Best Method to Import MP4 Videos into Adobe Premiere Pro with Ease

Adobe Premiere did announce to import MP4 videos. But when you import MP4 files to Premiere Pro, it will tell you the file has no audio or video. Why you are not able to import MP4 into Premiere? What is the compatible video codec of MP4 format for Adobe Premiere? Just learn more details from the article now.

Part 1: Why Cannot Import MP4 into Premiere Pro

When you want to import MP4 into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, you should learn more about the compatible formats. Here are the recommended video formats, H.264, MPEG, M2V, MTS, MOV, AVI and TIFF sequence. In order to add the videos in MP4, you should make sure the video codec is H.264.

In order to add the MP4 videos to Premiere Pro, you can either convert the MP4 video to MOV, MPEG-2 and other compatible format, or simply tweak the video codec as H.264/MP4 for further editing.

Part 2: Best Method to Import and Edit MP4 with Premiere Pro

If you need to convert the videos to MP4, tweak the H.264 video codec, trim the files into different clips, or even edit the MP4 files as Adobe Premiere Pro alternative, Tipard Video Converter Ultimate should be the desired tool you can take into consideration. Moreover, you can also rip any DVD to video or audio files with ease. It supports more than 500 media formats, including the 4K and HD video files.

• 1. Convert video to MP4, AVI, MPEG2 and other Premiere compatible formats.
• 2. Tweak the video codec as H.264, frame rate, bitrate, sample rate and more.
• 3. Trim a large video into different clips that you can import into Premiere Pro.
• 4. Apply filters, add watermark and edit background as Premiere alternative.

Download and install the MP4 to Premiere Pro converter, you can launch the program on your computer. Click the Converter menu to load the MP4 files or other videos into the program. After that, you can convert, manage or edit the videos according to your requirement.

If you want to import the MP4 files, you can select the output format as MP4 file format and click the Settings option to tweak the video codec as H.264. Moreover, you can also tweak the other parameters, such as bitrate, frame rate, audio channel and more others.

When the MP4 files are too large to load into Premiere Pro, you can also click the Clip icon to add a new segment, split the MP4 video into different parts, copy and paste the segment, or even merge the video clips into one with Merge into one file option.

Moreover, you can also add effects, add watermark, edit the background audio and video subtitle for the MP4 video. Click the Save to option to choose the destination folder and tap the Convert All button to convert MP4 video to Premiere Pro compatible format.

You may need: How to extract subtitles from MP4

Part 3: FAQs about Importing MP4 to Premiere Pro

Conclusion

Why you are not able to load MP4 video files into Premiere Pro? The video codec should be the major reason. You can simply tweak the video codec to add the files into the program. Of course, you can also compress the video and clip the video into different clips with Tipard Video Converter Ultimate with ease.