How to transfer Camcorder video to Final Cut Pro for editing?

Transfer Camcorder to Mac

Shoot some excellent videos with your Camcorder, unfortunately cannot transfer them to your Mac, iMoive, Final Cut, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro for editing? Final Cut Pro can’t recognize .mod, .tod, avchd (.mts, .m2ts), mpeg-2 files, in this stage you should change the video files into iMovie compatible formats: MOV, MPEG-4.

How to transfer Camcorder video to Mac iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro for editing?

Step 1: Transfer Camcorder video to Mac.
Plug your camcorder into the AC adaptor, and connect USB plug to your Mac. A new drive will appear. Open it. Copy the contents of the SD or HD Video folder onto your Mac.

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Step 2: Download and install Camcorder video transfer for Mac

iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac can be used as Camcorder video transfer. Launch it, and import your camcorder footage to the program.

Free Download: Intel Version, PowerPC Version

Launch it, and import your camcorder footage to the program.

Camcorder Converter for Mac

Step 3:  Edit Camcorder video files

Click “Trim” button to open the trim dialog box

trim

set the start time and end time by dragging the start time and End Time slider to convert a clip, here you can set the time according to your require. After you set the start time and end time, you can click”OK” to finish the trim work. Futuremore, you can press”cancel” button to end the trim work.

Crop movie video black edges with Video Editor for Mac

convert part of the video area from your camcorder video file or remove the black edges

Click ”crop” button, you shall get the crop window just like below:

crop flv on mac

Step 4: Change Camcorder video to MOV, MPEG-4 format.
Define the desired video format and location from the format and output list, then press Convert button  convert flv to avi mac to start converting camcorder video to MOV, MPEG-4.

converting camcorder video to MOV

Step 5: Transfer the converted Camcorder video MP4 and MOV to Final Cut Pro.

converting camcorder video to MOV

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