Adobe Premiere Pro, a successor of Adobe Premiere, is a time-line based film editing tool tailored for professionals while its sibling Adobe Premiere Elements is targeted at consumer market for novice editors and consumers. It is extremely powerful with a lot of more advanced editing features and advantages compared to Adobe Premiere Elements, like multiple camera editing, color correction tools, various sequences support, high bit-depth rendering, etc. By using it, you can edit and rearrange your raw footage to create new remarkable masterpiece to share to your friends and family members. Except for your own home videos, you can also edit other sources of videos to integrate them to your movies to make them even better. Here I'm talking about movies you purchased or rented from iTunes Store. As you may find it's hard to edit iTunes movies with Adobe Premiere Pro, in this article, I will show you the tools and easy steps you'll need to edit iTunes M4V videos in Adobe Premiere Pro in just few minutes.
Video editing is a complicated job. To begin with, you need to have a Windows 7 or Mac 10.8 Computer with Dual-Core 2.0GHZ processor and 4G memory or above. A mobile phone or tablet simply won't work since they are not powerful enough. Second, you need to have the Adobe Premiere Pro on your computer. The trial version is valid for 30 days for free. If it is over 30 days, you have to buy a subscription license for the Adobe Premiere Pro. Finally, you need an iTunes DRM removal software too. You may think it is as easy as editing other common video formats you shoot in Adobe Premiere Pro, but it is not the case for iTunes M4V videos which are FairPlay DRM protected. By default, the DRM protection limits the iTunes videos from playing and editing in other devices or software except Apple's. Don't worry. You can simply install DRmare iTunes to Adobe Premiere Pro Converter which is the most advanced DRM removal tool for iTunes movies and TV shows. With this smart app, you can easily eliminate DRM protection and import the iTunes movies to Adobe Premiere Pro for editing.
After downloading and installing DRmare iTunes to Adobe Converter to your computer, you can simply follow the tutorial here and begin to remove DRM from the iTunes M4V videos in 3 basic steps:
Now you can edit the DRM-free MP4 videos like other common movies or footage shoot by yourself with Adobe. You can import them to the Premiere Pro in two ways. If you are the first time to use Adobe Premiere Pro, please read on.
1. Import iTunes videos by the top menu. You can launch Adobe Premiere Pro to create a project first and then select 'File' > 'Import', then you will see a pop up window, you can locate your MP4 files and click 'Open' to add them to the library.
2. Import iTunes videos by the media browser. After opening your project, it will show you a media browser with a list of your hard drives and devices on the bottom left. Please simply open the hard drive or devices to find the files you want to import and drag them to the project library.
Adobe Premiere Pro is so powerful and it may require a relatively long time to master it well. If you are a new user, we'd suggest you to find more tutorial online to use it.
If you are still unclear about how to remove iTunes DRM and import the M4V videos to edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, you can follow the video guide below:
