An easy solution to make your 4K MPEG-4, H.264 video from Nikon DL24-500 compatible with Premiere Pro CC and Premiere Pro CS6 with the maximum editing quality and efficiency.
The Nikon DL24-500 is an enthusiast bridge camera with a 20.8MP 1″-type sensor and long 24-500mm equiv. F2.8-5.6 zoom lens. This lens has a fluorine coating to repel water and oil and a Nano Crystal Coat to reduce flare and ghosting. Create movies that amaze in the high video quality of 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160/30p) that can be output uncompressed via HDMI.
Photography is certainly an art and so is the choice of a right camera! The DL24-500 f/2.8-5.6 delivers the reach and resolution of a professional super-telephoto lens in a compact package. You may get a lot of 4K videos shot by Nikon DL24-500. When editing these videos with Adobe editing software on Mac or Windows, you’ll often run into troubles like import error, poor color or quality. Actually, such highly compressed formats by no means the ideal formats for editing purpose. Instead, raw clips like MPEG-2 perform much better. Thus, it’s not optional but a must to decode your 4K footage to MPEG-2 format if you want to achieve the best results.
In order to keep the video quality as well as finish the Nikon DL24-500 Premiere Pro task as quickly as possible, a 4K Video Converter is in use. We at Acrok naturally recommends the Nikon Video Converter : HD Video Converter (Windows Version | Mac Version). With it, you also can easily transcode all popular formats like MKV, MTS, MXF, AVI, WMV, FLV etc. to Premiere Pro best editing format with a few clicks. Below is the step by step guide.
Free download Nikon 4K Video Converter
The Steps: Converting Nikon DL24-500 4K video for Premiere Pro
Load Nikon DL24-500 4K files
Install and launch Acrok HD Video Converter on your computer, and then click “Add File” button to browse to 4K H.264/MPEG-4 footage either from cam HDD or SD card or drag the footage from your Nikon DL24-500 camera to the software.
Select MPEG-2 format
To choose a format best suited for editing with Final Cut Pro, do as the follow: Format menu >Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov).
Tip: Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/ audio parameters if necessary. E.g. Set video size to 1920*1080 or set smaller bitrate to further cut down export file size. You may skip this step as well.
Start transcoding 4K videos
Click “Convert” to start converting Nikon DL24-500 4K videos to MPEG-2 codec for Premeire Pro CC and Premiere Pro CS6. The conversion process may take long time but it will not bother to render in Adobe Premiere Pro. After conversion just click the “Open” button to locate converted Nikon DL24-500 recordings for Premiere Pro post-production.