Not long ago, I got a camcorder-Canon Vixia HF S100, it's an excellent camcorder which gives me high quality videos. I like easy editing Canon Vixia HF S100 recorded videos with Final Cut Pro for family movies like interesting events, cats, building a snowman and so on. But the first time when I want to import AVCHD videos to Final Cut Pro for editing, I encountered some problems, I can't import Canon Vixia HF S100 AVCHD to Final Cut Pro. One of my friends told me FCP doesn't support Canon HF S100 AVCHD well. Finally I found Pavtube Video Converter for Mac which is the best Canon AVCHD files Transcode to transcode Canon HF S100 AVCHD Videos to Apple ProRes 422 perfectly compatible with FCP.
If you have the same problem about editing Canon HF S100 AVCHD Videos in Final Cut Pro, you may follow the step-by-step guide.
Just connect Canon HF S100 to iMac with USB cable, and copy the files to hard drive. Run Pavtube Canon AVCHD Video Converter for Mac as the best Canon AVCHD to FCP Converter, and click the "Add" button to load 1920×1080 .mts videos.
Step 2. Choose the best output video format for editing in FCP.
Clock the format column and choose the Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov). It's the best video format for FCP.
Step 3. If you want to adjust the output videos' parameters, you can click settings button to change the Size, the Bitrate, and the Codec for getting the perfect effects.
Step 4. If you want to edit the video before convert Canon HF S100 AVCHD to FCP MOV format, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac offers easy but useful edit function as shows below.
You can click "Edit" button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.
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Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac can convert 1080p cameras/camcorders footages to editable HD video formats for non-linear editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, Avid, Adobe Premiere etc. The HD footage can be compressed to SD video clips for storage when you wanna save storage space.