Best Way Work with H.265/HEVC in Pinnacle Studio

The H.265 codec has been around for a few years now but has only gradually been making its way into wide use. Some of the early implementations included FaceTime since the iPhone 6 and Windows 10.

If you're using Windows 10 or later or Mac OS X High Sierra, support for HEVC (H.265) is baked right into the operating system, making it available for video editing apps running on those platforms, such as Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro.

But there are still a lot of common devices and software that doesn't support it yet. If you're not able to open the HEVC files on your computer or device, you have a few options:

- upgrade your operating system (a potentially painful process that might have collateral consequences with other apps and hardware)
- open the files in an app that has its own built-in HEVC (H.265) support (limiting what you can do with it)
- convert the file to a different format that your computer and video editor can use.

Now in the following paragraphs, we will talk about the H.265/HEVC to Pinnacle Studio best workflow.

You can access many H.265 files like from DJI Phantom 4 Pro, DJI Inspire 2, GoPro Hero6... However, it's a headache to edit H.265 video in Pinnacle Studio. As far as we know Pinnacle Studio doesn't like HEVC files.

In order to import H.265 to Pinnacle Studio flawlessly, an easy solution here is to convert H.265 to a more editable format for Pinnacle. And here Brorsoft Video Converter is highly recommended to help you get the job done.

The program is the best H.265 file converter. With it, you can effortlessly transcode H.265 to MPEG-2, which will create a Pinnacle Studio friendly file format keeping the original quality. Besides Vegas, this software can also export DNxHD for Avid, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro, Premiere Element, WMV to Windows Movie Maker and more NLE systems for native editing. Just download it and follow the tutorial below to get the work done.

How to Convert HEVC for Editing in Pinnacle Studio Smoothly

Step 1: Add H.265 video files

Install and launch the best H.265 converter and load source H.265clips to it. You can batch convert multiple video clips as you want.

Step 2: Choose output format

Click "Format" pull down list to select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as the best video format for Pinnacle Studio.

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 H.265 conversion

Click "Convert" button to start encoding HEVC to MPG for Pinnacle Studio.

After the conversion, click "Open" to locate the result videos and then launch Pinnacle Studio to import the converted HEVC video. You will find that it's just a piece of cake to edit H.265 files in Pinnacle.