Import Panasonic HC-X920 1080 60p/50p AVCHD to Premiere/Avid

Summary: Have some 1080/50p 60p AVCHD from Panasonic HC-X920 but encounter issues when importing to Premiere or Avid? In this article, we'll quickly walk you through the most effective way for working Panasonic HC-X920 footage with Premiere/Avid.



Ever have experienced Panasonic HC-X920, the top-of-the-line High Definition Camcorder? With it, you can record Full HD .mts clips at 1080/60p or 50p mode. While enjoying the stunning HD image quality, many folks complain that they have encountered kinds of issues when importing AVCHD 1080 60p/50p videos to some prevalent editors, including Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer and so on for further editing as below:

"I want to edit the 1080 60p recordings from Panasonic HC-920 in Avid MC 5. But I couldn’t successfully importing the videos to MC with AMA. Any idea?"

"I have recently bought a Panasonic HD camcorder HC-X920 and got some 1080/50p AVCHD files. When I try to import clips into My Premiere CC, I get a message; "this mpeg is not supported." is there anyone here know how can I work it out?"

As a matter of fact, 1080 60p/50p is a non-standard frame rate, which usually used for capturing smooth slow motions and unsupported by common editing software including Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, etc. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix the problems. Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. What you need is just a common video converter like Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which can be used as a professional and easy-to-use MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac(El Capitan included).

The program can help you transcode Panasonic HC-X920 1080 60p/50p AVCHD footage to various professional encoders, Apple Intermediate Codec, MPEG-2, ProRes and DNxHD, DVCPRO, HDV - ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, FCP and more. Plus, with advanced audio and video in sync technology, the program is able to guarantee audio and video matching very well. If you are a Windows user, please turn to the Windows version. Now just get the program and follow the step-by-step guide below to convert and import Panasonic HC-X920 1080 60p/50p AVCHD footage to Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6, Avid Media Composer for editing smoothly.

Guide: Convert Panasonic HC-X920 AVCHD to Premiere/Avid

Step 1. Load the Panasonic HC-X920 AVCHD footage

Connect your Panasonic X920 HD camcorder to your Mac with USB2.0. Install, and launch Brorsoft MTS Converter on your Mac, and then click the adding button to import your AVCHD (.mts) clips.

Tip: You can select the "Merge into one" function to combine your multiple AVCHD files together.



Step 2. Select output format

By running Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, there is no need to set the codec yourself, the program has optimized presets for Avid and Adobe Premiere.

Converting to Adobe Premiere Pro

To work you Panasonic HC-X920 AVCHD footage in Premiere CC/CS6/CS5, simply choose "MPEG-2" as the output format from "Editing" software.



Converting to Avid Media Composer

To edit the C500 footage in Avid smoothly, choose "DNxHD" for the output.



Tips: The default settings of the recommended presets work well and ensure a smooth editing. Of course, if you want to customize video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings. You can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Step 3. Start transcoding

Finally, click the "Convert" button to start the conversion process. After a while, your files will be converted into a more editing-friendly format ready to be imported into Premiere or Avid.

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