4K in Adobe Premiere Pro-Converting 4K footage to MPEG-2 for using in Premiere Pro

Summary: Here's a quick tutorial I did showing how to enable 4K video edited in Adobe Premiere Premiere with a smooth workflow.



4K footage looks amazing but it is a real nightmare for those whole are new to 4K editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. You may hear or even get one latest 4K cameras like the Blackmagic 4K, the Lumix GH4, Sony FDR AX100, Sony F55… meanwhile your computer freezes when editing those 4K videos. So you may be wondering, how in the world am I supposed to edit 4K in Adobe Premiere Pro? Now read on to get some tips and tricks from the following paragraphs.

From the info I’ve collected, it seems that Premiere Pro CS 6, CC 7 can (usually) handle 4K files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. Thankfully you probably don't have to buy a new computer... but you do need to convert 4K video to Premiere Pro using MPEG-2 (1080p) as primary delivery format. The following paragraphs show us how to edit 4K footage with Premiere Pro without bogging down your computer.

Note: If you own an old version of Premiere Pro, you’d better upgrade it to the new version. Well, if you don’t want an upgrade, but just convert 4K to a Premiere Pro video, it is still workable, but you can’t keep the original 4K resolution video.

To finish the 4K video conversion task, I recommend Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, working as the best Mac 4K Video Converter. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K H.264(MP4), XAVC, XAVC S, etc footage to MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro. What’s more, it supports converting 4K files to various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and more. If you work 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows PC, please get Brorsoft Video Converter to solve the issues.

How to convert and import 4K clips into Adobe Premiere Pro

1. Add raw files

Run the 4K video converter for Premiere Pro. Click Add files button to import videos to the app. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the 4K video files to the converter.



2. Choose output format

Click “Format” bar and choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas –> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format for editing raw 4K in Adobe with natively supported video codec.



Tip- Advanced V/A settings

Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. Note: If you want to get original 4K resolution, just keep the video size as original.



3. Transcode 4K video on Mac

Hit the convert button of the best 4K Video to Premiere Pro Converter. It will start converting 4K for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro immediately.

Once the conversion finishes, click “Open” button to get the generated .mpg files for natively editing in Premiere Pro CC 7/CS 6 as well as CS5/CS4/CS3 without any issues.

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