Thursday, August 28, 2014

How to Edit 4K from Panasonic GH4 in Premiere Pro CC

Can't import Panasonic GH4 4K footage to Adobe Premiere Pro CC for editing? Fortunately, there is an easy workaround to fix the issue. Check it out here!



Numerically the successor to the GH3, The new Panasonic GH4 comes-in at a higher level to satisfy video professionals who want to film in 4K using a relatively affordable interchangeable lens camera. It's the first prosumer model to offer Cinema 4K (C4K, 4,096x2,160) in addition to Quad HD 4K (QHD, 3,840x2,160), and notably it supports potentially extra-high-quality HD, meaning 4:2:2 10-bit output with a 200Mbps bit rate at all the major frame rates. So, you can get 4K and 1080P footage easily. The point here, you will find it a painful experience to import and edit Panasonic GH4 4K footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. There're some frequently asked questions quoted as below.


Q1: Editing 4k from GH4 in Premier Pro CC?
How is working with 4K in Premiere? Any performance issues? I suspect that a significant portion of the time, the use of 4k is to allow me the option to reframe shots (i.e. punch in) and still deliver in HD. Any issues in Premiere?
Q2: GH4 Premiere editing?
I´ve been following the latest developments on the GH4 and I´m very curious about what kind of machine would one need to edit 4096 x 2160 (24p), 3840 x 2160 (24p) or even 1920 x 1080 (24p) at 200 Mbps on Adobe Premiere.

Granted, Premiere Pro CS6, CC 7 can handle (usually) 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 Panasonic GH4 4K video to Premiere Pro using MPEG-2 (1080p) as primary delivery format. The following paragraphs show us how to edit Panasonic GH4 4K footage with Premiere Pro without bogging down your computer. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done with the help of Brorsoft 4K Video Converter for Mac.

How to convert Panasonic GH4 4K footage for Editing in Premiere Pro CC

First of all, download and install the 4K video converter to your Mac. The program can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K H.264(MP4), XAVC, XAVC S, etc 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 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows PC, please get Brorsoft 4K Video Converter to solve the issues.

Step 1. load GH4 4K videos

Run the program you just set up. Drag and drop the 4K video files to the converter. You can also hit Add files button to import videos to the app. If you wanna combine several videos into one file, you can click the "Merge into one" box.



Step 2. Choose output format

Click "Format" bar and choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas -> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format for editing Panasonic GH4 4K in Adobe Premiere Pro with natively supported video codec.



Tips: 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.

Step 3. Start converting 4K footage to Premiere

Hit the convert button of the best 4K Video Converter. It will start converting 4K for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click "Open" button to get the generated files for natively editing Panasonic GH4 4K video in Premiere Pro CC7/CS6 as well as CS5/CS4/CS3 perfectly.

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