Is there a good free way to convert iPhone HEVC footage to .mov prores or something similar using a Mac (MacOS 10.12) with Premiere CC 2017? Googling provides lots of unreliable looking apps from companies I haven't heard of. Any good (preferably free) recommendations?
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The other question says Windows/Linux, but the top voted applies to macOS as well.– slhckCommented Dec 20, 2018 at 14:53
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Not really. I’m not using windows or Linux. I don’t necessarily need ProRes, just any high quality format suitable for editing on Premiere CC 2017– tomhCommented Dec 20, 2018 at 14:54
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Please read the first answer of the linked question.– slhckCommented Dec 20, 2018 at 14:54
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Go with handbrake. It's a free GUI program for performing transcodes. It is even used to benchmark processors and graphics cards.
Install Homebrew.
Open Terminal. Install FFMPEG with extra features by entering the following on a single line:
brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-freetype --with-libass --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opus --with-x26
Wait about 10 minutes for it to install.
From the Terminal, run FFMPEG, using a line like this:
ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v prores -profile:v 3 -c:a pcm_s16le output.mov
input.mov is the name of your HEVC file. It can also include a full path, but spaces need to be preceded by backslashes “\”
output.mov is an exported ProRes quicktime movie that will play in Premiere
Do process more than one file at a time:
In terminal, go to the directory where your files are.
for i in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v prores -profile:v 3 -c:a pcm_s16le "${i%.*}_out.mov"; done
Output files will appear in the same folder appended with “_out.mov”