How to import iPad Video into Final Cut Pro for further editing

Everyone who deals in video formatting/editing, Final Cut Pro is almost a must-have thing. It eliminates the need of clicking, selecting different options, and can skip menu bars and tab to ensure a smooth editing with Final Cut Pro. While, Final Cut Pro can't support all the video files. You may find it's hard to import and edit iPad video in Final Cut Pro- running slowly, not rendering... In this article, we'd like to give you some tips and tricks to solve the issue.

If you are familiar with iPad captured video, you will know iPad video format is: H.264, 1920x1080, FPS 29.95 generally. The point here is H.264 isn't designed to work natively with FCP. To work iPad videos with Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7 smoothly, a good suggestion is to convert iPad H.264 files to ProRes prior to importing them into an FCP project.

Now the problem comes out? What's the best way to convert iPad files for Final Cut Pro? Which software should you use? Well, here we highly recommend Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, a professional video converting tool running on Mac OS X including El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks.

Overall, the program is a professional yet decent Mac Video Converter. It lets you transcode iPad H.264 recordings to native codecs like Apple ProRes, Apple Intermediate Codec and DNxHD which ensure the best results for editing with your video editing software like Final Cut Pro (X/7), iMovie, Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, etc. Plus, it comes with all regular video editing tools like Trim, Crop, Effect, Subtitle, Watermark. Below are the steps to convert iPad video to ProRes for FCP on Mac.

Read More: Import iPhone Video to FCP

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Convert iPad video for editing in Final Cut Pro

Step 1: Add iPad captured videos

Launch the H.264 to ProRes converter. Click "add video" button to import the iPad H.264 files. You can also directly drag and drop the video to the app.

Step 2: Select output format

This video converter offers optimized format presets for Final Cut Pro, "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)", "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 HQ (*.mov)", etc. Choose a one you need.

Tips: If the default settings do not fit your needs, you can click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters as you like.

Step 3: Start conversion

Click "Convert" button and the selected iPad videos will be converted to Apple ProRes files instantly.

You may check the converting progress and set auto shutdown in the conversion window. After conversion, click "Open" folder to find converted footage for importing to FCP 7 or Final Cut Pro X.

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