Sony RX10 III is able to capture video recordings in a range of resolutions up to UHD 4K 30fps as well as high-speed recording in Full HD 1080p at 120 fps. Both 4K and Full HD recording is possible in the 100 Mbps XAVC S format, which is contained within an MP4 wrapper, with 4:2:0 color sampling when recording internally, or 4:2:2 sampling with the use of an optional external recorder via HDMI output.
As a user of Sony RX10 III, you must be excited that Sony RX10 III can record videos up to 4K and maybe eager to edit the 4K XAVC S in Final Cut Pro to get some superb masterpiece. While the result might lets you down: screen freezes, program crashes, no audio, error messgaes pop up, etc. In fact, the complicated codec XAVC S(in an MPEG-4 wrapper) did not work with FCP X 10.0.9 and its older version. Until FCP X 10.1 and Mavericks, Sony's XAVC S was impossible to deal with FCP on Mac OS X. In addition, handling with 4K videos is always extreme hardware intensive. On this case, in order to ensure a smooth workflow of importing and editing Sony RX10 III XAVC S files in FCP X/7, you'd better convert XAVC S to ProRes MOV, the best codecs with best results when working with Final Cut Pro in proper setting.
Brorsoft XAVC S Video Converter for Mac, a reliable application with customers around the world can be your ideal solution to solve RX10 III 4K XAVC S Video transcoding and file compression problems. You can not only use the program to directly encode Sony RX10 III XAVC S to Final Cut Pro optimized Apple Prores formats, but also downscale the 4K video to 1080p for high quality and high performance editing in FCP 7/X or its former version.
Download XAVC S to FCP Converter:
(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)Tutorial on converting Sony RX10 III XAVC S to Final Cut Pro X/7 in simple steps
1. Launch the XAVC S to ProRes Converter; click “Add Videos” icon to load your source XAVC S videos from Sony RX10 III for converting. It supports batch conversion.
2. Click “Format” bar and choose “Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as output format for editing XAVC S in FCP with natively supported video codec.
3. Compress 4K video to 1080p. On the main interface, click "Settings" to open "Profile Settings" window, from "Size(pix)" drop-down selection, choose "1920*1080" to downscale 4K video to 1080p for editing with Final Cut Pro 7/X or its previous version.
4. After all necessary settings, click the convert button; it will start converting Sony RX10 III XAVC S to ProRes .mov for importing to Final Cut Pro immediately.
After the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for natively editing in FCP 7 as well as FCP X without hassle.
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