Sony HXR-MC2000U (MC2000E for PAL), is a professional, shoulder mount AVCHD camcorder, which is the go-to solution when you're ready to leave tape behind and step up to a file-based video workflow. With premium design characteristics and full-raster high-definition 1080i recording capability, the HXR-MC2000U is ideal for weddings, corporate communications, colleges, universities, sporting events and working videographers on a budget.
When you got the 1080i AVCHD recordings, you would be satisfied with the high quality, but really frustrated when you find that AVCHD format doesn’t excel in the compatibility with some non-linear video edit programs including the Final Cut Pro. So, it will be hard work for you to transfer Sony HXR-MC2000E/U AVCHD to FCP 7 to make a home movie.
After some researches on the AVCHD footages to FCP importing issues, we found that the Log & Transfer can do the AVCHD to Apple ProRes422 LT conversion work for you as a background converter; while, most users are not pleased with the ProRes LT codec, which means loss of quality, let alone sometimes FCP cannot successfully ingest the AVCHD .mts videos. In that case, what we need is a great converting tool which is professionalized in transcoding AVCHD to ProRes 422 for FCP 7 , editing with least quality loss.
You can get the AVCHD to FCP Converter to make the AVCHD to FCP 7 transcoding task without quality loss, which offers you particular profiles for Final Cut Pro including ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) and ProRes 4444. Step-by-step conversion guide is list as below.
Step 1: Run the top MTS Converter for Mac OS X, and click the "Add" button to download .mts files from your camcorder to the application.
Step 2: Click the "Format" option, and tap the Final Cut Pro > “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” or “Apple ProRes 422 HQ (*.mov)”, which can bring you best quality video.
Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters in Profile Setting via clicking Settings on the main interface. 1920*1080 video size, 30fps video bitrate (or 25fps for 50i shootings) and pcm-s16le audio codec are the favorable settings.
Step 4: Finally start the AVCHD .mts to Prores 422 conversion on Mac OS X with this professional Mac AVCHD to FCP Converter.
When the conversion process shows in 100%, you can get the resulted videos from output folder easily. Now, import Sony HXR-MC2000 AVCHD to FCP 7 for editing without quality loss.
Tips:
1. This MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac doesn’t only convert Sony AVCHD to ProRes at fast speed, but also support AVCHD to iMovie, FCE, Avid, Adobe Premiere Mac conversion.
2. This Mac AVCHD converter to merge and deinterlace 1080 60i/50i AVCHD mts/m2ts files to Final Cut Pro on Mac. Get more info from Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac.
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