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Transcode and Import Canon XH-A1 1080i footage to Final Cut Pro X/7/6

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The Canon XH-A1 is an extension of the XL-H1 HDV camcorder. It utilizes the highly efficient HDV compression format that allows over an hour of high definition recording on a single miniDV tape! You may get a lot of HDV footage files shot by Canon XH-A1. While, if you edit these HDV videos with Final Cut Pro in Mac, you'll often run into troubles like import error, poor color or quality. Actually, HDV is not an ideal format for editing purpose. Instead, raw clips like Apple ProRes 422 perform much better. In this article, you can learn how to import Canon XH-A1 1080i footage to FCP for editing smoothly.

In order to keep the video quality as well as finish the Canon HDV to Final Cut Pro conversion task as quickly as possible, a Mac video converting app - Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is in use. With it, you also can easily transfer all popular formats like HDV, MP4, H.264, MXF, MTS, AVCHD, VOB, MPG, etc. to Apple ProRes 422, ProRes 4444 in Mac with a few clicks. Below is the step by step guide.

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Convert Canon XH-A1 HDV footage for Final Cut Pro

Step 1: Load HDV files to the software

Add Canon HDV videos to the program. Launch this Canon HDV Converter. Import XH-A1 footage to the converter. You can join several video clips together by checking the "Merge into one file" box.

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Step 2: Select output format

Click on "Format" bar set an Apple ProRes format. You are advised to "Follow Final Cut Pro" template and choose "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)". If you prefer smaller file size, choose "Apple ProRes 422 (LT) (*.mov)" instead.

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Tip: If you are a FCP 6 or former version user, you only can choose ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 HQ as the output format.

Step 3: Choose proper parameters in Settings

Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/ audio parameters if necessary. E.g. Set video size to 1920*1080 or set smaller bitrate to further cut down export file size. You may skip this step as well.

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Step 4: Start converting Canon HDV to ProRes codec

Click "Convert" to start transcoding HDV to Apple ProRes 422 codec for Final Cut Pro. The conversion process may take long time but it will not bother to render in FCP.

After conversion just click the "Open" button to locate converted Canon XH-A1 footage for FCP post-production.

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