Media Composer has already had 4K support via Avid Media Access (AMA), there's actually no way to edit a 4K project natively with Avid even the latest Media Composer 8. In most cases, editing 4K in Avid Media Composer is very taxing on your computer. To import 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 into Avid Media Composer flawlessly, an ultimate solution we found would be to transcode/compress 4K to DNxHD for Avid Media Composer.

As mentioned above, Avid Media Composer lacks native support for 4K video. What’s more, there are so many 4K source in different video formats- MOV, MP4, MXF like from Panasonic GH4, GoPro Hero4, Sony FDR-AX1, Sony PXW-X70 and more. However, format compatibility issue is quite common in the video world, which is also true to the stunning 4K. If you're planning to edit 4K in Avid Media Composer, just read on to find something you need.

To prepare 4K footage for Avid, the easy option is to convert 4K MP4/MOV/MXF to Avid Media Composer supported DNxHD in 1080p settings. Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is a professional tool that can deal with 4K videos regardless in .MP4, .MXF, .MOV format to DNxHD for Avid Media Composer editing without quality loss. It also enables you to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K, 4K as you need. Besides Avid, this 4K video converter can also encode/re-encode 4K files for smoothly importing and editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express and more non-linear editing systems (NLE). For Windows users, you can turn to Video Converter.

Now just download the program and follow the below guide to convert 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 for playing and editing in Avid Media Composer perfectly.

Step 1: Load 4K videos

Run the best 4K Video Converter Mac and load 4K MP4, MOV, MXF clips to it by clicking “Add” button. You can also drag and drop the 4K files to the software directly from your Hard drive.



Step 2: Choose Avid compatible format

To encode 4K files to Avid Media Composer, choose Avid Media Composer -> Avid DNxHD (*.mov) as the target format.



Tip: You can click "Settings" to fix the frame rate, bitrate, video size, etc to your needs, that you can play and edit 4K movies in Avid easily. Generally, 1080p video size is good for Avid MC editing.

Step 3: Convert 4K to Avid Media Composer

Click the convert button under the preview window, this 4K to Avid converter will start encoding 4K video for Avid Media Composer.

After the conversion, click the “Open” button to locate converted files, and then you can load the converted 4K MXF/MP4/MOV files into Avid Media Composer 5/6/7/8 for editing smoothly with the best quality.

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iPad Air Video Converter: Convert Video to iPad Air 2 on Mac

Summary: Are you all Apple fans? Are you all fond of enjoying movies on iPad tablets? In order to make al various videos play well on iPad Air 2, we are here talking on how to add the MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, FLV, or WMV movies to iPad Air 2 supported formats for playback. In this way, a strong functional iPad Air 2 Video Converter is offered for you guys.

"I have collected rich movies on my computer's HDD with various formats like MKV, AVI, VOB, etc. what I want is to copy movies onto iPad Air 2 and then play at anytime, anywhere. I found the iPad Air 2 can't support all my video files, so I need iPad Air 2 video converter to convert the movies. Any good suggestions?"

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Why we need to do some extra video transcodings for playing on iPad Air 2?

iPad Air 2 is the latest tablet from Apple, it is one of the most popular tablets on the market, it has equipped with better hardware and software compared to its previous version. But recently a few of iPad Air 2 users have encountered problems when they play videos on iPad Air 2, for example, they can't play MKV on iPad Air 2 directly, many video formats are not supported by iPad Air 2. From Apple iPad Air 2 product page you will find that iPad Air 2 can only play H.264/MPEG-4 codec MP4, MOV and M4V formats, the other video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, VOB, MTS, etc.

Solutions to play MKV, AVI, VOB, FLV, Tivo files on iPad Air 2

This task can be easily accomplished with a qualified iPad Air 2 video converter. For mac users, among the top of multifunctional and reliable video converters, here Pavtube Video Converter for Mac / Windows stands out. You will thumb up for its wide support of video input and output formats. This Mac Video to iPad Air 2 converter is able to convert any videos like MKV, AVI, Xvid, FLV, VOB, WMV, etc to iPad Air 2 and transfer these videos to make them playable on any platform.

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Detailed conversion steps on importing MKV/AVI/VOB/FLV to iPad Air 2:

1.Free download video converter for iPad Air 2, you can download Windows version or Mac version according to your computer. Then with the 'Add videos' or 'Add from folder' buttons, we can add the original files in.



2. Click "Format" bar and choose best format for iPad Air 2. MP4 format is the typical one of the best supported formats of iPad Air 2, so we recommend you to choose MP4 format. "HD Video -> H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" can be the nice one.



3. Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrates than resolution which means bitrates higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.



Finally, as soon as you have chosen the right output format for iPad Air 2 and adjust the video/audio parameters as you want, just go back to the main interface and hit the "Convert" button we can wait for the output result. Next, transfer the videos from Mac to iTunes and then sync files from iTunes to iPad Air 2 as you like, it's time to enjoy ourselves!

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