How to Fix VirtualDub Not Edit MP4 Files?

For VirtualDub users, sometimes, you may have some MP4 files that you wish to load into VirtualDub, but just receive an "file not supported" error message just as the condition listed below：

"Hi, How to open .MP4 files in virtualdub? it says file is not supported or something.. i hope there's a plugin that allows me to open .mp4 files. The reason i want to open it in virtualdub is so that i can run a sharpen filter for the mp4 video. this is so tahti can watch on my PSP. I figured that I can convert the mp4 to avi then sharpen, but it would lose alot of quality that way. Thanks."

Why VirtualDub not open MP4 files?

As a free and open-source video capture and video processing utility, VirtualDub is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of this program is that it was made to operate exclusively on AVI files, it also means you can only load AVI container format video into VirtualDub. The good news is that you can still load MP4 to VirtualDub with the 2 solutions offered in the following article.

Solution 1: Download plugins of VirtualDub for MP4 formats
Solution 2: Convert MP4 to VirtualDub compatible file format

Solution 1: Download plugins of VirtualDub for MP4 formats

You can use the following plugins to open MP4 files that VirtualDub not handle originally.
1. VirtualDub FFMpeg Input Plugin
Handles 31 different formats, including MP4, MKV, MOV, FLV, WMV and other popular formats.
2. VirtualDub FccHandler Mirror
Handles MPEG-2, MKV, FLV, WMV, FLI, FLC and AC-3 ACM codec
3. Haali Media Splitter
Handles MP4, MKV, MTS, M2TS.
4. ffdshow-tryouts
Handles MP4, MKV, MTS, M2TS.

Solution 2: Convert MP4 to VirtualDub supported editing formats

Since VirtualDub only supported AVI files, therefore, you can easily fix this format incompatible issue by converting MP4 to VirtualDub workable file formats. Here, you can get the job easily done by downloading Pavtube Video Converter, which has full support for all 4K/2K/HD/SD MP4 files encoded with various different compression codec such as H.264, H.265, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1/WMV, MPEG-4 (A)SP, etc. The program supports batch conversion mode, so that you can load multiple MP4 file at one time for conversion. You can easily convert MP4 to VirtualDub editable AVI files with various different compression codec such as Divx, Xvid, DV or H.264, etc.

To get better output video and audio quality, you can flexibly adjust output profile parameters such as video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like.

For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to complete the conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, etc.

Step by Step to Convert MP4 to VirtualDub Editable File Formats

Step 1: Load MP4 files into the program.

Install and launch the MP4 video converter program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to load unsupported MP4 files into the program.

Step 2: Choose output file format.

Click "Format", from its drop-down option, choose VirtualDub supported AVI format such as "Divx AVI - Audio Video Interleaved (Divx)(*.avi)" or "Xvid AVI - Audio Video Interleaved (Xvid)(*.avi)" under "Common Video" main category.

Tips: You can flexibly adjust the output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels according to your own needs.

Step 3: Edit MP4 video (optional).

Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim video length, crop video black bars, add watermark, apply sepcial rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.

Step 4: Begin MP4 to VirtualDub conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the conversion from MP4 to VirtualDub conversion process.

When the conversion is completed, you can click "Open Output Folder" button to get the output files effortlessly, and now you will have no problems to import and edit MP4 files with VirtualDub.

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Fix AVCHD No Audio Issue

AVCHD no audio problems

AVCHD no audio issues often occur when people try to play AVCHD files with media player on computer or loading into editing software:

"When I play the AVCHD files on my laptop only the video works but I can't hear no audio."

"Please help, I import AVCHD/mts from any files on my PC but there is no audio/sound, not even the audio 1 track has anything in it, the sound is simply not there?? I know FCPX needs my Sony files converting is this the case with CS6 now as cs5.5 works ok."

Why no audio when playing or editing AVCHD files?

The AVCHD Audio can be recorded in 5.1-channel surround sound with Dolby Digital (AC-3) compression or up to 7.1-channel surround sound (uncompressed). When there is no audio when playing AVCHD with media player software or video editing software, it's very likely that the 5.1 AC3 audio or 7.1 such as PCM or LPCM is not supported by your player or editing software.

Fix AVCHD no audio issue

To solve AVCHD no audio issues, the best solution is to perform a audio codec transcoding process. Here, you can get the job easily done with our best Mac AVCHD MTS/M2TS Converter - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. The program can assist you to batch convert multiple AVCHD files with unsupported audio codec such as AC3 or PCM/LPCM to some common audio codec like AAC, MP3 for viewing on computer with media player software or loading into editing software.

For Windows users, please go to download Pavtube Video Converter to solve AVCHD no sound problems on Windows 10/8.1/8/7.

Step by Step to Solve AVCHD No Audio Problems

Step 1: Load AVCHD files into the program.

Start the program on your Mac computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to load AVCHD video files with multiple audio tracks into the program.

Step 2: Specify output file format.

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down list, select your media player or editing software compatible digital file formats to output. Then click "Settings", in audio section, from "Codec" drop-down list, select your media player or video editing software compatible audio codec such as "AAC" or "MP3".

Step 3: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files.

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Compress Canon 5D Mark IV 4K to 1080p

The EOS 5D Mark IV captures incredible still and 4K video clips suitable for significant post-processing, retouching and cropping. When the shooting is complete, a lot of people find that it is not convenient to play the Canon 5D Mark IV 4K video on computer, smartphone, HD TV, etc or edit with professional NLE editing on slow computer. In addition, due to the large file size of 4K video, 4K video sharing on popular video sharing sites is still very time consuming. The good news is that all those head-scratching issues can be easily fixed by compressing Canon 5D Mark IV 4K to 1080p. The following article will show you how to make this job easily completed.

Best tool to downscale 4K to 1080p

Although there are many tools on the market can do the job for you. However, if you are looking for a powerful yet simple to use program to compress Canon 5D Mark IV to 1080p on Mac, you can's miss Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. The program has perfect importing support for the M-JPEG 4K video recorded with Canon 5D Mark IV and also other 4K format and codec like 4K Prores, 4K H.264, 4K H.265 or 4K AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/MKV/MXF/XAVC/XAVC S, etc. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple Canon 5D Mark IV 4K video into the program at one time to save your precious time.

Then let's talking about the core compression function. With the program, you can efficiently  compress Canon 5D Mark IV 4K M-JPEG to 1080p or 720p in various different HD file formats including H.264 HD MP4, H.264 HD MOV, H.265 HD MP4, MPEG-4 HD MP4, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-TS HD, MKV HD, WMV HD, Divx HD, AVI HD and BDAV HD for smoothly playing and viewing on computer, smartphones, tablets, HDTVs, etc. Besides that, you can also choose devices or applications preset HD profile formats with the optimal playback settings.

For Windows users, you can download Pavtube Video Converter to compress 5D Mark IV 4K to 1080p on Windows 10/8.1/8/7 with best output quality.

Split/Trim/Crop Canon 5D Mark IV

Don't want to suffer any quality loss when compressing Canon 5D Mark IV 4K video. Never mind, you can make that by using the program's built-in trimming function to cut off unwanted parts or segments, split large 4K video into small parts by file size, count or length or crop the 4K video to remove the unwanted black bars or areas from the 4K video.

How to Compress Canon 5D Mark IV 4K to 1080p on Mac?

Step 1: Load Canon 5D Mark IV 4K video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Canon 5D Mark IV 4K video into the program.

Step 2: Choose output file format.

To compress 5D Mark IV 4K to 1080p, it would be ideal for you to choose one of your desired HD file format under "HD Video" main category.

Tips: Click "Settings" on the main interface to open the "Profile Settings" window, to compress 4K to 1080p, make sure to change the output file resolution as "1920*1080" or "1080*720" from "Size(pix)" drop-down list. You can also do other tweaking according to your own needs.

Step 3: Trim/Split/Crop Canon 5D Mark IV video.

Trim video length

In the video editor window, choose the "Trim" tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Split large video

Click the split button on the file list to launch the Video Split window. Ticking "Enable" option, you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size.

Crop video area

The "Crop" facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image. In the video editor window, navigate to the "Crop" tab. Follow the below methods to crop selected video:
A: Crop video by dragging and dropping the crop frame. Simply move your mouse cursor to drag and adjust the green frame to desired position.
B: Crop video by setting values. There are "Simple Mode" and "Advanced Mode" under Crop feature.

Step 4: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the compression or downscaling process from Canon 5D Mark IV to 1080p or 720p resolution with your desired HD file formats.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can smoothly view, play the compressed files on Mac with video players, transfer to iPhone, iPad, stream to HD TV or load into Mac editin

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Import Mavic Pro 4K to Premiere Pro CC

As the best Drone of 2017, the DJI Mavic Pro is the perfect marriage of unparalleled flying ability, a high quality camera, and a low profile design. With this great drone, you can shoot both DCI 4K and UHD 4K in MOV wrapper with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression standard. When the shooting is done, you may wish to do some professional post editing work with the DJI Mavic Pro 4K video with Premiere Pro CC. The following article will show you how to achieve a high quality and high performance workflow of Mavic Pro 4K video with Premiere Pro CC.

Work Mavic Pro 4K with PPC on slow computer

Although Premiere Pro CC can handle 4K resolution video editing very well, in addition, the H.264 MOV formats shot with Mavic Pro is also included in Premiere Pro CC supported file formats. However, it is well known that 4K video editing is very processor intensive, if your computer doesn't meet the minimum standards to edit 4K video, you will inevitably suffer video stuttering or lagging issues when playback the 4K video on the timeline of Premiere Pro CC. To fix this issue, you can use the following 2 solutions:

Solution 1: Create Proxy Media with Premiere Pro CC
Solution 2: Compress DJI Mavic Pro 4K to 1080p

Solution 1: Create Proxy Media with Premiere Pro CC

You can create proxies directly from items in the project panel. Choose Create Proxis from the project panel context menu to open the Create Proxies dialog. The menu item is enabled when one or more items in the panel are selected that can be proxied. Premiere Pro can create proxies for master clip project items if they have video, have no captions, and are not growing files. The media must also be online.

In the Create Proxies dialog you can choose one of several built-in presets to use when transcoding high-resolution originals to create proxies. You can also add presets created in Adobe Media Encoder by clicking the Add Ingest Preset button. You can also choose to create proxies in a "Proxies" directory next to the original media, or in a custom location.

If you allow the progress dialog box to complete, a proxy job is created in Adobe Media Encoder for each of the project items chosen that can be proxied, and an offline proxy is attached to each project item. You can monitor the progress of these jobs in the Premiere Pro Progress panel, or in Adobe Media Encoder.

While the jobs are processed, you can continue to work with the corresponding high-resolution project items in Premiere Pro. When the proxy jobs complete, Premiere Pro automatically switches to displaying the proxy video in the Timeline if Enable Proxies is enabled in the Media preferences panel.

Solution 2: Compress DJI Mavic Pro 4K to 1080p

If you wish to export the 4K footage from Premiere Pro CC to 1080p for smooth playback on HD TV, smartphones, tablets, etc. Then it would be much ideal for you to choose the 2 solution: compress 4K to 1080p. Here, you can easily downscale DJI Mavic Pro 4K to 1080p by downloading Pavtube Video Converter, which can assist you to efficiently compress Mavic Pro 4K to 1080p or 720p in various file formats including H.264 HD MP4, H.264 HD MOV, H.265 HD, MPEG-4 HD MP4, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-TS HD, MKV HD, WMV HD, Divx HD, AVI HD, BDAV HD, etc. Here, you can choose any of Premiere Pro CC supported HD file formats as the final output file format according to your own preference.

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How to Compress DJI Mavic Pro 4K Video to 1080p for Smooth Post Editing Workflow?

Step 1: Load 4K video into the program.

Open the program, click "File" menu, from its drop-down option, select "Add Video/Audio" to load DJI Mavic Pro 4K Video to the program.

Step 2: Choose output file format.

To downscale DJI Mavic Pro 4K to 1080p, first chose to output DJI 4K H.264 to HD H.264 from the "Format" drop-down list below.

Then click "Settings" icon on the main interface to open the "Profile Settings" window, from "Size(pix)" drop-down options, select "1920*1080" or "1080*720" to compress 4K to 1080p.

Step 3: Start the conversion process.

After all settings are done, click right-bottom "Convert" button to begin to convert and compress DJI Mavic Pro 4K video to Premiere Pro compatible editing codec or resolution.

When the conversion is completed, you will have no problem to import video to Premiere Pro CC for smooth post video editing workflow.

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