Import AJA Cion 4K Video to iMovie/FCE for Editing on Mac

Import AJA Cion 4K Video to iMovie/FCE for Editing on Mac 

Summary: If you wanna a way to edit AJA Cion 4K video in iMovie/FCE smoothly, just follow this page. This article will shed you some light on how to convert 4K video to AIC MOV. 

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AJA's CION is a new ergonomic professional production camera, capable of shooting at 4K/UltraHD and 2K/HD resolutions. CION offers in-camera recording directly to the Apple ProRes family of codecs including ProRes 4444, and ProRes 422 up to 4K 60 fps, and offers the ability to output 4K AJA Raw data at up to 120 fps via 4x 3G-SDI outputs. When recording in HD or 2K, the image is oversampled from the full 4K sensor, retaining focal length as well as providing a vibrant and detailed image. 

4K footage looks amazing but if you don't have a fast computer with a high end RAM and speedy processor it can make video editing a real nightmare. Your computer may freeze or crash when editing AJA Cion 4K video in iMovie/FCE. iMovie is one of the best video editing tools for Mac. With it, you can beautify your videos simply by cutting, cropping, merging, adding effects etc. to them. It works stable on Mac computer, so it's loved by millions of users. On the official site, it says iMovie can support DV, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MOV and M4V file types. According to this, you are unable to import AJA Cion 4K ProRes to iMovie/FCE. 

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All in all, to smoothly import AJA Cion 4K ProRes to iMovie/FCE, you'd better to convert 4K video to iMovie/FCE totally compatible formats as we searched above. To get the job well done, we need to use an all-in-one program- Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac (review), applying which you are capable of converting AJA Cion 4K video to AIC MOV format, the compatible video format with iMovie/FCE, with lossless quality at faster speed so that you can edit 4K videos in iMovie/FCE without any problem. Besides, the program is developed with some useful editing features, including merging several clips into one for easy importing, downsizing the files for editing and storage, adding text/image/video to original files, adding subtitles, replacing original audio tracks, etc. 

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How to convert AJA Cion 4K video to AIC MOV for editing in iMovie/FCE? 

Step 1: Run the best 4K Video to Avhd Converter on your Mac, click "Add Video" button to load AJA Cion 4K video. You can load several files at once thanks to "Add from folder" button. 

Step 2: Click the "Format" bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get "iMovie and Final Cut Express>>Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)" as output format. 

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you'd better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need. 

Step 4: Click "Convert" button on the bottom of the screen to start AJA Cion 4K video to AIC MOV conversion process. The amount of time it takes will vary based on your system's hardware and the quality settings you selected. 

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Source: http://1080p-video-tool.blogspot.com/2015/07/convert-4k-video-to-dnxhd-mov.html