SJCAM action cameras like SJ4000, SJ5000, SJ5000+ are affordable high performance wearable cameras to record sporting and other activities. In fact, many of the GoPro accessories and attachments work with this camera. After recoding, many of us like to edit the videos before uploading to YouTube or posting them on Facebook. The point here, you will find it a painful experience to import SJCAM footage to Adobe Premiere Pro (Premiere Pro CC included) to edit the movies. Well, what's the smooth working process with SJCAM and Premiere Pro? Now, seek for the answer from the following paragraphs.

As you know, the SJCAM action cameras record .MOV files(the container), and the files are compressed using the h.264 codec. So the files you are getting out of SJCAM action cameras are suited to be delivered as is, which is usually not what you want. This means that the SJCAM MOV is not an ideal editing format for using in Premiere Pro. Therefore, to make a smooth editing, you'll need to transcode the SJCAM MOV to a more editing-friendly format, such a Premiere's MPEG-2. For this purpose, this article outlines how to convert SJCAM action camera files for editing in Premiere Pro smoothly.

First of all, download the App - EaseFab Video Converter Mac

Overall, the program is an easy-to-use yet all-in-one video conversion app which can be used as a SJCAM camera video converer under Mac OS X (El Capitan included). It is free, clean and safe to install and use. With it, you can effortlessly transcode SJCAM MOV to MPEG-2, which will create an Adobe Premiere friendly file format keeping the SJCAM orginal quality. Besides Premiere, this software can also export DNxHD for Avid, MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas, Premiere Element, AVI for Pinnacle Studio, ProRes for FCP, AIC for iMovie/FCE and more NLE systems for native editing. For Windows users, Video Converter is the alternative choice. Just download the right version and follow the tutorial below to get the work done.

Converting SJCAM SJ4000/SJ5000/SJ5000+ MOV for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro smoothly

Step 1: Install and run the SJCAM video converter on your computer, and then drag and drop the source SJCAM mov footage to it. Batch conversion is supported, so you can load more than one file to save time.

Step 2: The program has three already optimized the video settings for Adobe Premiere. You can select MOV, WMV or MPEG-2 from "Editing Software" as the output format. Here we recommend you choose MPEG-2. The output videos will keep the original quality of the DJCAM MOV video and seamlessly fit Adobe Premiere CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, etc.

Step 3: Set Advance Settings (Optional) - The default setting works well. Of course, if you want to customize video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings. You can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Step 4: When everything is OK, simply click "Convert" and your SJCAM HD MOV files will be converted into MPG files ready to imported into Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4.