Adobe Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro makes it easy to import and edit movies, images and music for creating your next video or audio masterpie. However, it will be a frustrating this if you have problems of import videos files from Canon EOS R8 MP4 footage to them. These are the common problems encountered by many the editing software users. Well, this is because the H.265 MP4 file from EOS R8 is incompatible with Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro. To edit Canon EOS R8 H.265 MP4 video in Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro, the easy workaround is to convert Canon EOS R8 MP4 to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro compatible formats like MPG, WMV or MOV.
Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. What's need is a just a common video converter like Acrok Video Converter Ultimate (Windows Version | Mac Version). It supports creating high quality MPG, WMV and MOV video for your Premiere Pro (CC, CS6, CS5) or Vegas Pro 20/19/18, no matter what's the format of your source video files. It can convert almost any video to tbe best editing format so you can import your video to your editing program for editing. The guide below will teach you how to convert and import Canon EOS R8 MP4 to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro so you can make engaging movies with your EOS R8 films.
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How to convert Canon EOS R8 MP4 files for Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro
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Add MP4 footage
First download and install H.265 Video Converter. When complete, start Acrok Video Converter Ultimate from Start menu or Windows desktop. Then click the Add Video button to load Canon EOS R8 MP4 videos. You can directly drag your files to the software Window.
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Choose output format
Click on the "Editing Software" and you will see options to convert your Canon EOS R8 recordings for certain video editing software. Since you will be importing the video to Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro after the conversion, have "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)", "MOV AVC Video (*.mov)" or "WMV (vc-1) (*.wmv)" be your selected output format to get videos that are highly compatible with Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro.
Settings
You can adjust the parameters by clicking "settings" button, choose the resolution, bitrate, frame rate as you want. Click "Resolution" colume then select "Orginal", you'll get orginal video resolution. Merge files is also supported.
Edit
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is not only a video converter program, but also a simple and easy video editor. To activate the "Edit" menu, you have to select an item first. When a video file is selected, you can click the "Edit" icon on the tool bar of Canon Video Converter main interface to edit selected file. On the "Video Editor" Window, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip video, trim, add 3D effect, reset, and adjust volume.
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Convert Canon EOS R8 video
When everything is ready, click the Convert button and all the imported Canon EOS R8 MP4 video files will be converted to MPG, MOV or WMV format which is ready to be used in Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro.
When the conversion complete, open your editing software and click Import or Import Video on the left to import your video to the movie collection and drag and drop to the timeline for editing.