Open Adobe Premere Pro
Make a new project
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.
Click OK
Once you've created your project choose File > Import... or Command + I
Navigate to your A7Sii or any other types of HD to 4K native camera footage clips
It's easier to select the MP4 files if you sort by kind, by clicking on the word "kind" in the kind column
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
You may get this error but the files are still readable
Then open Adobe Media Encoder
Back in Premiere select the clips that you imported from the camera cards
Choose >File>Export>Media
Export Settings choose the Preset "Apple ProRes 422" No need to change anything else this preset is all set
click on Queue
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!!
Click the green play button to start the export
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
Navigate to the ProRes files and choose 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.

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