How to Import iPad Videos to Final Cut Pro for further editing

Summary: Having problems of importing recorded videos from your iPad Air or iPad Mini to Final Cut Pro? Simply follow this tutorial to get the easiest way to fix iPad Video and FCP issues.

Nowadays, more and more people are fond of shooting videos with iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4/3/2, iPad 4/3/2. Before uploading them to YouTube or posting on Facebook, they may probable choose to take use of Final Cut Pro to make some modifications. However, when trying to import iPad captured videos into Final Cut Pro, they always encounter some troubles like the file won’t play and audio drift. Searching high and low online, I got some clues.

In fact, the codec that the iPad uses is H264 and it can’t be supported well by FCP. Even if you can drop the iPad videos to Final Cut Pro directly, some problems were always around you. To solve this dilemma, you need to take a little up front time and set up a workflow that will convert your iPad video into a more editing-friendly format, such a FCP's ProRes. To be honest, it is not hard as you image as long as you have a professional video converter like Brorsoft Video
Converter for Mac.

This program features high efficiency and seamless conversion. With it, you can transcode iPad video to Final Cut Pro compatible ProRes encoded MOV, ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7 and FCP 6. Besides, it also exports advanced encoders like Apple Intermediate Codec, DNxHD, etc. allowing you to convert video to seamlessly fit iMovie, iDVD, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, etc. If you're editing iPad Videos on Mac, chances are you already installed this great utility. If not, download it from below:



Converting iPad Video to Final Cut Pro edit-friendly format on Mac

1. Install the program on Mac and run it. Drag the iPad files to the software. Or you can also click "Add" button on the top of the main interface to import video to the program. It supports batch conversion and joining multiple video clips into one file.



2. Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format. This format is specially designed for FCP, so that you can edit your original iPhone video in Final Cut Pro perfectly.



3. Click Settings icon to modify the video, audio parameters. We suggest to keep the same size as you shot (if 1080, then 1080)... same frame rate as you shot (if 29.97, then 29.97).



4. Click the “Convert” icon under the preview window, and the Mac video converter will start transcode iPhone footage for FCP(X) on Mac.

After the conversion, click "Open" to locate the result videos and then launch Final Cut Pro, choose File > Import > Files…, and browse to where you save the converted iPhone clips to. Choose the videos that you'd like to add. Now you can start fun away with editing iPhone video footage in Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7/6 without problems.

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