Nikon MOV to ProRes-Converting & Importing Nikon D5100 MOV to Final Cut Pro 7

Summary: Meet the problem when transferring movies from Nikon D5100 to FCP 7? Here is the step-by-step guide for you to convert and import Nikon D5100 HD MOV files to Final Cut Pro on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion. Just follow it.

As one of the hottest DSLRs in the market, the Nikon D5100 is great for us to take high quality images and record vivid full HD videos. If you have got the D5100 and often use it to record full HD video in H.264 MOV format, you may have the need to import Nikon h.264 .mov files to Final Cut Pro on Mac, but FCP best native supported video format is Apple ProRes 422 codec MOV format, so FCP doesn't support Nikon D5100 MOV footages well, you may encountered many problems, like import it slowly, and couldn't edit videos smoothly.

So, how to import Nikon D5100 video into Final Cut Pro 7 for editing without crashing problem and avoid rendering? The best method to solve these problems is to convert D5100 MOV footage to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro 7. If you’re looking for a solution for the problem likewise, check out Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, a top Mac Nikon h.264 MOV Converter. It supports transcoding all Nikon 1080p MOV files to Apple ProRes 422 so that you can easily import the Nikon h.264 recordings to Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Pro 7 for editing on Mac(Lion, Mountain Lion included). This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time. Below is a brief guide for you.

Convert/Import Nikon D5100 videos to Final Cut Pro 7 for smoothly editing on Mac

1. Free Download and run the best Nikon MOV to FCP Converter and drag Nikon MOV files to the software.

Tip: If you have multiple MOV files, you can select the “Merge into one” box to join your MOV files into one single file.

2. Click format bar to choose output format for use in FCP 7. Click and choose Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov).

Tip: Before start the conversion, you can:
a. Settings- click to set video resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate（from 1Mbps to 20Mbps）, frame rate (24p/30p)

b. Editor (next to “Add” icon)- click to set deinterlace, trim, crop, add watermark, etc.

3. Click convert button in the main interface to start transcoding Nikon H.264 MOV to FCP ProRes.

After the conversion, you can easily transfer and edit Nikon D5100 h.264 .mov files in Final Cut Pro 6/7 or FCP X smoothly.

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