DJI Mavic 3. There’s the 20MP wide-angle camera with 4/3″ CMOS from legendary camera maker Hasselblad and a 12MP telephoto with 1/2″ CMOS, 4K video, and 28x hybrid zoom. The video quality of the wide-angle Hasselblad on the Mavic 3 offers up to 5.1K resolution and DCI 4K at 120 fps. In addition to H.265 encoding, you can all shoot in standard H.265 profiles, but there is no HDR video on this drone.
Can we load DJI Mavic 3 H.265 footage into After Effects for smoothly editing directly? As it is known, H.265 codecs are on the list of native video formats for import supported by After Effects, many users are still getting error messages when they try to add the DJI Mavic 3 H.265 video into After Effects (the latest Adobe After Effects included). However, sometimes, you found it’s a painful experience add your DJI Mavic 3 files (.mp4, .mov) to After Effects for editing. And you may encounter problems like these:
“I got a tons of footage from DJI Mavic 3 which is shoot in 4K in h.265 codec. It took so long to import to After Effects CC.”
“The DJI Mavic 3 .mov files have the H.265 codec, but when I’m trying to import them to After Effects CC I get this error message: “Invalid file name”. If I try to drag them directly into the bin, nothing happens.”
Many folks are facing the H.265 importing issues with After Effects. As far as I know, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10). If your DJI Mavic 3 H.265 files are not accepted by After Effects, it’s probably because of the video or audio codec incompatibility. On this occasion, you need to transcode H.265 to the After Effects editing-friendly formats and then transfer the converted video files to your After Effects for editing.
The article would show you how to change DJI Mavic 3 H.265 footage to After Effects native editing format step by step with a professional H.265 Video Converter from UFUSoft, buy running it, there’s no need to set the codec yourself: the program has optimized presets for After Effects. You can convert any video file to After Effects format without loosing quality. For Mac uer, please get H.265 Video Covnerter for Mac.
Guide: How to convert and import DJI Mavic 3 H.265 files to After Effects
Note: The guide uses Mac screenshots as example. The way to transcode DJI Mavic 3 H.265 videos to After Effects on Windows (Windows 11/10/8.1) is almost the same.
Step 1. Add DJI Mavic 3 H.265 files to the program
You can directly drag and drop the the DJI Mavic 3 H.265 video files to DJI to Effects Converter, or click “Add File” button to load your .mov or . mp4 files. Batch conversion is supported, you can import more than one file at one time to ease your conversion and save time.
Step 2. Select MPEG-2 MPG as output format
You can directly choose the “MPEG-2 Video(*.mpg)” preset from “Adobe Premeiere/Sony Vegas” category for After Effects which has been supplied by the H.265 to Effects Converter. The settings also works for After Effects.
Step 3. Start the H.265 to MPG conversion
As soon as all the above settings are completed, you can press “Convert” button to convert DJI Mavic 3 H.265 files to MPEG-2 MPG for After Effects editing on Mac.
After conversion is done, simply click “Open Folder” button to find generated MPEG-2 .mpg files. Afterwards, you can transfer the converted DJI Mavic 3 video files into Adobe After Effects CC for editing smoothly on macOS(Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, etc) with ease.
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