iChat - Transfer Sony A65 1080 60p MTS videos to Final Cut Pro 6/7 vivian78 - Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:10 pm Post subject: Transfer Sony A65 1080 60p MTS videos to Final Cut Pro 6/7
Transfer Sony A65 1080 60p MTS videos to Final Cut Pro 6/7 for editing
Q1: Support for Sony 60p AVCHD from A65 to FCP X?
How do import the 1080p AVCHD files to Final Cut Pro? This is the latests and greatests software right? There must be a way. Help Please
Q2: Importing Sony A65 footages into FCP 6
…I have used Sony A65 camera captured lots of HD videos at 1080 60p. but I'm still working on an Apple G5 with FCP 6.0.6. Is there an application, plug-in, etc. for the older FCP to take in 60p AVCHD files? [G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)]
Q3: Will Final Cut Pro 7 fully support Sony A65's 60fps/1080p shooting mode for import?
Well, don't blame to the Final Cut Pro, the "Import from Camera…" option works just like "Log and Transfer". The thing is, even with the lastest update of FCP X, we have not seen the expected support for 50/60p AVCHD MTS. To import/load Sony A65 1080 60p AVCHD videos into Final Cut Pro 6/7 or FCP X for editing smoothly, the best method is to transcode Sony A65 1080 60p AVCHD to Final Cut Pro native formats (e.g. Apple ProRes 422 encoded .mov format) along with some help from the third party software. To help those who wanna edit Sony 60p AVCHD footages in Final Cut Pro on Mac, here I will throw this quick guide up on how to convert the Sony AVCHD to Apple ProRes then log and transfer the encoded 1080p 60p AVCHD files into FCP for editing smoothly.
First, the most important piece of the equation is that you have a Sony AVCHD Converter for FCP hooked to your Mac. If not, I recommend you Pavtube's HD Video for Mac. It supports encoding all Sony 1080p 50/60P AVCHD MTS files to Apple ProRes 422 so that you can easily import the Sony Camcorder recordings to Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Pro 7 for editing on Mac. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time.
Step 2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as output format.
Here we recommend the Apple ProRes 422. In the settings you will find Pavtube allows you to keep the original frame rate 50/60fbps in the final ProRes files.
