How to edit any video in Final Cut Pro?
It is no doubt that Final Cut Pro is always the wonderful choice for filmmakers or multimedia fans for its professional recordings editor features. With it, you can make unique and creative mo vies from camcorder shootings. Also, it can support more source video from these devices, such as iPod, Apple TV, Blu-ray discs, etc.
However, there is still some drawbacks, which may bring some troublesome like glitches still not fixed, Limited Blu-ray support, Redcode still not optimally supported, etc. or even some practical video formats like MP4 can’t be compatible with Final Cut Pro.
Take Gopro HD camera as an example, it produced .mp4 file type, but it can’t be recognized by Final Cut Pro, for the MP4 file type may come from different or complex codecs. It is not an ideal format for FCP editing. In the case, convert the source .mp4 file to FCP friendly format should be an easy way out.
Doremisoft Final Cut Pro Converter for Mac enables you effortlessly get rid of the problem. It can convert almost any video file format like MP4 to FCP, M2TS, MPEG, AVI to Final Cut Pro acceptable file format like MOV. The program is very easy to handle, barely several steps are enough for all the job: Install and run the FCP conversion software, load the desktop video files into the application, choose Final Cut Pro, then do the conversion by hit the button of “START”. After the conversion is done, what you need to import the generated files to Final Cut Pro and go on your editing in it.
Tip 1:The FCP Converter has trial version one. Now, you can free download it and have free experience with it.
More tips on how to import or export video into Final Cut:
1. Turn your Mac computer on.
2. Connect your recording device to your computer through Firewire and make sure the device is in “VCR” mode.
3. Launch Final Cut Pro on your computer.
4. Go to “File” and then select “Log” and “Capture” and choose the first scene that you want to capture by pressing “I.” Fast forward to the end of the section that you want to capture and press “O.” Allow a few seconds for the prompt to work.
5. Go to the lower right hand corner of the capture viewer and choose “Now.” The video feed will rewind and capture video in real time and name the clip.
6. Go to the left hand side of the screen in the browser window to review captured clips. Double-click on the clip that you want to review and put it in the viewer.
7. Modify the clip by selecting “Make Subclip” and rename the video.
8. Drag and drop each subclip to the bottom of the screen into the timeline in which you want it to appear.
9. Choose transitions from the “Effects Tab” and drag them in between each of the subclips.
10. Save your project and then choose “Export” and convert the video and audio into a desired format.-from ehow.com