Trouble Importing Canon MOV files in Adobe Premiere Pro

Trouble Importing Canon MOV files in Adobe Premiere Pro

This guide will tell you how to transcode Canon EOS H.264 MOV to Premiere Pro for editing without any codec problem.

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Canon EOS DSLR Cameras are more and more popular and valuable with improved viewfinder, a number of new in-camera creative options and filters, plus HDMI output for viewing images on an HDTV. But for some fairly new Canon users, video editing and encoding is something they are doing for a longer time. As the above quesitons, you can see many folks will have no idea of what the limitations of the "MOV video format from Canons DSLRs and Premeiere Pro".

Why can't you smoothly importing Canon EOS .mov footage in Premiere Pro? As Canon EOS DSLR use H.264 codec for video compressing, it is a most advanced codec that compresses video in highest compression ratio, but not so acceptable for Premiere Pro (or other NLE like Avid MC, FCP, iMovie and FCE).

So if you want to get fluent editing workfolw with Canon MOV files in Premiere Pro (including Premiere Pro CS4/5/6) and keep the best video quality, you will have the need to convert Canon MOV to Premiere best supported AVC .mov format. It will be the best way to get Canon .mov footage into Adobe Premiere Pro without losing quality, you can follow the tutorial below.


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