It's great fun to see your recorded videos being loved and appreciated by millions of people. Before uploading, you may want to edit them. If you use Final Cut Pro to edit the iPhone videos, you may encounter problems like these:
"I can't take my iPhone 5 videos (.mov) and load them into the FCP timeline. Any suggestions why this is happening?"
"I have a ton of old iPhone captured files and I would like to be able to pull into Final Cut Pro. However, I can't open and import these iPhone videos to Final Cut Pro directly. Any solution?"
In fact, the iPhone (including iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, etc.) records in MPEG-4 and outputs its files as .MOV files (the container). Files are compressed using the h.264 codec (as opposed to AAC or Xvid and DivX usually found in .AVI containers). So the files you are getting out of iPhone are suited to be delivered as is, which is usually not what you want. To fix the problem, the easy workaround is transcode iPhone MOV to a more editing-friendly format, such a FCP's ProRes.
Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. What you need is just a common video converter like Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which features high efficiency and seamless conversion. With it, you can effortlessly transcode iPhone 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're using a Windows computer, simply turn to Video Converter for Windows. Now, just download the right software on computer and follow the guide below to start conversion.
Free download the iPhone Video to FCP Converter trial version:
(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5) 
Converting iPhone Videos for Editing in FCP 6/7/X
Step 1: Import iPhone videos
Install and run the iPhone Video to FCP Converter on your Mac, then run it. Click on "Add", and browse your files; select all the iPhone .mov files you wanna convert. If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to FCP, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.
Step 2: Choose ProRes as output format
Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro > Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format.
Tip: Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and mroe.
Step 3: Start conversion
After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the iPhone video to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing iPhone video in Final Cut Pro X/7/6 with ease.
Related Guides:
How to Get Android Videos into Final Cut Pro for further editing
How to Import iPad Videos to Final Cut Pro for further editing
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