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How to edit DJI Osmo footage on iPhone (Pocket, Action, Air)

From import to export: how to edit DJI Osmo Pocket, Action, and Air footage entirely on your iPhone. Covers log-to-Rec.709 conversion, clipping, captions, and export.

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You brought a DJI Osmo — Pocket, Action, or Air — on a trip and came back with hours of footage. The natural next step is to edit it down into shareable clips and post them. The traditional answer is "import to your laptop and use DaVinci Resolve." That works, but it requires you to be at a desk with the footage in front of you.

A full Pocket/Action/Air edit — log-to-Rec.709 conversion, trimming, captions, and export — is now possible on your iPhone, with the footage never leaving the device. Here is the end-to-end workflow.

What you need

The end-to-end workflow

Step 1: Transfer footage to your iPhone

The fastest method depends on your Osmo model:

Step 2: Open ReelClip and import

Open ReelClip, tap Import, and pick the clip from Photos or Files. The file is copied into ReelClip's private sandbox. The original file stays in your library untouched.

Step 3: Pick the camera color profile

When ReelClip opens the file, it reads the metadata to detect the color profile. For DJI footage that means:

Auto-detection usually works, but DJI files occasionally lose their color profile tag during transfer. If that happens, ReelClip lets you confirm manually — important, because the wrong LUT will give a green or magenta cast.

Step 4: Apply the camera transform

ReelClip applies the correct camera-transform LUT for the chosen profile. This converts the flat log footage into a displayable Rec.709 color space. The conversion happens on-device via Core Image — your footage never leaves the phone.

See how to convert DJI D-Log to Rec.709 on iPhone for the detailed explanation of why the conversion LUT matters.

Step 5: Pick a cut mode and find your clips

With the color sorted, choose a cut mode based on what you have:

Step 6: Review every clip before exporting

Tap each planned clip and watch it start to finish. Trim the start (the first second is what viewers decide on) and the end. Reorder by tapping and dragging. Delete the ones that did not work. ReelClip never auto-exports.

Step 7: Export to Photos

When you are happy with the batch, tap Save clips. ReelClip exports each approved clip to your Photos library, with a confirmation notification. The original DJI file stays untouched.

Step 8: Post or share

The clips are now in Photos as standard Rec.709 files. Upload them to Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or share via AirDrop. The footage never touched a cloud server between the camera and the post.

What about captions and LUTs?

Both are available in ReelClip once the clip is imported: