How to Import HEVC to Premiere Pro?

Overview

Nowadays, many users have encountered problem when importing HEVC codec in Premiere Pro, but as per Premiere Pro official website, HEVC is one of Premiere pro supported video formats. So what caused the failure? Is there a solution to this?

Well, HEVC(also known as H.265) will surely become the mainstream codec in the future, but at present, the video programs, including Premiere Pro, still has problem in editing HEVC codec, especially the HEVC in MOV container format. Now the following article will introduce three popular methods to solve the HEVC and Premiere Pro incompatibility issue.

Method One: Install HEVC codec

Import the HEVC file to Premiere Pro>Click OK to enable installing the HEVC codec after the window requiring you to install the HEVC codec appears. After installing the HEVC codec, Premiere Pro will theoretically import most of HEVC files, but not all. If Premiere Pro still can not work with your HEVC file, go to the next methods.

Method Two: Change file extension from MOV to MP4

If Method One does not work for you, you need to try to change your MOV extension to MP4 extension. This method is reported workable especially for the MOV HEVC recorded by Apple products running iOS 11 or higher systems.

Method Three: Use HEVC to Premiere Pro converter

If the above two methods still have no help you can try this universal method. This method is reported to solve all HEVC and Premiere Pro incompatibility problem. iDealshare VideoGo is just the right HEVC to Premiere Pro converter that we are talking about. The key features of iDealshare VideoGo are listed as below.
• Easily convert any HEVC with MOV container, MKV container, etc to Premiere Pro more recognized MPEG-2, MPEG-1, etc.
• Easily convert any other unsupported MOV, AVI, MXF, FLV, etc to Premiere Pro more supported video formats.
• Easily convert HEVC to other more easily-handled video formats, like H.264, DivX, XviD, VP8, M-JPEG, WMV, FLV, ASF, etc for extending HEVC usage on more other video application.
• Easily convert any unrecognized video format to any video device, player or editor supported video formats.
• Easily convert between any two video formats.

Guide on Converting HEVC to Premiere Pro MPEG-2, MPEG-1

The following guide will easily help to convert any HEVC to Premiere Pro MPEG-2, MPEG-1.

Make Preparation: Free Download HEVC to Premiere Pro Converter

Free download the HEVC to Premiere Pro Converter - iDealshare VideoGo (for Windows, for Mac), install and run it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import HEVC File

Click the "Add File" button to easily get the HEVC file imported to this HEVC to Premiere Pro converter.

Step 2 Set Premiere Pro supported MPEG-2 as the output video format

Click the "Profile" button >"General Video" category to select MPEG-2, MPEG-1 or other Premiere Pro supported video formats as the output format.

Step 3 Convert HEVC to Premiere Pro

The last step is to click the "Convert" button to complete the HEVC to Premiere Pro supported video format conversion.