Tips on importing AVCHD Footage to FCP X for editing

 

Final Cut Pro X, a comprehensive professional editing software was launched by Apple in June,2011.It was considered as Apple’s revolutionary editing program specially designed for professionals to get the ideal video results.Almost all users would like to be skillful in using such great editor so that they can take the full advantages of its powerful function, but what if you are a beginner with not much knowledge or skills on Final Cut Pro X? Now, we will guide you to have a quick study of how to operate in Final Cut Pro X easily.

Step 1. Create a New Event

Starting from the very beginning, you should first copy the disk image to you PC desktop for backup. Then, run the Final Cut Pro X program.Entering the main screen, click “File”-”New Event” to find the disk image you have just copied and name a new event by date, say New Event 9-3-12.

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Step 2. Create a New Project

 

Browse to “Project Library” to find the disk image, click the “Add” icon to creat a new project.Then,choose the project in “Project Library” and click on the inspector.After clicking you will see a dialogue box with some options to modify project properties such as Name, Default Event, Starting Timecode etc.

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Step 3.Capture Footage

Make sure the “Import Media” window in Final Cut Pro X remains open. Insert memory card of your camcorders/cameras like Sony FS100, Sony rx100,Panasonic Lumix FZ45 and more. Next, click the “Import Selected” button to choose the video clips that need to be imported to Final Cut Pro X.For example, transporting FS100 AVCHD to FCP X. Then, set the path of storing the footages. Remember to select the options like Transcoding, Video, Audio etc in the dialogue box.

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Step 4. Edit the video footage

This is the key part of using Final Cut Pro X since you know more and more video shutterbugs would like to do post editing to make their homemade video more perfect, for instance, Sony rx100 users would like to edit sony rx100 avchd in final cut pro X so that they can upload the video to famous video websites for sharing.Let’s get started from pressing “Events Library ” to choose the target clips. As we can see on the tool bar, there are several button offering different functions. For example,click the “Append” option or the “E” key, we can add to the end of the timeline after other existing clips while the “Connect” option or the “Q key enables us to maintain the existing audio track of the clips. As for the most important part-Trimming tool allows us to adjust the out point of the first clip and the in point of the second clip.

Step 5.Export the footage

After finishing the editing, click the “Share Menu”–”Export Media” to export the video footage You can choose H.264, Apple ProRes 422(HQ)or Apple ProRes 4444 as the desired video codec.

Now you see, it is not as hard as you may think to use this great editor. However,it was met with significant criticism for its disadvantages such as format limitation.It fails to support quite a few video formats like AVCHD which is generated by the camcoders mentioned above, which lead to the constant complaining like “I am currently working on a project in which they are shooting with the new Panasonic Lumix FZ45 but I cannot edit the videos on Final Cut Pro X which is like a piece of garbage to me.” Well,in such case, Doremisoft AVCHD to FCP Video Converter for Mac will be of great help to convert Panasonic Lumix FZ45 AVCHD Lite to MOV-favorable format by Final Cut Pro X with little ease.This AVCHD Videos Converter is scientifically developed to handle all AVCDH problems, helping users to import AVCHD footage to Final Cut Pro (FCP X/7/6) for editing efficiently and flawlessly.

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