Import AVCHD camcorder footages to FCP for editing
Before you buy a new AVCHD camcorder, you hope someone walk you through the steps of getting the video from the camcorder into FCP. And YouTube teaching video often shares some useful video on software application, and you may see this teaching video like this:
Plug in your camera, bring up the Log & Capture Transfer window.
Select the clips you want to import and off you go.
FCP will convert them into Pro Res 422 or AIC, depending on what you choose (but FCE will only convert to AIC).
This is the situation while HD camcorder video is compatible with Final Cut Pro. But if the situation happens that MTS files grey out when you try to import them to FCP for the reason such as your PC is not AVCHD available Intel-based Macintosh computers or because the Mac OS X currently not supported DVD-based AVCHD camcorder. To convert the AVCHD videos to FCP friendly formats, you need a professional app to decode AVCHD videos to FCP without any quality loss, no audio loss and no frame rate changes. AVCHD Converter for Mac is an awesome tool to convert AVCHD (MTS, M2TS,TS) to FCP formats, like DV, HDV,MOV, MPEG-4 etc. It’s specially designed for Canon, JVC, Sony, Hitachi and Panasonic camera users with easy-to-use interface and powerful functions. Owning this Mac AVCHD Convert, everyone can have “highest quality” for their home videos. With it, just a few clicks you could import avchd video to FCP with great ease.
Preparation: Plug in your camera and save MTS video on the hard drive.
Step 1: Add MTS/M2TS files
Have downloaded and run AVCHD Converter for Mac already? Then open main interface and click Add Files for adding MTS files.
Step 2: Output Settings
As you can see the main window shows up. Click Profile and you have to select your prefer output video format.
Step 3: Edit Videos
Clip: Shrink an AVCHD video size or cut video into small clips
Edit: Crop plays area, adjust video frame effects, preview the video files, etc for editing AVCHD videos
Merge: Join a couple of camera clips or merge different files into one.
Settings: Next to the pull-down menu of Profile and adjust the Resolution, Frame rate, Encoder and Bit rate of AVCHD files.
Step 4. Conversion.
When all the presets and edit done, hit the “Start” to undertake the converting progress.Then, you can upload the converted files to fcp and edit avchd to fcp.
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