Hello All--

I owned a Phantom before my Mavic.  I have been making little home movies with the drones and action cameras for a few years now.  I have always used Windows Moviemaker, the free movie editing software that comes with Windows, along with the GoPro video editing package.  It has been a good combination for my purposes.

Lately I have found a desire to step-up my video editing game a little bit.   I want to do things (like split screen) that are not possible in Moviemaker or the GoPro software.

In an attempt to do some more robust video editing I purchased VSDC editor (paid version, there is a free version, as well).  It was fairly affordable and had good reviews.  It also allows me to do some of the editing tricks I am interested in.  Unfortunately, I have found that VSDC editor has difficulty handling the Mavic footage.  Mavic footage that comes from the VSDC editor tends to be choppy, especially when I speed it up, something I have really taken to lately.  Speeding up the footage results in a really nice effect.  Ironically, the free Moviemaker does a much better job of handling the Mavic footage.

In looking around on the internet I see that this issue (choppy footage) is common and it seems that even some of the premium software packages (Adobe Premiere) also seem to have trouble handling some of the footage.  I have read up on and experimented with CODEC's, containers, rendering and computer performance issues along the way.  But the fact that Moviemaker (the free default program) seems to beautifully and effortlessly handle these files suggests to me that the bottom line issue is really about the editing software.

So, fellow Mavic users, what software do you use?  What software works best for you?  Please advise.

--Thank You, Roubaix

P.S. and F.Y.I, my computer has the following specs:
Windows 10
Processor: AMD A8-6500 APU with Radeon (tm) HD Graphic
3.5 GHz
RAM:  8.00 GB (7.19 usable)

System Type: 64-bit Operating System x64

Wondershare Filmora

Intel Motherboard w/ 2 x XEON quadcore CPUs
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
8gb RAM
SSD
Radeon RX460

I have been trialing Corel VideoStudio X10 and it seems to cope with 4k from Mavic very well.

I was using a PC with Premier, now im on a Mac with final cut pro X.

I use premiere pro cc

My home PC has very similar specs to yours. I started out using Davinci Resolve 12.5 (free) when I was shooting 1080p video but the 4K from the Mavic didn't work so well so I switched to PowerDirector 15 and have gotten great results.

Premiere Pro CC on an iMac.

I use Blackmagic Davinici Resolve 12.5

Premiere Pro CC (2017) Dual Quad Xeon, 48 GB memory, SSD system Drive, SSD content drive, SSD cache drive, Nvidia GTX 1070 - Windows 10.

4K video works fine.

Started with iMovie, before trialling FCPX. The one month trial period has just ended so I've entered into negotiations with myself about what would be a very expensive upgrade.

FCPX, MacBook Pro

Ditto...MacBook Pro with FCPX.

Long time Vegas Pro user here. They also offer a less expensive version, "Vegas Movie Studio".

Premiere Pro CC.  The choppy video is more related to computer specs than the software.  4K video takes a huge amount of system resources and many computers just can't handle it well.

Lesser specced PC's can't handle the data rates of UHD but most programs allow editing to be previewed at a lower resolution during the edit. Once edited your footage should look fine when exported back in the original resolution although rendering times will be substantially lengthened.

I use Adobe Premiere.

Sony Vegas Pro 14, and wondershare filmora  on a PC I got for free from the company I used to work for, they shut down so they gave me my computer.

Gopro studio (free) and wondershare Filmora.