How to Convert/Import Sony Alpha AVCHD footage in Premiere Pro

Summary: If you are looking for the best workflow between Sony Alpha cameras and Premiere Pro, you may come to the right place. This article convers the topic of how to convert Sony Alpha AVCHD footage to MPEG for Premiere Pro.

Sony Alpha A7, Alpha A7R, Alpha A7S, are all very popular sellers in the Sony Alpha series, and also in the photography market. All of the three DSLR cameras can record full 1080p AVCHD videos in MTS format. While enjoying the stunning HD image quality, many folks may find it a painful experience to import Sony Alpha A7/A7R/A7S .mts files into Premiere Pro for further editing.

Well, a bit frustrating. The Sony Alpha AVCHD highly compressed files are still not well supported by Premiere Pro including the latest CS6, CC7, as you may encounter many audio and video problems. And I know that Premiere Pro can't handle raw AVCHD videos encode in H.264, so there is no doubt that it will take more time on rendering while ingesting the files. Back to the piont, if you're attempting to edit Alpha A7/A7R/A7S .MTS clips with Premiere Pro, what's the available workaround?

Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix the issues. To get the work done, the H.264 compression format requires that files be transcoded into a format better suited to editing, effects, and color grading; this would usually be .mpg or .wmv files. So the easy option to get Premiere Pro work with AVCHD footage beautifully is to rewrap and convert Sony Alpha AVCHD to MPG or WMV via Sony AVCHD Converter. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time.

To fulfill your task, you can just get Sony Alpha AVCHD Converter for Mac, a powerful video converter, editor and player. It offers an optimized presets for Premiere Pro for easy access. Besides transcoding MOV to Premiere supported videos with optimized settings while keeping the video quality, the all-in-one and easy-to-use toolkit can convert all other popular video formats like AVI, MXF, MP4, WMV, MKV, FLV, ASF, M2TS, VOB, etc. to Premiere Pro, iMovie, FCP, FCE, Avid MC and more NLEs natively supported video formats on Mac OS X (Mavericks and Mountain Lion included) with fast encoding speed. See how below about converting AVCHD to MPG/WMV format.



Supported camera models:
Sony Alpha A7, Sony Alpha A7R, Sony Alpha A7S, Sony Alpha A99, Sony Alpha A77, Sony Alpha A7, Sony Alpha A65, Sony Alpha A3000, Sony Alpha NEX-3N, Sony Alpha NEX-7, Sony Alpha NEX-6, Sony Alpha NEX-5.

How to Convert Sony Alpha AVCHD (.mts/.m2ts) for Premiere Pro?

Step 1. After downloading, install and run this AVCHD Converter for Premiere Pro, just copy the AVCHD files from your camera to your hard drive. Import the files to the software for converting.



Step 2. Click "Format" bar to choose the output format. click "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas", you will see several profiles. The MOV (AVC) (*.mov) is recommended for its good video quality and perfect video/audio sync settings.



Step 3. Click "Settings" button, you can adjust the video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video&Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.

Step 4. Click the arrow button to start transcoding Alpha AVCHD to MPG(MPEG-2) for Adobe Premiere Pro.

After the process completes, click "Open" button to find the generated videos, and then you can transfer the recordings to Adobe Premiere easily and quickly. In this way, you can edit your Sony Alpha A7/A7R/A7S AVCHD .mts files in Premiere Pro smoothly.

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