How to Convert and Import WMV to Final Cut Pro for further Editing

Summary: This guide will show you how to effortlessly convert WMV to Final Cut Pro supported video formats on Mac (El Capitan) so you can edit WMV files in FCP X/7/6 smoothly.

The .wmv (Windows Media Video) is the main format used in all videos processed and saved using the Windows system and its video tools such as Windows Movie Maker. Since .wmv videos are native to windows, some Mac users may inevitable to encounter problems when trying to import videos in the .wmv format for editing in Apple's Final Cut Pro.

"I've got hours and hours of video clips and they come in WMV format. I want to put these WMV file to FCP 7 for editing but FCP 7 isn't letting me do that, saying something about they can't be imported. I don't know what to do. Can you help me! Thanks in advanced!"

"I have tried a couple of different conversion programs to convert a .wmv file to .mov or .mp4, and all seem to result in a viewable mp4, but when I import into FCP and try to put the footage into my sequence, it won't render. The sound renders, but the video remains 'unrendered'. Does anyone know why this is happening and how can I import WMV to FCP X?"

As far as I know, Final Cut Pro (FCP X included) does not natively support WMV import on the Mac. To import WMV files to Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X, more than one suggest to download and install Flip4Mac. You should give a try! If you've installed Flip4Mac Pro but still can't import, there is another way to to easily solve your problem. You can convert WMV to other Final Cut Pro friendly movie format like Apple's ProRes, which ensures the maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro X/7/6.

Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. What's need is a just a common video converter like Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. This program features high efficiency and seamless conversion. With it, you can do batch conversion from WMV, AVI, MTS, MP4, and more to Final Cut Pro highly compatible video formats on Mac OS X (El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks and Mountain Lion included). Plus, it's very easy to use and the process is straightforward. Just download it and follow the step-by-step guide to convert and import WMV files to Final Cut Pro on Mac without any trouble.

Free download the Mac WMV to Final Cut Pro Converter trial version:

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Transcoding WMV to ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro X

First, Launch the Mac ProRes Conversion program; click "Add" button from main menu to browse your computer hard drive and select the files you want to convert. Or you can easily drag-and-drop files into this application for converting.



Tip: You can check the "Merge into one" box to merge several video files together for easier editing.

Secondly, Click "format" bar and choose "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as Final Cut Pro X compatible codec for editing WMV files in FCP X smoothly. ProRes 422(HQ), Pro Res 422(LT), Pro Res 444, Pro Res 422(Proxy) are all the proper choice.



Thirdly, Tap "settings" to customize the output parameters- adjust the video size, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel, etc to get a decent video for editing in Final Cut Pro.



Finally, Click the "Convert" button to start encoding WMV to ProRes MOV for FCP X right away. This conversion process will finish soon. Afterwards, click the Open button to locate the output files and import to FCP X for editing smoothly.

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How to Convert iPhone Videos for Editing in Final Cut Pro

Summary: Having trouble with iPhone Videos with Final Cut Pro X/7/6? Simply read on this tutorial to find the reason and the solution to fix.


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.

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How to Import Panasonic HC-VX870K 4K videos into Final Cut Pro 7 for editing

Summary: This is an instructive guide on how to import Panasonic HC-VX870K 4K footage to Final Cut Pro 7 for further editing.



The HC-VX870K is the first 4K Ultra HD consumer camcorder offered by Panasonic. 4K has 4 times the resolution of Full HD, and is about the same resolution as the 4K projector in your local movie theater. Chances are you have shot some 4K footage with the Panasonic HC-VX870K camera, there is big probable you may want to edit them with Final Cut Pro 7. But you'll disappointed to find FCP 7 cannot import those 4K video files. No worry, in this article, I will share a quick workaround with you to fix the annoying issue!

As a matter of fact, Final Cut Pro 7(Even FCP X) won’t deal with 4K videos instantly- have to wait for rendering or even some raw footage like 4K .MP4 from GoPro can’t be recognized. The easy workaround I have worked out is to use a third-party video app to convert 4K to ProRes for FCP 7 direct editing. Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is what most guys recommend, which a professional 4K to FCP converter app.

Unlike some free video converters, it is capable of serving as the best 4K Video Converter for Mac. It provides optimal presets such as Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes 422 (LT), Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy), and Apple ProRes 4444 for Final Cut Pro. With it, you can transcode your Panasonic HC-VX870K 4K MP4 videos to Final Cut Pro favored format quickly and easily. Plus, this 4K Video Converter is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K, 4K as users want. If you try to edit Panasonic HC-VX870K 4K footage in Final Cut Pro, chances are you have downloaded the great utility. If not, please free download it here:


(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5.8)

How to encode Panasonic HC-VX870K 4K MP4 video to ProRes .mov for use in FCP 7 smoothly?

Step 1: After launching the 4K Video Converter for Mac, click ‘Add File’ button to load your source video files from Panasonic HC-VX870K camera.



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 video 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).



Tips: If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.



Step 3: Click ‘Convert’to start HC-VX870K 4K MP4 footage to ProRes MOV conversion. When the conversion finished, check the generated ProRes video, you will certainly be satisfied with its final video quality. It would be easier for you to edit with Final Cut Pro 7 as well as FCP X, FCP 6.

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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.

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

Summary: Having problems of importing recorded videos from your iPad Air or iPad Mini to Final Cut Pro? Simply follow this tutorial to get the easiest way to fix iPad Video and FCP issues.

Nowadays, more and more people are fond of shooting videos with iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4/3/2, iPad 4/3/2. Before uploading them to YouTube or posting on Facebook, they may probable choose to take use of Final Cut Pro to make some modifications. However, when trying to import iPad captured videos into Final Cut Pro, they always encounter some troubles like the file won’t play and audio drift. Searching high and low online, I got some clues.

In fact, the codec that the iPad uses is H264 and it can’t be supported well by FCP. Even if you can drop the iPad videos to Final Cut Pro directly, some problems were always around you. To solve this dilemma, you need to take a little up front time and set up a workflow that will convert your iPad video into a more editing-friendly format, such a FCP's ProRes. To be honest, it is not hard as you image as long as you have a professional video converter like Brorsoft Video
Converter for Mac.

This program features high efficiency and seamless conversion. With it, you can transcode iPad video to Final Cut Pro compatible ProRes encoded MOV, ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7 and FCP 6. Besides, it also exports advanced encoders like Apple Intermediate Codec, DNxHD, etc. allowing you to convert video to seamlessly fit iMovie, iDVD, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, etc. If you're editing iPad Videos on Mac, chances are you already installed this great utility. If not, download it from below:



Converting iPad Video to Final Cut Pro edit-friendly format on Mac

1. Install the program on Mac and run it. Drag the iPad files to the software. Or you can also click "Add" button on the top of the main interface to import video to the program. It supports batch conversion and joining multiple video clips into one file.



2. Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format. This format is specially designed for FCP, so that you can edit your original iPhone video in Final Cut Pro perfectly.



3. Click Settings icon to modify the video, audio parameters. We suggest to keep the same size as you shot (if 1080, then 1080)... same frame rate as you shot (if 29.97, then 29.97).



4. Click the “Convert” icon under the preview window, and the Mac video converter will start transcode iPhone footage for FCP(X) on Mac.

After the conversion, click "Open" to locate the result videos and then launch Final Cut Pro, choose File > Import > Files…, and browse to where you save the converted iPhone clips to. Choose the videos that you'd like to add. Now you can start fun away with editing iPhone video footage in Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7/6 without problems.

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Summary: Want to convert your videos to ProRes for further editing in Final Cut Pro? You are right in here! Read on and you'll learned a quick workaround to complete the video to ProRes conversion.

 

In daily life, You may have handled kinds of video files, including YouTube FLV videos, Canon MXF Camcorder videos, DVD ISO videos, etc. And in order to get more wonderful videos, you probably will choose to edit those various files with Final Cut Pro. While when you importing and playing those videos with Final Cut Pro, you'll often come across troubles.

"I got the MXF videos from my stuff without original video information. It can be played well in VLC player. However when I import them to FCP X for editing, there is no audio. What’s wrong? Can you help me?"

"How do I import MTS files from my hard drive into Final Cut Pro 7? Why I only got the video after importing to FCP 7?"

In fact, as a non-linear video editing software, Final Cut Pro has gained the favor of many professional users including Hollywood films makers. but due to the wide range of video formats, there are still a huge amount of video formats are not supported by Final Cut Pro(Even the newest FCP X). In this case, a great option is to convert videos to FCP best supported format- Apple ProRes MOV, which ensuring the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with Final Cut Pro. To perform ProRes conversion seamlessly with ease, here we strongly recommend the best ProRes Converter for you.

With it, you can rewrap virtually all video format files like AVI/MKV/MXF/MOV/FLV/VOB etc to Apple ProRes.mov for FCP X/6/7 with fast encoding speed while keeping the excellent quality. Except for ProRes MOV, it also adds some other advanced encoders like Apple Intermediate Codec, MPEG-2 and DNxHD, allowing you to convert video to seamlessly fit iMovie, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, etc. Just get it and follow the steps to re-encode kinds of videos to FCP ProRes.

Guide on converting Videos to ProRes

First, Launch the Best ProRes Conversion program; click "Add" button from main menu to browse your computer hard drive and select the files you want to convert. Or you can easily drag-and-drop files into this application for converting.



Tip: You can check the "Merge into one" box to merge several video files together for easier editing.

Secondly, Click "format" bar and choose "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as Final Cut Pro compatible codec for editing AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, MP4, etc files in FCP smoothly. ProRes 422(HQ), Pro Res 422(LT), Pro Res 444, Pro Res 422(Proxy) are all the proper choice.



Thirdly, Tap "settings" to customize the output parameters- adjust the video size, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel, etc to get a decent video for editing in Final Cut Pro.



Finally, Click the "Convert" button to start encoding AVI/WMV/MKV/MOV/MP4, etc to ProRes MOV for FCP right away. This conversion process will finish soon. Afterwards, click the Open button to locate the output files and import to FCP for editing smoothly.

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How to Convert VOB to Final Cut Pro for further editing

Summary: In this article, I recommend you available ways that helps you easily convert VOB to Final Cut Pro friendly Apple ProRes.mov files with best quality & fast speed. You can easily import and edit VOB files in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X.



VOB is used to store all MPEG-2 audio and video data, which contains not only the video itself but also the menus, buttons and a variety of subtitles. It is widely used in DVDs. But since this kind of video file usually contains one or several audio tracks and subtitle tracks that are multiplexed together into one stream form, it is not so easy to playback or be edited directly on PC or Mac. Although some people have reported success renaming the VOB files to another format and then editing them in Final Cut Pro, you are likely to experience problems.

As a matter of fact, Final Cut Pro(Even the FCP X), the non-linear video editing software on Mac, doesn't support VOB files. Final Cut Pro normally can recognize a few file formats like DV, MOV, M4V, MP4 and some AVI files from cams. So chances are you have some VOB files copied from a DVD and need to import them to Final Cut Pro for editing, the easy workaround is to converting VOB to Final Cut Pro supported video formats like Apple ProRes.mov, which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro.

To fulfill task, you can try Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which can transcode VOB to Apple ProRes encoded MOV with fast converting speed and excellent output quality. Moreover, this best video converter can also help you convert VOB files to all other popular video formats like AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, FLV, MPG, etc. for playing and editing on iTunes, iPad, iMoive, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Apple TV etc to meet your diverse demands. Now just download the program and follow the tutorial below to see how to transcode VOB to ProRes for Final Cut Pro.

How to Convert VOB files for Final Cut Pro X/7/6

Step 1. Load VOB files
Install the program on Mac and run it. Drag the VOB files to the software. Or you can also click "Add" button on the top of the main interface to import video to the app.



Step 2. Select output format
Hit the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format. This format is specially designed for FCP X/7/6.



Tip: Adjust the video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video & Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.



Step 3. Start converting VOB to FCP X/7/6

Tap "Convert" button on the main interface to start VOB to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X.

You can check the conversion process in the Window. After the conversion, it is easy to import the transcoded VOB videos to Final Cut Pro X/7/6 for further editing.