How to Import Gopro Footage into Premiere Pro (hevc/h264 or hevc)

Handbrake's batch operation system takes a bit of futzing to figure out, as you first need to select the folder for it to use. And sometimes I have to select and tell it to go to work a couple times before it actually does the batch.

I use the options to match frame-size of the original, and for compression, set it high enough quality that is shows it as "near placebo".

Neil

Another idea is to Convert GoPro to Cineform to edit https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/I-can-t-import-4K-video-from-GoPro-Hero-6-to-Premiere-Pro/td-p/9482788

This  can be confusing, no doubt.

First, Premiere Pro can import the GoPro files ... but ... depending on your CPU/RAM/GPU, it may or may not play them back smoothly due to the extreme compression options used by those cameras to get the data "smallified" rapidly. It uses a special chip in the camera to do the encoding. Most computers do not of course have that particular chip to de-encode the media.

Some Intel CPUs have "QuickSync" which helps with that. Many do not. There are now some things in certain AMD CPUs also that I think help with this.

So often, to get good playback it's useful to transcode to an intraframe codec, or at least to a long-GOP format with less extreme use of things like partial i-frames and long picture 'groups'. Handbrake can do that to an easier to process form of H.264, and you missed the capability of that app to batch process, which it does do. There are online files and the help for Handbrake that do cover the process.

You could also use MediaEncoder, especially to make say a ProRes or Cineform transcode which as an intrframe codec, would play back ever so much easier within your system.

Neil

I dont know what Support told you but its plain nonsens.

Premiere support H.264/5 in 2020 and 2019.

On a side note hevc is a pita to edit. Transcoding or proxies is the way to go.

With Handbrake you can batch encode and export to 4K.