For Mac users, when you’ve done video project creating with your DJI camera, you’ll want to do some great post-production editing before sharing the video footage with billions of online audience. To built a video that you’re proud to share, you will need a best Mac DJI video editing software. Below article has listed 5 best free Mac DJI video editing software for you to make a reference.

1. Apple iMovie

iMovie comes with every new Mac (OS X El Capitan and Yosemite) and you don’t need to pay extra money for it. The latest iMovie 11 is a great and free video editor for the Mac with many great features such as movie trailer, one step effect, audio editing, etc. And in just a few steps, you can share your DJI movies to YouTube or export videos for your iPhone, iPad, etc. However, iMovie is only free if you buy a new Mac. And when getting started with iMovie, you will find it hard to master this software. All in all, iMovie is one of the best free video editing software for Mac users and receives good reputation.

2. Blender

Blender is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It is considered as one of the best free DJI video editor for Mac. It can be used for modeling, rigging, texturing, UV unwrapping, skinning, animating, rendering, water and smoke simulations, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, animated film, video games, or other visual effects. Blender has lots of advanced features like powerful character animation tools, modifier-based modeling tools, a node-based material and compositing system, Python for embedded scripting and so on.

3. Avidemux

Avidemux is another great free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux and BSD under the GNU GPL license and supports a variety of video, image and audio formats, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, MOV, ASF, JPG, AAC, AC3, etc. High compatibility with many video formats is the highlight of this free video editing software for Mac.

4. ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor is a free video editor for Mac which provides media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types into one (or more) output file(s). Besides Mac, it is also available for Windows and Linux. ZS4 Video Editor comes with over 150 built-in video effects which can help you bring your videos to the next level instantly.

5. HyperEngine-AV

HyperEngine-AV is a free video editing software for Mac used to capture, edit, organize process, and export video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows. It comes with twelve studio-quality effects from Arboretum’s Hyperprism suite of audio processors. Besides, it offers text features to display credits, section titles, or karaoke lyrics with fully editable font, size, type, color, style, alignment, and scroll direction. Definitely, HyperEngin-AV is really a good free video editor for Mac users.

Problems when editing DJI video with free Mac video editing software

When editing DJI video with above listed free Mac video editing app, you are likely to encounter the following problems or issues:

1. Does not handle the 4K video captured by DJI camera

2. Does not compatible with the newest Mac OS X El Capitan

3. Easily crash when loading the DJI Phantom video due to wrong preference, codec problems, etc

4. Lack of sound when playing DJI video, this may cause due to the incompatible audio codec issue

5. Audio video out of sync due to an improper audio to video sync.

Best Mac video converting and alternative editing application for Mac

To fix all above listed problems, you can seek help from a Mac video converter application. After searching on the internet, we find one called Pavtube Mac Video Converter, which is highly recommended on many site reviews. The program has been upgraded with perfect support for the new Mac OS X El Capitan, which enables you to convert the SD/HD/4K video recorded with DJI Phantom 2/3 and DJI Inspire One to Mac free video editing application best compatible editing file formats or codec.

Besides that, the program also acts as a versatile video editing app for you to do some basic DJI video editing work on Mac. You can merge separate video clips into single one, split large video files into small one by file count, size or number, trim video length to remove unwanted parts, crop the black bars around the video, change video saturation or color effect, insert text/image/video watermark, add external ASS/SSA/SRT subtitles to video, remove audio in video or replace audio in video, etc.

Related article: How to Transfer DJI Video to PC/Mac Computer

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