Edit GoPro Hero 8/9/10 H.265 in DaVinci Resolve 17/16/15
The GoPro Hero 8 Black’s frameless design makes it super-simple to use and ultra-clean looking. the battery lasts around 50 minutes when continuously shooting in 2.7 or 4K at high frame rates, but you can stretch that out to more like 2 hours for lower resolution footage or TimeWarp videos. If you enjoy outdoor activities, GoPro Hero 8 will help you record more wonderful clips.
If anyone has had any experience editing GoPro Hero 8 4K MP4 files in DaVinci Resolve, I would be pleased to learn of their experience and the specs of the computer they are using. I am hopeful that editing 4K MP4 recordings on the new Windows 10 will be possible without the large file sizes produced by transcoding. Thanks in advance for responding.
DaVinci Resolve is a good free tool to edit videos on Windows 10, however, for the new users, it is a big problem to loading 4K H.265 footage from GoPro Hero 8/9/10 into DaVinci Resolve 17, 16 or 15, they will get some trouble for the video clips, or rather the 4K, 5K and 5.3K H.265 MP4 clips, are not supported by DaVinci Resolve, such files will not be shown when importing.
Thus the post editing work would be troublesome, but I don’t think it will be a problem that matters a lot. Actually, if you are just worrying about how to edit GoPro Hero H.265 files in DaVinci Resolve, don’t be panic now! Here, I will tell you in details on importing GoPro Hero 8/9/10 H.265 footage to DaVinci Resolve to edit smoothly.
As DaVinci Resolve 17/16/15 are not workable with GoPro Hero H.265 videos natively, if you want to load GoPro Hero 8, 9, 10 4K/5K/5.3K to DaVinci Resolve, first you need to convert GoPro H.265 to DaVinci Resolve friendly codec like DNxHD MOV or ProRes MOV. of course, losslessly. To do so, you need a professional 4K Video Converter to help.
Here I’d like to recommend an excellent 4K Video Converter from Acrok, which is a great GoPro Hero Video Converter. It can convert GoPro Hero 8, GoPro Hero 9. GoPro Hrro 10 H.265 videos to DNxHD and ProRes codec which is intermediate format that features high performance and quality, being less processor-intensive to work with on Windows 10/11.
Download 4K video converter:
How to import and edit GoPro Hero 8/9/10 files in DaVinci Resolve?
Step 1: Launch the Acrok Video Converter Ultimate and click “Add file” button to import the GoPro Hero 8/9/10 files to the top H.265 to DaVinci Resolve Converter. Batch conversion is supported.
Step 2: Choose H.264 codec for DaVinci Resolve.
Click on the “Format” bar and get the dropdown menu, then move your pointer to choose “Editing Software > Avid DNxHD 1080P (*.mov)” or “Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as the output format.
Tip: If you want to set some parameters for the output profile, you could click the “Settings” button to set the output bitrate, encode, frame rate, resolution, sample rate, channels, etc. For getting 4K output video, you need to select “Orginal” in “Resolution” column.
Step 3: Tap Convert button to start transcoding GoPro Hero 8/9/10 H.265 videos to DNxHD or ProRes .mov for DaVinci Resolve 17, 16, 15. Once the conversion completes, you can click “Open” to find the .MOV videos which can be directly imported to DaVinci Resolve. Now you can edit 4K MP4 clips from GoPro Hero 8, 9, 10 in DaVinci Resolve smoothly and without any problem.
