Adobe Premiere Elements with stunning features is popular video editing software for us. The point here, sometimes, you will find it’s a painful experience when loading Sony 4K XAVC files into Premiere Elements 13. And there are some frequently asked question quoted as below.
Q1: Does Premiere Elements 13 Support 4K video?
Somehow my previous question disappeared. Does this program support 4K to burn to 4K Blu Rays?
Q2: Premiere Elements 13 crash
I’ve tried to get some 4K XAVC footage from an F55 to work in Premiere Elements 13. It imports, but when I try to do anything with it, it crashes.
As far as I know, Premiere Elements 13 has project presets for the video with the resolution of 3840 x 2160 (a 4K resolution) under NTSC only. It also offers export of the 3840 x 2160 resolution under Publish+Share/Computer/XAVC-S. However, there is no burn to Blu-ray with any 4K resolution. The compatibility between 4K videos and Adobe Premiere Elements is still an unsolved mystery in that some persons can import 4K videos into Elements, while the others can not:
On the one hand, the computer configuration and operation environment should play an important role on this aspect. On the other hand, bypassing 4K issue, XAVC, as a newly high compressed video format, is not supported by most NLEs, including Elements, FCP, iMovie .etc. So to get rid of the issue, the first step we need to do is to make 4K XAVC files editable in Premiere Elements 13.
Here we suggest you give a go with Pavtube XAVC Converter for Mac or Win which work smoothly in converting Sony 4K XAVC to a more “edit” friendly codec for Premiere Elements 13 like MPEG-2/AVC MOV. The most attractive thing is that it can downscale your 4K videos into common 1080p so that NLEs can afford well. If you're troubled by the similar problem, just download the right version and follow the guide below to start conversion.
Before processing:
Back up/Transfer the 4K XAVC footage to Mac computer - copy the whole video folder to your computer hard drive, not just the individual .xavc files.
Step 1. Install Launch the Mac XAVC to PE Converter. Click "Add Video" and browse to Sony XAVC clips and the software will add it to file list. Repeat the operation to load multiple XAVC videos. Or you may click the "Add Folder" button to import all the XAVC 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 4K XAVC in Premiere Elements 13. What's more, you can also transcode XAVC toFCP for editing or to QuickTime and iPad Air for playback.
Step 3. Click on "Settings" to redefine output quality. You can also set a different video resolution (1920x1080/1440x1080/1280x720/720x480), frame rate (24p/30p), bitrate, audio channels, etc. For users who would like to retain exactly the same settings (without any quality loss), set target settings the same to source video.
Step 4. Click "Convert" to start transcode 4K XAVC to MPEG-2/MOV for Premiere Elements 13 editing on Mac/PC. Once you get the converted .MOV/.MPG file, you can import it to Premiere Elements 13.
Now you can edit your Sony 4K XAVC videos in Premiere Elements 13 with ease.
