Nikon D3s Import: How to get Nikon D3S video into Premiere Pro

Summary: If you need guidance to import the video files created by the Nikon D3s into Adobe Premier Pro, just read on this article to find what you need.



When the Nikon D3s was launched, it had an immediate impact on the DSLR market, and not only in the professional sector. Recently I read some threads(years before) about how to import Nikon D3s video to Premiere Pro. In this article I will give some experience on Nikon D3s to Premiere Pro workflow. Go through the page to learn more.

From the threads we can easily know that Nikon D3s records videos still using AVI files with Motion Jpeg compression. In fact it’s an old format and as we know Nikon DSLR now uses MOV (H.264) compression format. To edit your Nikon D3s HD movies in Premiere Pro you will need to prepare your movie footage before you can edit it in the Premiere Pro timeline. I will walk you through how to use Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac to encode Nikon D3s AVI to Adobe PP.

Overall, this Mac video converter comes with supports for a wide range of video editing software and media devices, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and Final Cut Express. It helps you convert Nikon, Sony, Canon, Panasonic cameras recordings to any editable format like MPEG-2, DNxHD, ProRes, AIC. mov, etc as you need without any quality loss. If you are troubled by the importing issues on Windows, please turn to Brorsoft Video Converter.

Follow these steps:

Step 1: After launching the video converter tool, click the Add button to load your footage to it from your Nikon D3S.

Tip: If necessary, you can click the button "Merge into one" to join several videos to one file.



Step 2: Click "Format" pull down list to select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as the best video format for Premiere Pro. WMV, MOV formats are the good choice as well.



Tip -Profile Settings: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start encoding Nikon D3s videos for importing to Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6. When the conversion task is finished, click "Open" button to get the exported files. You're now ready to get the result files into Adobe Premiere Pro to do further editing.

Additional Tip:

This Nikon D3s video converter also allows you to convert Nikon DSLR .mov to Premiere Pro as well as Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid Media Composer and more NLE systems.

Learn More:

How to import Nikon H.264 MOV files into Sony Vegas Pro
Transcode Nikon Videos to ProRes for Final Cut Pro
How to Import Nikon MOV footage to iMovie