
GoPro Hero 12 is perfect for recording Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and even long-format videos. It also supports HDR recording for improved colours and details. The image sensor can capture 27MP RAW still photos as well as 5.3K60, 4K120, and 2.7K240 video with ease.
As it is known, MP4 is a common "container format" for video files that allows you to store a lot of video and audio information in a smaller file size. If you plan to import and edit GoPro Hero 12 MP4 videos in Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro smoothly, you come to the right place.
Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro are film and video editing software application. It generally supports MP4 importing. However, sometimes, you found it’s a painful experience add your GoPro Hero 12 5.3K and 4K MP4 files to Premiere Pro (CC, CS6, CS5) and Vegas Pro for editing. And you may encounter problems like these:
"I got a tons of footage from GoPro Hero 12 which is shoot in 4K in h.265 codec. It took so long to import to Premiere Pro CC."
"The GoPro Hero 12 .mp4 files have the H.265 codec, but when I’m trying to import them to Vegas Pro I get this error message: "Invalid file name". If I try to drag them directly into the bin, nothing happens."
Many folks are facing the MP4 importing issues with Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro. If your GoPro Hero 12 videos are not accepted by your editing software, it’s probably because of the video codec incompatibility. On this occasion, you need to transcode H.265 to the Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro editing-friendly formats and then transfer the converted footage to your editing program for editing.
The article would show you how to change GoPro Hero 12 H.265 MP4 to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro native editing format (MPEG-2) step by step with a professional GoPro Hero Video Converter from Acrok, buy running it, there’s no need to set the codec yourself: the program has optimized presets for Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro and other hot editing software. You can convert any video file to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro compatible format without loosing quality. For Mac uer, please get GoPro Hero Video Converter for Mac.
Free download Video Converter for GoPro Hero 12.
Guide: How to convert and import GoPro Hero 12 MP4 files to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro
Note: The guide uses Windows screenshots as example. The way to transcode GoPro Hero 12 H.265 MP4 to MPEG-2 in Mac is almost the same.
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Add GoPro Hero 12 files to the program
You can irectly drag and drop 5.3K or 4K MP4 video to the converter, or click "Add file" icon to load your GoProHero 12 files. Batch conversion is supported, you can import more than one file at one time to ease your conversion and save time.

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Select output format as MPEG-2
You can directly choose the MPEG-2 preset from "Editing Software" category for Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro which has been supplied by the MP4 to Premiere Pro/Vegas Pro Converter. The settings also works for DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker and After Effects etc.

Various video editing functions are available in this app to assist you with creating personal videos with customized adjustments. And it takes only a few minutes for all novices to personalize your video quickly and easily with the built-in video editor including Trim, Crop, Add watermark, Add subtitles, Add effects, Adjust volume, etc.
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Start to convert H.265 to MPEG-2
As soon as all the above settings are completed, you can press "Convert" button to start conversion. After conversion is done, simply click "Open" button to find generated MPEg-2 videos. Afterwards, you can transfer the converted GoPro Hero 12 video files into Premiere Pro/ Vegas Pro for editing smoothly with ease.