For transcoding in the Adobe products, there's three different paths one can do.
First, if you use Prelude for "ingestion" purposes, that can do the work. Prelude is designed to view files, and then use presets that you make within it to copy to (including multiple!) locations on your system, rename, transcode, and add metadata. With a little learning & practice, you can set it up to get through a fair amount of media with not that much time of your's spent on doing things.
Second, Media Encoder (or AME) which is included with PrPro, can be used manually (you open it, navigate to files & select, then apply a preset to them), or automatically by using watch folders. For this kind of thing, I'd use watch folders. You can easily setup watch folders in AME with a preset so that as soon as you drop files in it, AME starts whatever you've got in the preset ... up to renaming & transcoding ... then puts the finished files in the folder you've specified as part of the watch folder setup. Within that setup would be of course the choice of which format/codec/options are to be used on the media involved.
To get precisely what you want, you likely will need to create an encoding preset from the lower left panel, taking one of the included presets and then going through and modifying as needed to get your final choice. Name & save that encoding preset, then use it as the preset for a watch folder.
Third, you can use the Ingestion process that's been added to PrPro in the 2017 version, In the Media Browser panel in PrPro, there's a check box with "Ingest" next to it. Select that, then go to the wrench "settings" icon next to it, to open the dialog box for setting up ingestion.
There's an option to create proxies and another to transcode. For your needs, you might use this to transcode, and you would first need to make an "ingestion" preset in AME, and save that to the ProgramFiles/Adobe/Premiere Pro 2017/Presets folder. After doing this, restart PrPro, go to the Media Browser selecting that wrench icon and the option to transcode, then using the resulting dialog box to select transcoding & then the particular preset you've just made.
On thinking about this, it might be easiest for your general working purposes to both transcode and create proxies then within PrPro. This would mean dropping the camera-produced media in a chosen folder on your computer (the watched folder), and when AME is done creating your transcodes, opening PrPro and ingesting using the proxy process there. You'd have both "original" media in high-quality full frame-size and the proxies to make faster editing.
For the transcoding by AME, use a full-quality intraframe media such as the Cineform 10-bit YUV or the DNxHD/R using the watch folder process from AME. I also recommend DNxHD/R over ProRes even for those on Mac as 1) it's totally cross-platform and 2) it's "design" is very recent and it's considered actually better optimized for modern cameras/computers/media than ProRes. Match your frame-rate and size ... and if using the DNxHR for that 4k media, use the HQ version as you want the high quality setting of that, but don't need the 10-bit 4:2:2 of the HQ-X version, as you've only got 8-bit media there to begin with.
There's a couple Cineform preset proxy options in the Ingestion dialog for PrPro, but you can also create new ones to fit if you choose. That starts in AME ... lower-left corner where you can create new presets, choose to create an ingestion preset, start with a base codec choice of either the Cineform (my fav for proxies) or DNxHD/R, then use the various options to get a frame-rate of the same as your media, but scaled down to maybe 1/4 the width/height of the media. Save that as noted above in the PrPro presets folder, close & restart PrPro, and your custom ingestion preset will now be available.
Doing this suggested process of transcoding to Cineform or DNxHR via a watch folder/AME, then importing that media into PrPro 2017 and creating proxies, would take a few minutes of having things run while you have a last morning doughnut. Or for the transcoding, you might run that overnight.
However ... within PrPro, the editing process will now go very smoothly ... easily ... and pleasantly.
Neil
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