AVCHD transfer to Final Cut Pro- Import Sony A57/A65/A77 60p MTS to FCP

Summary: Facing the trouble when importing and editing Sony A57/A65/A77 60p AVCHD footage in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X? Get the best Mac MTS to ProRes Converter to achieve your goal smoothly. Below is how.

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More and more AVCHD cameras and camcorders are supporting 1080 50/60p Recording, but more and more users are facing the incompatible troubles with NLE systems like Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more in 50/60p AVCHD. The reason that you can’t successfully ingest those recorded AVCHD footages on 1080 60P/50P format to Final Cut Pro is limited by the FCP itself. If you have got the one of Sony Alpha SLT-A35, A37, A55, A57, A65, A77, A99 AVCHD cameras, you will still want to get a way import the recorded

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1080 60p footages into FCP 6/7/X for further editing on your Mac OS X. Any possible solution?

In order to import Sony A57/A65/A77 60p AVCHD footage into FCP for smoothly editing, you can use 3rd-party software to re-wrap and convert 60p/50p MTS to Apple ProRes encoded mov format first, which is a native format for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X. It’s a great way to achieve your goal smoothly. For this purpose, this article will show you how to convert Sony A57/A65/A77/A99 AVCHD Footage to ProRes MOV step by step.

Transcoding Sony A57/A65/A77 60p AVCHD to Apple ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X

The most easy and quick workaround is to use the easy-to-use yet professional app called Brorosft

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MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac which can be used as a Sony AVCHD MTS Converter under OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.. It is free, clean and safe to install and use. With it, you can effortlessly transcode MTS to ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, and it works well and converts flawlessly. Below is the tutorial for you.

Step 1. Use a card reader to copy and transfer the .mts files to iMac hard drive disk, run

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Mac Sony MTS Converter as the fast Mac MTS to ProRes Converter, and click the “Add” button to load the .mts videos. You can also simply drag and drop the 1080p .mts files to the software.

Tip: If you are also a FCP X user, before you try to do the conversion, don’t forget to make sure that you have installed the

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support.apple.com/kb/DL1396]Apple ProRes Codec manually since the FCP X asks users to install it by themselves.

Step 2. Press “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to choose “Format > Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as the best codec for FCP 6/7 and FCP X on Mac.

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Step 3. You can click “settings” button in the main interface to customize the output video’s parameters, such as resolution, frame rate, etc. 1920* 1080 video size and 30fps(or 25fps for PAL) frame rate are highly recommended in usual.

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Step 4. You can edit the MTS video before transcoding Sony A77, A57, A65 MTS to ProRes MOV.

By clicking “Edit” button, you can trim, crop the video, or add watermark and adjust effect to the videos which you will convert.

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Trim – Choose to reserve the part you need. Just choose the chapter which you need to trim, to set “start time” or “end time”, type the portion which you want to save.

Crop – Remove black edges of your video or just get the scale of this video you want.

Effect – Adjust the effects by adjusting the parameters, such as:

1) Deinterlacing – If there are some stripes on the picture, you can check this option to make a better picture effect. (Checked by default)

2) If you want to get 3D effect, just enable this function and do settings.

Step 5. Click the “Convert” icon under the preview window, and the Mac MTS to ProRes Converter will start transcode A57/A65/A77 1080p 50p/60p MTS to Prores MOV for FCP(X) on Mac.

After the conversion, click the “Open” button to locate converted files, then load ProRes .MOV files in FCP (X). Now you can successfully and easily import Sony 1080 60p/50p MTS footage to FCP 6/7 or FCP X for editing with best quality.

P.S. If you want to

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edit Sony Alpha Camera videos in iMovie, you just need to choose the “iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)" in the second step.

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