How to Work with Shadowplay Footage in Premiere Pro

"Every time I try to put a Shadowplay recording into Premiere Pro CC, it comes up with this error message - 'None of the files dropped on PP could be opened. Any answers appreciated, contact me or ask in your reply for any more info :)"

Shadowplay, just like Fraps, is also an extraordinary gaming capture tool. While compared with Fraps, its recorded file size is less weighty but the output video quality is no less than the former. On the other hand, there's a fact that Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't handle Shadowplay captured footage well at all and that's why many people like the above one often encounter "Premiere Pro won't open Shadowplay footage" issues.

When speaking of the failing reason, many experts and analysts boils it down to variable framerates. Since one of the ways NVIDIA manages to keep ShadowPlay's export file sizes low but retain great quality is to utilize variable framerates, but a professional tool like Premiere Pro never expects anything but constant framerates. The result is a freshly-exported video with de-synced audio and video - in effect, a useless result.

In this circumstance, given that you really want to play and edit Shadowplay footage on Premiere Pro smoothly, the quick workaround is to change Shadowplay file to MPEG-2, which ensures the maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Premiere Pro. Along with the help of Brorsoft Video Converter, you can effortlessly encode any shadowplay files to Adobe Premiere Pro preferred video format. Apart from Premiere Pro, it also offer supports for other advanced NLEs like Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas Pro, etc. Now don't hesitate to download the best program and follow the step-by-step guide below to convert ShadowPlay videos to Adobe Premiere Pro smoothly.

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How to Import ShadowPlay files into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, CS6, CS5

Step 1: Load source ShadowPlay footages

Launch the Video Converter on your PC, and you can either click "Add" button to import ShadowPlay files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.

Step 2: Select output format

To import ShadowPlay files to Adobe Ppro, you can follow Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas column and select MPEG-2 (*.mpg) as output format.

Tip: You are adviced to adjust parameters like bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel .etc in "Settings" before conversion.

Step 3: Start ShadowPlay to Adobe Premiere Pro Conversion

Finally, press the convert button; it will start to transcode ShadowPlay footage to MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, CS6, CS5 immediately.