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Friday, February 26, 2016

Enable Dxtory AVI recordings work with Final Cut Pro 6/7/X beautifully

Summary: Facing problems when importing a Dxtory AVI file to Final Cut Pro for editing? You can easily fix the problem by transcoding Dxtory AVI to Final Cut Pro editing-friendly format like ProRes. Here is the simple how-to.

I am recording a playing game with DXTory and I feel no lag at all when recording from the game. The videos are saved as .avi and play fine in VLC. But when I’m trying to get DXTory AVI to Final Cut Pro for further editing, it seems to crash FCP almost every time! I tried to include as much info as I can and finally got some clues.

Actually, Dxtory is fine for capture videos with AVI file extension, but it has always been a problematic format to edit on NLEs. In other words, the Dxtory AVI videos are not ideal for editing in Final Cut Pro (FCP X included). To fix the problem, I have googled the Dxtory AVI to Final Cut Pro issues online, the universal suggestions of these guys from related forums is to convert Dxtory AVI to Apple's ProRes.mov, which ensures the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with FCP 6/7/X.

In order to finish this task, a friend of mine recommended a professional video converter called Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac to me, which turned out to be a great choice. It's easy to use yet features with high quality and amazing function. Applying it, there's no need to set the codec by yourself: the program has different optimized ProRes presets for FCP. Besides Dxtory AVI videos, the fabulous video converter grants you transcode virtually any video formats including MP4, MKV, MOV, MXF, MTS, etc to Final Cut Pro as well as Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, iMovie and more editing software with fast encoding speed while keeping excellent video quality. Below is how to do it.



How to Convert Dxtory AVI for Editing in Final Cut Pro X/7/6

Step 1. Add Dxtory AVI files

Run the best Dxtory AVI to Final Cut Pro Converter, and click the "Add" button to load .avi videos. If you want to merge multiple clips just need to check the "Merge into one" box.



Step 2. Choose ProRes as output format

Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format.



Tip: Video/Audio quality settings

Adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in the Profile Settings.

Step 3. Start conversion

Click "Convert" button to finish the Dxtory AVI to ProRes for Final Cut Pro conversion.

Once the conversion completes, you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly. Now you have got it right, just to import and edit Dxtory AVI files with FCP X/7/6 flawlessly.

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