Can Avid Media Composer ingest 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 files?

To import source 4k videos to the Avid Media Composer , you need to convert the 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 footages to Avid DNxHD codec MOV format, which means you need some professional 4K MXF/MOV/MP4 to Avid Media Composer converter to help you realize the video importing process.Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is your best choic, keep reading...

"4K" has become the hottest word in the digital photography and video field in recent years. Lots of 4K products such as 4K camcorders(Blackmagic 4K, Panasonic GH4, Sony FDR AX1/AX100...), 4K TVs, 4K movies are springing up. However, format compatibility issue is quite common in the video world, which is also true to the stunning 4K.

You will be wondering what to expect in terms of 4K support in Avid, since it seems like everything is shooting 4K these days. 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 now the 4K to Avid Media Composer workflow has been even improved in Media Composer 8. Whereas, there's actually no way to edit a 4K project natively with Avid.



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

First and foremost, download and launch the 4K Video Converter on your Mac. Then, press the "Add" button to add 4K video file into the program. Batch conversion is supported, so you can add several files to the converter at one time.



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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