This year, Blackmagic Design has released a series of camera including URSA Mini which is world’s lightest handheld Super 35 digital film camera. URSA featuring an incredible 4.6K Super 35 image sensor with global shutter and a massive 15 stops of dynamic range and captures up to 4608 x 2592 pixels, that’s bigger than full DCI 4K! In additional, as we know, videos from Blackmagic Design camera usually in Apple ProRes codec, however, we often encounter some problems when you import Blackmagic Design recordings in Premiere Pro CC for editing.
Why we can’t load Blackmagic Design Apple ProRes video into Premiere Pro CC?
Q1：Hey all, I received many Apple ProRes videos from the client, and she want me to help edit Blackmagic Design Apple ProRes video in Premiere Pro CC, but in fact I don’t familiar with these files which in Apple ProRes from Blackmagic URSA Mini, so when I import them into Premiere Pro CC for editing, I found I can’t open the 4K ProRes files at all. And the Premiere Pro CC doesn’t work. Searching from Google, Apple ProRes format files are not supported by Premiere Pro. How to solve this problem?
Q2：I always thought Premiere pro support Apple ProRes videos，my friend told me I can’t edit ProRes 422 HQ – 110 MB/s videos in Premiere pro, even so, I didn’t really have an issue with this until I tried to work in CC. I found it is true, I get this error: “codec missing or unavailable”.
Faced with above situation, you must be feeling headache and want to know is there a best solution for you to solve the problem. First we need to know and find out the best editable codec for Premiere Pro CC, from the Premiere Pro CC website, clearly know Premiere Pro most supported H.264 codec, so you’d better to convert your Apple ProRes files from Blackmagic Design camera to H.264 for best editing in Premiere Pro CC with a Blackmagic Design Video Converter. So here, Acrok HD Video Converter is your best choice for you. Let the power Apple ProRes Video Converter help you, which enables you to encode ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 422 HQ, and ProRes 422 Proxy to Premiere Pro compatible format without any quality loss. Besides, this top Blackmagic Design Video Converter is a comprehensive video conversion application that allows you to convert a wide variety of formats to almost any output format. The software easy to use, even the advanced features are not hard to figure out. Below is specific step to learn more about the easy-to-use Blackmagic Design 4K Video Converter.
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Guide: How to convert Apple ProRes video to H.264 codec for Premiere Pro?
Step 1: Load ProRes footage to the program
Install and run the Apple ProRes to Premiere Pro Converter and click “Add files” button to upload files you want to add.
Step 2: Select best preferred format for Premiere Pro
Click “Format” pull down list to choose Editing Software > Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas AVC MOV (*.mov) as the output file format.
Step 3: Start ProRes to H.264 conversion
When you have finished above steps, just tap “Convert” button at the bottom right corner to finish transcoding 4K Apple ProRes video to H.264 for Premiere Pro CC, CS6, CS5, CS4, etc.
After the conversion, click “Open” to find out the converted videos and you will find that it’s just a piece of cake to edit Blackmagic Design URSA, Cinema Camera, URSA Mini, Pocket Cinema Camera, and Micro Cinema Camera Apple ProRes recordings in Premiere Pro without any problem.
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