Import 4K H.265 files from Canon XF705 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5
Canon XF705 is one of the most powerful camcorders on the market, it is selected by many professional users. Canon XF705 has powerful video recording feature, or example it can capture 4K H.265 videos, in this article, you will get the best software which can help you to transcode Canon XF705 recorded 4K H.265 files to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 natively supported format, and then you can edit Canon XF705 4K H.265 files with Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 smoothly.
Not long ago Canon released a professional camcorder XF705. Compared with the previous XF series camcorders, where did the XF705 camcorder upgrade? In fact, it is more about coding and transmission. In the past models, whether it is the previous generation camcorder or other models, it is almost always based on H.264 coding and then packaged, such as canon’s XF-AVC coding. Now, on XF705, the coding is upgraded to XF-HEVC. seeing HEVC, it is easy to understand that it is based on H.265 coding. users can use XF705 camcorder to shoot 4K H.265 video. On the XF705 camcorder, H.265 coding is more efficient than H.264 coding, in other words, we can get better picture effect with smaller file size. This code is not widely used on other machines. XF705 uses this code to provide more support for future shooting.
How to edit Canon XF705 files with Premiere Pro natively?
“Hi there, one week ago I borrowed the Canon XF705 camcorder to record some high quality videos, I used it recorded a lot of 4K footages, some are in 4K H.265 codec. Today I need to import these recorded 4K H.265 clips into Premiere Pro on my computer, I find the Canon XF705 4K H.265 files can’t be imported or edited by Premiere Pro CC natively, the footages can’t be handled smoothly on the computer, is the 4K H.265 codec not good for editing? Can anyone give me some suggestions to handle the Canon XF705 4K H.265 files? Thank you!”
Canon XF705 has advanced video recording feature, it can capture 4K videos with different codecs. On Canon XF705 related editing forums, there are a lot of Canon users complained the issue to edit Canon XF705 4K H.265 files with Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5, what they found is that they can’t edit Canon XF705 files with Premiere Pro smoothly, the Premiere Pro takes much time to render Canon XF705 4K H.265 files, and the imported 4K videos can’t be edit smoothly, most users want to get a better way to import 4K H.265 files to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 and edit natively. But, how to edit Canon XF705 4K H.265 files with Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 natively? What’s the best workflow to edit H.265 in Premiere Pro?
The most effective way to handle Canon XF705 4K H.265 files with Premiere is to convert the 4K H.265 files from Canon XF705 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 natively supported format, from Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 product help page you will know supported formats for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5, and 4K H.265 is not native editing codec for Premiere, in this case, if you convert Canon XF705 4K H.265 videos to supported format, there will be no importing or editing issue anymore.
Canon XF705 4K H.265 Converter
An excellent 4K H.265 converter is needed to convert the files from Canon XF705. As we discussed above, you will need to transcode Canon XF705 video to supported format for your Premiere Pro on Mac or Windows computer. In order to convert Canon XF705 4K H.265 to supported format, you will need 4K H.265 converter, here we recommend the best Canon XF705 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 converter for you, it is Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac/Windows, this is the best Premiere Pro H.265 converter on the market which can transcode Canon XF705 4K H.265 files to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 supported format easily, besides, it has many native formats or codecs supported, such as DNxHD codec for Avid Media Composer, AIC codec for iMovie, Apple ProRes codec for FCP X, etc. you can use it to convert 4K UHD files to any formats you need.
Tip: This 4K Converter can work for high quality videos recorded by professional camcorders, such as Canon XF405, Canon XF400, Canon XF305, Canon XF300, Canon XF205, Canon XF200, etc. cameras and camcorders released by Sony, Panasonic, JVC, BlackMagic, etc. are all supported.
Transcode Canon XF705 4K H.265 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5.
Step 1. Download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac/Windows from the link on the page, once you get this H.265 to Premiere Pro converter from our website, install it on your computer. This software has Windows version and Mac version, if you need to convert Canon XF705 files on Windows or Mac, you can choose the corresponding version to use it.
Step 2. Run this Canon XF705 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 converter, and then click “Add Files” button on the top left corner to load the 4K H.265 clips that you want to convert.
Step 3. You will need to select native supported format for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5. Just click and choose “Editing Software -> Adobe Premiere Pro”, if you use Premiere on Windows computer, you can choose the Premiere WMV format, if you use Mac you can choose the Premiere MOV format.
Step 4. This is the last step. Click convert button to start the Canon XF705 to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 conversion.
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac will start the Canon XF705 Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 conversion immediately, you don’t need to worry about the converted video’s quality, video and audio synchronization is perfectly guaranteed, with Acrok software you will get top quality videos for editing with Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5. Just wait some time, when the 4K H.265 conversion process is done, you can click open folder button and get the converted Canon XF705 videos, and then you can import converted Canon XF705 files into Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 for editing with native supported format.
