Name your project.

And Browse to a place you'd like your project to be saved...like your external hard drive.

Under the Scratch Disk tab, if you have every dropdown as "Same as Project"

you should be fine.

Once you've created your project

choose File > Import...

or

Command + I

Highlight the clips you want

click Import

Open the Hard Drive that contains the Card Backups that was made

Navigate to the Private>PANA_GRP folder for each card and click Import

Back in Premiere select the clips that you imported from

the camera cards

Export Settings choose

the Preset "Apple ProRes 422"

No need to change anything else this preset is all set

Media Encoder will load up the selected files to export

Click on Output File

blue text to navigate where to save the new media

Choose the drive and folder to put the new media

Keep the file names the same!!

When the files are finished there will be a green check box

Now Use the ProRes Files for editing.

Next close Media Encoder and go back to Premiere project that you made and bring in the ProRes media files

Choose >File>Import

To make a sequence mark an in and out point on the source clip and drag it into the timeline to make sure the timeline matches the source

clips

Check Sequence Settings

Go to >Sequence>Sequence Settings

Timeline should be 23.976

Frame Size 3840 x 2160

Square Pixels

Now edit in Premiere with the ProRes Media

This will be the codec you will use for output as well.

No need to go back to camera originals unless you need

to fix a problem with lost media or similar.