How to Import Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5

Facing problems while importing Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S files to Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 for further editing? Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix the issue. Let's find it out here.


Designed for point-of-view (POV) shooting during action sports, the compact Sony HDR-AS100V POV Action Cam supports up to Full HD 1080/60p XAVC S video at 50 Mbps. You can also shoot 1280 x 720p slow motion video at 100 or 120 fps, and 800 x 480 slow motion video at 200 or 240 fps. The camera can also capture 13.5MP still images when using the photo mode. However, you will find it a painful experience to import Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S files to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, CS6, CS5 for editing. So what's the available workflow for Sony HDR-AS100V and Premiere?


Granted, Premiere Pro CS6, CC 7 can handle (usually) 4K XAVC S files without much problem, but it is extremely hardware intensive. Thankfully you probably don't have to buy a new computer... but you do need to convert 4K XAVC S to Adobe Premiere Pro using MPEG-2 (1080p) as primary delivery format. The following paragraphs show you how to transcode Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S to MPEG-2 for Premiere. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done with the help of Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac.

With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K H.264(MP4), XAVC, XAVC S, etc footage for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and more. If you work 4K XAVC S files in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows PC, please get Brorsoft Video Converter to solve the issues.

How to convert Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S for editing in Adobe Premiere

Step 1. Launch the Mac XAVC S to Premiere Converter. Click "Add Video" and browse XAVC S clips from AS100V and the software will add it to file list. Or you may click the "Add Folder" button to import all the files in the file structure.



Step 2. Click on "Format" and choose "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" or "MOV(AVC) (.mov)" from " Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas " as the best codec for editing Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S files in Adobe Premiere Pro.



Tips: Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. Note: If you want to get original 4K resolution, just keep the video size as original.



Step 4. Click "Convert" to start transcoding Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S to MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro editing on Mac (Mavericks included).

Once you get the converted MPG file, you can import it to Adobe Premiere Pro.

This XAVC Converter for Premiere will help you convert videos with best quality, and then you can edit Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S videos in Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac as you want with no codec problems.

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