Edit ISO Files with Final Cut Pro X/7/6 smoothly

Summary: This article mainly aims to help those who have .iso files and wanna import them to Final Cut Pro for further editing.

An ISO file, often called an ISO image, is a single file, perfect representation of an entire CD, DVD, or BD. The entire contents of a disc can be precisely duplicated in a single ISO file. Chances are you have some .iso files ripped from DVD discs or downloaded from the Internet, and then wanna make some modifications with Final Cut Pro before enjoying and sharing with friends or family, but only to find Final Cut Pro cannot recognize .iso files. How frustrating it is, right? If you are being trapped in such troubles, you'll won't miss this article!

In fact, it is quite difficult for Final Cut Pro as well as other NLEs including iMovie, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, etc to extract its main file for editing since an ISO image contains all contents of the disc, such as menu navigation, the main movie, every single track and information about the structure of the disc. So if you stick to editing ISO files with Final Cut Pro, the recommended suggestion is to convert .iso to Final Cut Pro a more edit-friendly video format like Apple ProRes Codec, which ensuring the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with Final Cut Pro.

To finish the task perfectly, you can consider of using Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac, which can help you transcode ISO to FCP native editing-friendly format – Apple ProRes without losing any video quality on Mac OS X (El Capitan and Yosemite included). Besides, this software can also convert all regular format including but not limited to Final Cut Pro, H.265 MKV, H.265 MP4, 3D videos, AVI MOV, MP4, M4V, MPG, iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut
Express, etc. Click the Download button below to get the program and check out the easy steps to convert and import ISO to Final Cut Pro without any troubles.

Convert DVD ISO image to Final Cut Pro

Step 1: Load ISO files to the program

Launch the ISO to Final Cut Pro Converter and click "Add File" button to locate the ISO file(s) you want to add. Check the "Merge into one file" box, you can join several .iso clips together if necessary.



Step 2: Select output format

When it comes to choosing the output format for these target videos, you directly one choose "Final Cut Pro" preset. For compression, Apple ProRes 422 will do fine for keeping the original ISO quality the same and creating a Final Cut Pro friendly file format. Apple has made a few variations to the ProRes family - use ProRes 422(Proxy) or (LT) for smaller file sizes(Applied to FCP 7 and above version).



Step 3 (optional): Adjust the video, audio settings

Click "Settings" to fix the frame rate, bitrate, video size, etc to your needs. If you want to edit in Final Cut without having to render the clips while editing, all the frame sizes must be the same as the sequence settings. You can save a lot of render time by making all the clips the same size with this Mac MP4 converter.



Step 4: Start ISO to ProRes conversion on Mac

Click the big "Convert" button at the bottom right corner to finish transcoding ISO to ProRes for FCP.

When the conversion is done, you can find the output files by clicking "Open" button on the main interface, then you can transfer the encoded ISO files to your Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7 or 6 to edit with ease. Once you've got your video edited, you can export to any codec/container that you'd like for playing and sharing.