“Hello, I have just received my Sony a7R IV camera which I bought one week ago, after I got it I used it to take some photos and recorded a lot of videos, and now I need to edit some footages in Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac, I tried to load the Sony a7R IV files to Adobe Premiere Pro, but every time I always failed, the videos are in AVCHD/XAVC S format, and it seems not supported by Adobe Premiere Pro. Do I need to convert Sony a7R IV to Adobe Premiere Pro compatible format? How can I import Sony a7R IV to Adobe Premiere Pro? Please help me.”

Sony Alpha a7R IV continues the noteworthy series of highly capable full-frame cameras, characterized by impressive stills and video performance and versatility. This fourth edition of the a7R sees the inclusion of an updated 61MP Exmor R BSI CMOS sensor and enhanced BIONZ X image processor, which afford impressive imaging results with marked smoothness, a 15-stop dynamic range, and, of course, speed. Up to 10 fps shooting is possible along with the ability to record UHD 4K30 video, both with support for Real-time Eye AF and Tracking AF technologies. Full HD 1080p recording is also supported in frame rates up to 120 fps, and both resolutions utilize the 100 Mbps XAVC S format contained within an MP4 wrapper with 4:2:0 sampling.

After you got the Sony a7R IV camera, you may have used it recorded some videos, for most users, they have the need to import recordings into editing programs, do you also have the need to import Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro or other software for editing? On the forums, there are a lot of users have encountered the issues to import Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S files to Adobe Premiere Pro, just like the problem showed above, they can’t import Sony a7R IV files to Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac for editing smoothly, what’s the problem? It is because Sony a7R IV recorded AVCHD/XAVC S and XAVC S MP4 files are not supported by Adobe Premiere Pro, so you can’t import the videos to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing directly, in this case how can we import Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S files to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing natively? You will need to convert Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro MPEG-2 codec, which is native supported codec of Adobe Premiere Pro, and then you can import the converted videos to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing natively.

Convert Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro Losslessly

To convert Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S to MPEG-2 codec for Adobe Premiere Pro, you will need an avchd/xavc s video converter, here we recommend the best Sony a7R IV to Adobe Premiere Pro converter for you, the program is called U2USoft Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, with it you can easily convert AVCHD, MTS, M2TS and 4k videos to Adobe Premiere Pro native supported MPEG-2 codec, besides Adobe Premiere Pro, it also has optimized formats for Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5, iMovie, etc. now please follow the link below to download and use it.

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STEP 1. Download, install and run the AVCHD/XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro Converter; click “Add Videos” icon to load your source AVCHD/XAVC S videos from Sony a7R IV.

STEP 2. Click “Format” bar and choose “Adobe Premiere Pro > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format for editing AVCHD/XAVC S in Adobe Premiere Pro with natively supported video codec.

STEP 3. Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.

STEP 4. Hit the convert button, it will start converting Sony a7R IV AVCHD/XAVC S to MPEG-2 (*.mpg) for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for natively editing in Adobe Premiere Pro perfectly.