Smoothly Edit Nikon D810 MOV files with Adobe Premiere Pro

Summary: Have got a Nikon D810 and want to import/edit the D810 MOV footages in Adobe Premiere Pro without issue; check out the guide to learn how to convert Nikon D810 MOV to Adobe Premiere Pro compatible MPEG-2 video format.



When Nikon D810 was launched, it had an immediate impact on the DSLR market, and not only in the professional sector. It is wonderful to be taken to record full HD videos(H.264 MOV) when travelling. Whereas, when users wanna import Nikon D810 MOV to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing before sharing with friends, problems occurred: the Premiere can’t handle the 1080p H.264 files perfectly, the editing work seems so slow.

Q: “Adobe Premiere Pro doesn’t recognize raw video files from my Nikon D810. Any solution? Is there some setting or something I can do?”

Well, I’ve found out the solution to fix the Nikon MOV in Adobe Premiere Pro issues. If you are also the Nikon D810 owner and had the similar trouble with Premiere Pro CS5, CS6, CC, go through the article to check out the solution.

So how to import video clips from Nikon D810 into Premiere Pro for editing smoothly with no problems? The reason behind that you can’t edit Nikon DSLR recordings in Premiere smoothly is due to the format and codec. H.264 MOV is a long GOP format highly compressed that is not a good editing format for some common editors. The best method to solve those problems is to transcode Nikon D810 MOV to Adobe Premiere Pro most compatible format, for instance, the MPEG-2 with Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, a top Mac Nikon H.264 MOV Converter.

Overall, the Nikon MOV Converter comes with supports for a wide range of video editing software and media devices, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and Final Cut Express. It helps you convert Nikon, Sony, Canon, Panasonic cameras recordings to any editable format like MPEG-2, DNxHD, ProRes, AIC. mov, etc as you need without any quality loss. If you are troubled by the importing issues on Windows, please turn to Brorsoft Video Converter.

Convert/Import Nikon D810 videos to Premiere Pro on Mac

Step 1: Load Nikon D810 footage

Install and launch Nikon MOV to Premiere Pro Converter, and then click "Add" button to browse to Nikon MOV footage either from cam HDD or SD card or drag the footage from your camera to the program.



Step 2: Select output format

Choose output format. This video converter offers optimized format preset for Adobe Premiere. Just click “Format” menu firstly and then follow “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” to set MPG format.



Tip: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click “Settings” icon to and enter “Profile Settings” panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.



Step 3: Start converting Nikon D810 video

Finally hit the Convert button; it will convert Nikon D810 .mov to .mpg for Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac immediately.

When the conversion process shows in 100% with the top MOV to MPEG-2 Converter Mac, you can get the resulted videos from output folder easily for easier editing in Premier Pro CS4/CS5/CS6/CC.

More Guides:

How to convert Nikon MOV files for iMovie
How to upload Nikon MOV videos to Sony Vegas