How can I edit Red 4K DNxHD videos in Premeire Pro CC?

RED 4K camcorders are hot in recent years, because more and more users have the need to capture high quality 4K videos, have you recorded some full HD 1080p videos or 4K videos with RED camcorders? After you recorded videos with RED camcorders, you may want to edit recorded videos with popular editing programs like Adobe Premiere Pro CC. in order to help you edit RED 4K DNxHD video in Premiere Pro CC natively, we would like to share the RED 4K DNxHD video to Premiere importing and editing workflow, you will be able to edit RED 4K DNxHD video in Premiere Pro CC with native supported codec and format.

How to edit RED 4K DNxHD video in Premiere Pro CC?

In recent years RED has released some professional camcorders, such as dsmc2 brain, scarlet-w red dragon 5k brain, red raven camera, etc. they are able to capture videos in 4K or higher resolution. As professional camcorders, they have advanced sensors for outstanding image quality. With RED camcorders, you can also record 4K DNxHD videos. This article is mainly to solve the RED camcorder 4K DNxHD video to Premiere Pro CC importing and editing problems. Because more users get RED camcorders, more problems are reported, there are many users have found their RED 4K DNxHD videos are not natively supported by Adobe Premiere Pro CC, they have the need to import 4K DNxHD video from RED camcorder to Premiere Pro CC for editing on Windows or Mac computer, but they always meet the importing or editing problem, just like it showed below.

“Is there an easy way to solve RED 4K DNxHD video to Premiere Pro CC importing and editing issue? Everytime when I load videos from RED camcorder to Premiere Pro CC, I always found the footages are not natively supported, my videos are all 4K DNxHD videos recorded by RED, can anyone share an easy workflow to import and edit RED 4K DNxHD video in Premiere Pro CC? Thank you for your help.”

If you have used Premiere Pro CC for some time, you will know that Premiere Pro CC supported video codecs and formats are limited, not all the videos are supported by Premiere Pro CC. The main reason of the failure is that the codec is limited. Currently 4K DNxHD codec is a special codec and it’s unsupported by Premiere Pro CC. These 4K DNxHD clips have to be converted into WMV or MOV format, which is the most compatible format for Premiere Pro CC. In this case, you will need to use 4K video converter software to convert 4k video on Windows 10 or Mac, once you converted videos to Premiere Pro CC supported format, you will be able to edit videos smoothly.

RED 4K DNxHD video to Premiere Workflow

To convert 4K DNxHD video from RED camcorder to Premiere Pro CC supported format, we recommend you to use Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Windows or Mac, this is the best 4K video converter and free 4K video editor software on the market. It supports converting all 4K DNxHD files to Premiere Pro CC supported WMV or MOV, so that you can easily import the 4K footages to Premiere Pro CC for editing on Windows or Mac. This method will help you import and edit the files natively, you will not have any problems. Besides, there are more output formats in this 4K video converter, such as AIC for iMovie, DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, WMV/MOV for Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple ProRes for FCP X, etc. are also supported.

Convert RED 4K DNxHD to Premiere Pro CC easy and fast

This guide takes the Windows (Including Windows 10) version screenshots for example. The way to rip Blu-ray to Adobe Premiere CC on Mac OS X (macOS 12 included) is the same. Just make sure you get the right version.

Download 4K Video Converter

Download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Windows or Mac. Just click the download link and get this program onto your computer, install this RED 4K DNxHD video to Premiere converter on your computer.

Load video files

Load RED 4K DNxHD files. Launch the RED video converter on Windows or Mac, and click the "Add Files" button to load the 4K DNxHD videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the RED 4K DNxHD files to the application.

Select Premiere Pro CC native editing format

Load RED 4K DNxHD files. Launch the 4K video converter on Windows or Mac, and click the "Add Files" button to load the 4K DNxHD videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the RED 4K DNxHD files to the application.

Tip

Video Editing feature is also available to use in this 4K video converter. If you want to edit your 4K footages before conversion, this program can be free 4K video editor for you, you can click “Edit” button on the main interface, and then trim 4K video, crop 4K video, add watermark to 4K video, add subtitle to 4K files, replace audio of 4K videos, etc. these features are very easy to use, you can get your videos edited in few minutes.

If you want to customize the output parameters, click the "Settings" button and customize proper video or audio parameters according to your need. Video resolution, bitrate and fame rate can be adjusted as you like. You can also enter the parameters you want.

You see, it’s just so easy to turn Blu-ray to Premiere Pro CC supported video formats in a few clicks! Just get the Blu-ray ripper and enjoy Blu-ray editing in Premiere Pro CC.

Start video convesion

Start the RED 4K DNxHD video to Premiere conversion. As soon as all settings are finished, click the "Convert" button under the preview window, and the 4K video converter will start converting RED 4K DNxHD to WMV or MOV for Premiere Pro CC.

When the conversion is finished, you can get the converted RED videos and then import them into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, now you can edit the footages smoothly. Just download Acrok 4K video converter and take a try, hope it can solve your problems.