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Monday, September 21, 2015

How to import flash SWF file to Final Cut Pro for editing

A step by step tutorial on how to convert SWF to Final Cut Pro edit-friendly formats for further editing.


Final Cut Pro is the ultimate MAC video editor, which has gained the favor of many professional users including Hollywood films makers. But it only takes QuickTime and iMovie compatible video formats such as QuickTime MOV, QuickTime MP4, DV, HDV MPEG, ProRes,etc. Unfortunately, SWF is not included in the above list. So if you happen to have bunch of videos that are in .swf format and want to edit those swf clips in Final Cut Pro. The quick workaround is to convert SWF to Final Cut Pro more acceptable format such as ProRes codec, which the most optimized editing format for Final Cut Pro.