With its Nikon developed 20.8MP FX-format CMOS sensor, the D5 is the highest resolution full-frame Nikon flagship ever and ready for your next challenge. It record 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) video with dot-by-dot readout for maximum image quality. Capture 3840 x 2160 at 30/25/24p with an angle of view approx.
“Hi, there, I have a Nikon D5 camera which creates 4k recordings in MOV format. I’m having issues working with 4K files from Nikon D5 in Avid Media Composer. I guess my old PC is not powerful enough to handle 4K files. Is there workaround to go through this? Any help would be appreciated.”
4K video is a key selling point on Nikon D5, it can shoot high-resolution 4K UHD video in .MOV format. But there are a few issues when it comes to playing, importing and editing Nikon D5 4K MOV in Avid MC.
Compatibility of Avid Media Composer and Nikon D5
Though Avid Media Composer generally supports MOV importing, it still can't work with Nikon D5 4K/1080p MOV natively, even upgrading to the latest version.
Worse still, although Media Composer has already had 4K and "high-resolution" (i.e., higher-than-4K) support via Avid Media Access (AMA) in previous versions and 4K Full Screen Playback are supported within Media Composer, there's actually no way to edit a 4K project natively with Avid. Actually, editing 4K raw in Avid Media Composer is very taxing on your computer.
Downscale Nikon D5 4K/ 4K format
As we had know that importing and editing Nikon D5 4K videos is a painful experience, even though the latest version of Avid Media Compose. The best solution is to downscale the Nikon D5 4K videos to 1080p/720p, so that they can be easily edited in the Avid Media Compose. Your 4K footage can be easily converted using a good video converter, Brorsoft Video Converter are high recommended here. >> read Top 4 4K Video Converter Review
Format to convert your 4K video
Avid Media Compose works best with the DNxHD codecs and thus for editing your Nikon D5 4K videos in Avid Media Compose, convert it to 1080p DNxHD .mov or 720p DNxHD .mov.
Beside DNxHD codecs for Avid Media Compose, there are many other preset formats in Brorsoft Video Converter that is supported by Final Cut Pro, iMovie/FCE, Premiere, Sony Vegas... You can select the one depending upon your requirements.
Other popular formats that your Nikon D5 4K videos can be converted to include: 4K H.265/HEVC or H.264 for your Smart TV, common MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, etc for your portable devices.
Moreover, you can merge all the video clips recorded by Nikon D5 into a one files by select the "Merge into one file".
The trail-before-purchase quick download icon provide here, you can also turn to Brorsoft page for downloading.
Keep in mind that you have download the right version, Windows platform .exe files cannot be installed on Mac OS - and vice versa.
Other Key Features:
- The feature-rich MOV converter for Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus camera
- Allows you to edit videos, like cropping, trimming, adding subtitle and watermark.
- Besides MOV, also available to transcode MP4, MKV, WMV, AVI, MPG, etc.
- Its simple design and easy-to-use, which requires less experience to control.
Guide: Re-encode Nikon D5 4K MOV for Avid Media Compose
Step 1: Load Nikon D5 MOV files
Copy 4K videos from Nikon D5 camera to PC/Mac hard drive. Downlaod, install and run Brorsoft Video Converter, click the "Add video" button to load Nikon D5 4K videos. Drag & Drop supported here, with the built-in player, you can preview videos and take screenshots.
Tip: If you want to merge Nikon D5 MOV clips, just need to check the "Merge into one file" box.
Step 2: Set output format for Avid Media Composer
Click "Format" bar to determine output format. Follow "Avid Media Composer" and choose "Avid DNxHD (*.mov)" as the output format.
Besides, it provides hundreds of output format presets for NLE system editing programs, such as Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, Apple InterMediate Codec for iMovie/FCE, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere.
Tip: You can adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in the Profile Settings. Besides, this video converter is also available to customize the output resolutions from 4K to any size like 1080p, 2K as users want.
Step 3: Start converting Nikon D5 mov to Avid MC compatible video
Click "Start conversion" button to transcode Nikon D5 MOV to Avid Media Composer. Once the conversion done, you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly. Now you have got mov converted into an acceptable file and you are able to import and edit Nikon D5 4K/1080p MOV files with Avid Media Composer 9/10/11/12/13 at ease.
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