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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

How to Get Android Videos into Final Cut Pro for further editing

Summary: Have troubles of importing Android videos into Final Cut Pro for smooth editing? No worry! This article aims to solve the Final Cut Pro won't import Android video issues.

As is known to all that Android now is exceedingly hot among people all over the world. More and more Android phones like Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4, LG G3, Moto X, Sony Xperia Z3, Google Nexus 6, HTC One (M8), etc. are capable of capturing HD videos. Chances are you have shot some HD videos with your Android devices and now want to add them into Final Cut Pro for making a home movie, However, you may encounter similar problems when importing the Android videos to Final Cut Pro like these:

"I try to edit video from my Samsung Galaxy S5 — android — with FCP. But FCP won’t accept the videos from Android. Is there any option to fix it?"

"When I tried importing the videos(captured by my Android phone) to FCP, I got this error: the file could not be imported. Unspecified error. What can I do to fix this?"

Actually, the video you shot by your Android phone/tablet mostly is 3gp or mp4 format video, both of which are not friendly

for editing in Final Cut Pro. To solve this dilemma, you need to take a little up front time and set up a workflow that will convert your Android video into a more editing-friendly format, such a FCP's ProRes. In order to finish the task perfectly, a professional video converter program like Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is required!

With it, you can effortlessly transcode Android video to ProRes encoded MOV files, ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro (no matter FCP X, FCP 7 or FCP 6). More than that, the Mac video converter can also allows you to convert any virtually video like AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, MP4, MPEG, etc. to Final Cut Pro as well as iMovie, FCE, Avid MC, Adobe Premiere, etc for your choice. If you are a Windows user, you can also turn to the Windows version for help! Below is how to convert Android videos to ProRes for using in FCP beautifully.

PS: If you're using an iPad and want to put iPad video to Final Cut Pro for editing, please see How to Import iPad Videos to Final Cut Pro for further editing

Free download the app:


(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5.8)

How to convert Android video for editing in Final Cut Pro smoothly

Step 1: Run the Android video file converter, and then click the “Add” button to load the videos clips from your Android tablet or phone.



Step 2: 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 MP4 quality the same and creating a Final Cut 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).



Tip: Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video.

Step 3: Simply click the “Convert” button to start converting and everything else will be automated. If you have added quite a bunch of video files, it would take some time to convert. In such case, you can click Option and tick the box “
Shut down the computer after conversion”.

You’re done. Now your Android files will be converted into ProRes .mov; ready to be imported into Final Cut Pro X/7/6 beautifully.

More Guides:

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

How to Convert VOB to Final Cut Pro for further editing

How to Import Avid MXF into Final Cut Pro

How to Get MPG to Play in Final Cut Pro smoothly

How can i edit WebM files in Final Cut Pro freely

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