How to Work Blackmagic 4K footage in Adobe Premiere CC Beautifully

To get Adobe Premiere CC (CS6/CS5) work with Blackmagic 4K (ProRes) footage, the easy workaround is to transcode the 4K video to a more editing-friendly format for Adobe Premiere. Here is a simple tutorial for you.

The Blackmagic Production Camera 4K is a complete self contained solution for shooting extremely high resolution Ultra HD 4K content. With a built in SSD recorder, it easily captures 4K in ProRes 422 (HQ) and compressed CinemaDNG files. As far as we know, the latest version Premiere Pro CS6, CC 7 usually can handle 4K files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. On the other hand, it is a complete nightmare to import Blackmagic 4K ProRes to Premiere Pro - it cannot recognize ProRes codec, and even worse than that is Adobe Premiere Pro(CC) will import a .MOV file of any codec -Animation/ProRes, whatever doesn't matter. There’re some frequently asked questions quoted like this:

"I am trying to open footage shot with Blackmagic 4K camera in premiere but all I get is a 1347 x something ... footage. I know Premiere CC will open it... But.. what about premiere CS6.. is tehre any trick or plugin to get it to open what is (or is supposed to be) standard 422 Pro res Quicktime File (sure.. at 3840x2160) ?"

To work Blackmagic 4K footage in Premiere CS6/CS5 or CC without any issue, the easy workaround is to convert the 4K video to a more editing-friendly format, such a Premiere's MPEG-2 codec. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done with the help of Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode Blackmagic 4K ProRes footage for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and more. If you work Blackmagic 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows, please get 4K UHD Video Converter. Below is the detailed guide on transcoding Blackmagic 4K files to Premiere Pro friendly video formats.

How to convert Blackmagic 4K footage to Adobe Premiere highly compatible files

Step 1: Install and launch the Mac 4K UHD Video Converter, and then click "Add Video" and load your 4K video files into it. It also supports joining several videos into a single file.



Step 2: Click the Format bar to select output format - Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg) for editing raw 4K in Adobe with natively supported video codec.



Tip: 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. If you want to get original 4K resolution, just keep the video size as original.

Step 2: Finally, click the "Convert" button to start the Blackmagic 4K ProRes to MPEG-2 conversion.

When the conversion is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the generated MPG files effortlessly. Launch Premiere Pro on your computer, choose "File > Import to import converted Blackmagic 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5/CS6/CC for further editing.

If you have issues importing, editing or playing 4K footage, please refer to 4K Workflow column to get all-round solutions and workflows.

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[Blackmagic Production Camera 4K footage in Premiere Pro]

However, problems usually occur when importing the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K videos to Premiere Pro - computer freezes, unsupported file format, etc. So what's the available workflow to edit Blackmagic Production Camera 4K footage in Premeire Pro CC/CS6 smoothly?