Edit Blackmagic Design URSA Camera 4K files on Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 smoothly

Summary: Want to import and edit Blackmagic Design URSA 4K footage in Premiere Pro without problems? Read on and check out the best solution below!

Blackmagic Design URSA Camera, the world's first high end digital film camera designed to revolutionize workflow on set. This camera conatins a massive 10 inch fold out on set monitor, a new user upgradeable 4.6K Super 35 image sensor with a massive 15 stops of dynamic range, 12G-SDI for handling the ergonomics of large film crews as well as single person use. It gives you two recording modes: Apple ProRes 422 HQ and losslessly compressed CinemaDNG RAW.

However, something turns to be frustrated when you importing Blackmagic Ursa 4K footage into Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 for further editing. On one hand, ProRes in a MOV file format from Blackmagic URSA is beyond the compatibility of Adobe Premiere Pro. What’s more, handling 4K video in Adobe Premiere Pro (CS4/CS5/CS6/CC) is extremely hardware intensive. To solve those problems, you're advised to compress and convert Blackmagic 4K files to MPEG-2, which ensures the maximum efficiency and quality when working with Premiere Pro.

Here I'll take Brorsoft 4K Video Converter for Mac as example to walk you through the conversion of 4K to MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro. Applying it, you are able to convert Blackmagic 4K files to Adobe Premiere more compatible format MPEG-2 without quality loss. Plus, this 4K video app can also encode any 4K videos including XAVC/XAVC S, 4K MP4, 4K MOV, etc to FCP, iMovie, Avid Media Composer, etc.

Step 1. Download, install and run the BlackMagic 4K Converter Mac and click "Add Videos" icon to load your source videos from Blackmagic URSA.



Step 2. Choose ProRes as output format

2. Click on the “Format” bar and choose a best editable format. For editing Blackmagic 4K in Adobe Premiere, choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas --> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output

format.



Step 3. Adjust video, audio settings

3. Set proper video/ audio parameters. Click the “Settings” button and set proper video/ audio parameters. You can reset set the video size, bitrate and fame rate. You can keep original 4K resolution or adjust video size to 2K or 1080 full HD as you need.



Step 4. Start conversion

After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the 4K video to MPEG-2 conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing 4K video in Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 with light speed.

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Editing GoPro Hero4 4K video in Premiere Pro smoothly

Summary: This article aims for showing a quick and easy workaround to import and edit GoPro Hereo4 4K videos in Premiere Pro with smooth workflow.

GoPro HERO4, the most advanced GoPros yet, takes Emmy Award-winning GoPro performance to a whole new level. The camera's processor is twice as powerful as its predecessor's, allowing you to record at up to 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. It can also capture 1080p at 120fps, which can make for some very smooth video when shooting fast-moving scenes, as well as cool slow-motion clips. Beyond doubts, GoPro Hereo4 Black would be doomed to the best choice for videographers who are found in outdoor activities.

After recording some stunning 4K footage via GoPro Herp4, you might want to edit them before sharing with your family and friends, while things would be a little more complicated when you work with the GoPro 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro (CC included): Some problems such as not showing the video but audio only, unsupported file type when playing and editing GoPro Hero4 video in Adobe, especially in 4K.

According to our multiple testing, we found two basic reason behind here. As we all know, GoPro Here4 records video in .mp4, which seems Adobe Premiere Pro(including the recent Premier Pro CS6) does not like the way. In addition, it's not an easy job to handle with 4K files well for Premiere Pro. To solve all described problems, the easy and quick workaround is to transcode GoPro Hero4 (4K) MP4 files to Premiere Pro editing-friendly formats (MPG/WMV/MOV in 1080p are highly recommended) as primary delivery format.

To complete this task perfectly, here I strongly recommend you adopt Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. By running it, there's no need to set the codec by yourself: the Mac program has a optimized preset (MPEG-2) for Adobe Premiere Pro (Premiere Pro CC included). Besides Premiere, this program can also export DNxHD for Avid, Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, Apple Intermediate Codec for iMovie and more NLE systems for editing. If you are Windows users, Video Converter is the alternative choice. Simply download the program and follow the step-by-step guide to ingest GoPro HD footage to Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6 for smoothly playback and editing.

Download GoPro Camera Video Converter:

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

How to transcode GoPro MP4 files for Adobe Premiere Pro

Step 1: Load Gopro Camera video files

Install and launch Brorsoft Video Converter on your Mac and load source MP4 clips to it. You can import MP4 clips to the program through "Add Video" button or "Add from folder" button.



Step 2: Choose Premiere Pro preferred format

Click "Format" pull down list to select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as the best video format for Premiere Pro. WMV, MOV formats are the good choice as well.



Tip - Profile Settings: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3: Start converting GoPro MP4 to Premiere friendly video format

Click "Convert" button to start transcoding Gopro HD MP4 video to MPG/MOV/WMV for importing to Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6. When the conversion task is finished, click "Open" button to get the exported files.

Step 4: Import converted MP4 files into Premiere Pro

You're now ready to get the result files into Adobe Premiere Pro to do further editing. Launch Premiere Pro on your Mac, choose "File > Import to import any file. If you prefer to use keyboard shortcuts, press Command+I to open the standard Import dialog.

How to Import MTS to Final Cut Pro for further editing

Summary: This article mainly shows you how to convert MTS to ProRes MOV, so that you can edit MTS files in Final Cut Pro with a smooth workflow.

MTS is commonly found in avchd video clips recorded from camcorders of Panasonic, Sony, JVC, and Canon. Right click the AVCHD file, you can find footage are divided into several .mts or m2ts clips for preserving. These MTS/ M2TS files are natively supported by Final Cut Pro. But usually, you may come across various problems when you import M2TS/MTS to Final Cut Pro for editing. Why it happened?

In fact, Final Cut Pro X and FCP 7 makes it easy to work with the latest AVCHD file-based devices, but only several kinds of camcorders like Sony XDCAM HD are involved in the list. So when you are experiencing difficulties with ingesting AVCHD .mts or .m2ts files into Final Cut Pro, you may obtain an unlisted cam. Besides, the highly-compressed AVCHD content is not so friendly for editing software. Then, how to get Final Cut Pro working perfectly with AVCHD MTS footage? A best way is to convert MTS files to ProRes .mov, something ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with FCP.

In order to finish this task, you're highly advised to adopt the the easy-to-use yet professional app called Brorosft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac which can be used as a AVCHD MTS to FCP Converter under Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8, etc. It is free, clean and safe to install and use. With it, you can effortlessly transcode MTS to Apple ProRes 422, ProRes 422 HD, ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 4444 for FCP, MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro, DNxHD .mov for Avid MC, etc., and it works well and converts flawlessly. Below is how.

Free Download the AVCHD Converter Mac:

( Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Step 1: Install and run the Mac MTS to FCP Converter, you can click "Add Video" button (or "Add from folder") to load AVCHD MTS source files.



Step 2: Click on "Format" bar and set a FCP friendly format in dropdown-list. You are advised to "Follow Final Cut Pro" template and "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" format.



Step 3: Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/audio parameters if necessary. Video size, bitrate and fame rate are flexible and can be adjusted as you like. Usually 1920*1080 video size and 30fps video frame rate are recommended for FCP editing.



Step 4: Click "Convert" to start converting the MTS/M2TS to Apple ProRes 422 codec. After conversion just click the "Open" button to locate converted video files for FCP post-production seamlessly.

Step 5: Launch Final Cut Pro 7/FCP 6, choose File >> Import >> Files..., and browse to where you save the converted AVCHD clips to. Choose the videos that you'd like to add.