GoPro Hero 4 4k footage & Premiere Pro CC workflow

[hourtayter]

Hello, just a quick and hopefully simple question to answerb- I've got a GoPro Hero 4 camera with several 4K videos I'd like to edit together, and having used Premiere CC quite a bit over the last few months would like to use it for the task and putting a few transitions, text etc on the finished edit.

Question I have is how best to import the 4K footage from the GoPro into Premiere to work with it? The files are mp4s straight off the GoPro, there is the time honoured way of using GoPro Studio software to import the footage, remove the fisheye effect and do some colour correction work then export each video in turn in the Cineform codec to preserve the quality but as this can be a bit time consuming, especially exporting each clip in turn, is there a better way of working, or more simpler way to get the footage into Premiere, retaining it's 4k quality?

I'm working with the latest version of Premiere CC by the way, if that helps/makes a difference.

Thanks in advance! 

[Bike Mi Vie]

Have you tried getting plugins that remove the fisheye inside of Adobe and just dropping the mp4 into it?

I believe I see a whole bunch of GoPro plugins you can use inside Premiere tha color corrects and remove fisheye

[Kristian Gabriel · Accepted solution]

Adobe Premiere has native GoPro support and has a series of PRESETS in the EFFECTS panel that REMOVES THE DISTORTION in GoPro footage. We usually just natively import the footage and then use the appropriate presets to undistort the footage. You can add an ADJUSTMENT LAYER and then add a single PRESET to your entire timeline--or if you mix footage, you can add the presets to individual clips. If you have cut several clips from the same piece of video footage, you can use Premiere's convenient MASTER panel to add effects and have them affect every instance of that clip in the timeline. This should be very quick. Obviously, if you are mixing a lot of footage with variable framerates,etc--it would be better to process all your clips and camera footage into a single format like Cineform. It's so solid.

[hourtayter]

That's great, thanks very much for that – they all have the same frame rate so no issues there (thankfully!)