How to Convert MTS to Final Cut Pro on Mac

 

Get a lot of video clips from your HD camcorder and want to edit your own family movie with the Final Cut Pro? This article is aiming to help you to import MTS to Final Cut Pro in an easy way.

 

MTS (MPEG transport stream) is also known as AVCHD. It's commonly found in HD camcorders like Sony, Panasonic, and Canon. Final Cut Pro, as one of the most wonderful video splitter, is widely used by both home-made and professional movie. According to the Tech Spec of Final Cut Pro on Apple official website, we know that FCP supports a lot of video formats. However, when you import some MTS video to Final Cut Pro, it seem that FCP doesn't work well with it while others is not.

 

One solution is converting MTS videos to Final Cut Pro compatible formats like MP4 and MOV. To retain the output clips quality, maybe HD MP4 or HD MOV is a good choice.

 

To convert MTS to Final Cut Pro in an easy way, you need Video Converter for Mac. This video tool also can play a role of video editor in trimming par, cropping video screen, adjust video effect and adding watermark.

How to convert MTS to Final Cut Pro on Mac step-by-step?

Here we go the Mac version as an example. If you want to convert on Windows OS, you can follow steps of Video Converter guide.

 

Step 1 Run the app directly.

Download and run the DMG files directly, then copy the app to the folder you want.

Step 2 Load the MTS files to prepare the MTS to Final Cut Pro conversion

Two ways can be chosen to import the MTS files:

1 Drag and drop the files to the converter.

2 Follow the way as the image; Menu > File > Import > Add Video Files.

Step3 Choose Final Cut Pro as the output format

Click "output setting" icon and choose "Final Cut Pro (MP4 format for Final Cut Pro X)" as the output format. If you want to convert MTS to HD MP4 or HD MOV, you can find them under the list of HD Movie.

Step 4 Start the MTS to FCP conversion

Click the "Start" button to start the conversion, wait for several seconds and then you can get the most personal MOV video.

Tips for converting MTS to Final Cut Pro on Mac:

1 This is a version for Mac OS X 10.5 or above (Lion included).

2 You can get the estimated size of the output files on the main interface after setting the output format.

 

Try to convert MTS to Final Cut Pro now or get more info of the Video Converter for Mac:

 

 

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