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Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV Editing Tips in Premiere Pro

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Announced at CES 2016, the Nikon D5 and Nikon D500 are humble when it comes to pixels, with only 20.8 and 20.9 million respectively, but both offer a myriad of powerful new imaging innovations, suggesting that pixels are not the most important. And the Nikon D5/D500 is the first Nikon DSLR capable of capturing 4K UHD video with dot-by-dot readout for maximum image quality. However, you're likely to encounter some irritating issues when importing and editing Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV footage in Premiere Pro.

"Hello, recently I bought the Nikon D5 DSLR and have used it recorded some 4K videos and 1080p MOV videos, the image quality is very excellent. Today I need to import Nikon D5 4K files and 1080p files to Premiere Pro CC and edit the footages with Adobe Pro, but after I loaded the videos, I find the Premiere Pro CC can't edit Nikon D5 files smoothly, what's the reason? Are Nikon D5 videos not well supported by Premiere? Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks!"

Searching high and low, we have found some clues and would like to share some tips with you to assist you get Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV recordings work with Premiere Pro beautifully. In fact, granted that Premiere Pro CS6/CS5 usually has the ability to handle 4K files well, but it is extremely hardware intensive especially for working on a old computer. And in addition, the H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding on Nikon D5/D500 seems to unsupported by Premiere Pro natively. So on this occasion, if you stick to editing Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV footage in Premiere Pro, you'd better rewrap and convert Nikon D5/D500 footage to Premiere Pro's preferable video format such as MPEG-2 initially.

Read More: Nikon D5/D500 workflow with iMovie

To finish the task perfectly, I highly recommend you adopt Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, a top Mac Nikon 4K H.264 MOV Converter. It supports transcoding all Nikon 4K and 1080p MOV files to MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple ProRes 422 for Final Cut Pro X, FCP 6, FCP 7; DNxHD for Avid Media Composer; AIC .mov for iMovie, Final Cut Express and more. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time. If you work Nikon MOV footage on Windows, please get Video Converter. Now go through the article to check out the solution.

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Converting Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV videos for Editing in Premiere Pro

Step 1: Load Nikon D5/D500 4K MOV footage to the software

Install and launch Nikon Video Converter for Mac, and then click "Add" button to browse to Nikon MOV footage either from cam HDD or SD card or drag the footage from your camera to the program.

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Step 2: Select output format

Choose output format. This video converter offers optimized format preset for Adobe Premiere. Just click "Format" menu firstly and then follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" to set MPG format.

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

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Step 3: Start converting Nikon MOV to MPEG-2

Finally hit the Convert button; it will convert Nikon D5/D500 .mov to MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac immediately.

When the conversion process shows in 100% with the top MOV to MPEG-2 Converter Mac, you can get the resulted videos from output folder easily for easier editing in Premier Pro CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC.

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