The Blackmagic Design Production Camera 4K features a Super 35mm sized image sensor with a global shutter and a Canon EF lens mount. It can capture footage in Apple ProRes 422 HQ or losslessly compressed CinemaDNG Raw - promising 12-stops of dynamic range. It claimed that the recorded files from the Pocket Camera are compatible with most editing softwares which includes Aodbe Premiere. However, problems usually occur when importing the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K videos to Premiere Pro - computer freezes, unsupported file format, etc. So what's the available workflow to edit Blackmagic Production Camera 4K footage in Premeire Pro CC/CS6 smoothly?

PS: As far as we know, the latest version Premiere Pro CS6, CC 7 usually can handle 4K files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. On the other hand, it is a complete nightmare to import Blackmagic 4K ProRes or CinemaDNG Raw files to Premiere Pro - it can neither read ProRes nor CinemaDNG Raw files.

To work with Blackmagic Production Camera 4K videos in Premiere Pro smoothly, the easy workaround is transcode the Blackmagic 4K video to Premiere editing-friendly codecs and MPEG-2 is highly recommended. To do this, you can adopt EaseFab Video Converter for Mac for help. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode Blackmagic 4K ProRes 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're using a PC, please turn to the Windows version here. Here is how to do it.

Guide of converting Blackmagic Production Camera 4K video to Adobe Premiere

Step 1. Load source 4K videos

Launch the 4K to Premiere converter, and then click "Add Video" and load your Blackmagic 4K video files. This program supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple files into it at a time.

Step 2. Select the output format

Click "Profile" pull down list to select "Vegas/Premiere (MPEG-2)" as the best video format for Premiere Pro. WMV, MOV formats are the good choice as well.

Tip: 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. If you want to get original 4K resolution, just keep the video size as original.

Step 3: Start converting Blackmagic 4K footage

Click the "Convert" button to start the Blackmagic 4K ProRes to MPEG-2 conversion for Adobe Premeire Pro.

When the conversion is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the generated MPG files effortlessly. Launch Premiere Pro on your computer, choose "File > Import to import converted Blackmagic 4K files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC for further editing.