How to Solve Final Cut Pro and MOV Incompatible Problems

Summary: No sound after importing .MOV to Final Cut Pro X? Rendring too long when editing MOV files in FCP 6/7? Simply follow this tutorial to fix the problems.


As well as we know, Final Cut Pro has announced to support MOV format, but frequently, we still encounter FCP won't import MOV footages issues. Then why it happened and how can we sucessfully import MOV to Final Cut Pro for easy editing? Read on this article and then you will get the reason why we often fail to import MOV video file to Final Cut Pro as well as the solution on how to successfully import MOV into Final Cut Pro.


The fundamental reason of we fail to transfer MOV videos to Final Cut Pro sometimes is different codec existed in different MOV files but not all of these codec can be accpeted by Final Cut Pro. To import MOV into Final Cut Pro smoothly, you may need to transcode MOV video file to Final Cut Pro compatible video format such a Apple ProRes Codec initially. In this case, i recommend you take advantage of the easy-to-use yet prodessional Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which is especially designed for convert MOV (with incompatible video code) to Final Cut Pro editable video format ProRes 422 MOV, which ensures the maxmium editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro. Besides, it also convert other movie clips in AVI, MOD, TOD, MTS, M2TS, DivX, Xvid, ASF, WMV, MKV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, VOB, 3GP, FLV, AVCHD, MP4, H.264, and more to Final Cut Pro friendly ProRes format with fast converting speed while remaining the original visual quality. Just download it and follow the tutorial below to get the work done.

How to convert .MOV to FCP friendly ProRes codec

Step 1. Run MOV converter for Mac and load the MOV files for encoding. You can select the "Merge into one file" box to merge multiple MOV files for easy editing.



Step 2. Click Format bar and go to Final Cut Pro column by choosing "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as best video format for editing MOV clips in Final Cut Pro with good video quality.



Tip: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3. Click "Convert" button to start transcoding MOV video to ProRes for importing to FCP.

When the conversion task is finished, click "Open" button to get the exported files and then import the converted MOV files into Final Cut Pro X or FCP 6/7 to do further editing without any issue.

Addition Tips:

This versatile MOV to ProRes Converter also enables you to convert MOV to Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie, Avid Media Composer. You can respectively choose MPEG-2(*.mpg); Apple InterMediate Codec(*.mov); DNxHD (*.mov) as output format.