Import AVCHD video to Final Cut Pro

"I have a Sony HXR-NX5P, it records video in AVCHD format and I'm trying to import the videos into Final Cut Pro using what I believe to be the correct settings and procedures but I'm having no joy.

I've followed all the forums that I've stumbled across as concisely as I can but I'm getting nowhere, ultimately I get the message when I get to the final stage:"FOLDER" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media". Any help would be HUGELY appreciated!"

Final Cut Pro is a good program for editing videos on Mac, it works perfectly with some camcorders that shoot videos in AVCHD format. But not all kinds of AVCHD camcorder can be supported. AVCHD videos from some camcorders like Sony HXR-NX5P can't be imported into Final Cut Pro directly.

Therefore, to import AVCHD video to Final Cut Pro, you need to convert AVCHD video to Final Cut Pro compatible MOV or MP4 files. Don't worry, this can be easily realized using a program named AVCHD to Final Cut Pro Converter.

AVCHD to Final Cut Pro Converter is specailly designed for Mac users to convert AVCHD videos from Sony, Canon, Panasonic or JVC camcorders to popular video formats such as MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, MPG, FLV, 3GP, ASF, VOB, MKV, RM, RMVB etc for editing in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro or playing on portable devices etc.

Step by step to convert AVCHD to Final Cut Pro

Step 1: Import AVCHD files

Click "+" button to browse your target folder and load them together. AVCHD to FCP converter Mac also support drag-n-drop & batch mode feature.

Tips: This program provides a media browser to help you manage local video, audio and downloads.

Step 2: Choose FCP as the output format

To ensure the best quality, AVCHD to Final CUt Pro Converter provides other options besides common video output.

1. Configured presets for FCP, standard definition.

2. Native codecs like ProRes, Apple Intermediate Codec for FCP to ensure the best result when editing in FCP.

Furthermore, provided that you want to compress the file a little, you can also click the gear icon to manually adjust the bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.

Step 3: Convert AVCHD to FCP

After choosing the right output format, now just hit the "Convert" button on the bottom right to kick off AVCHD to Final Cut Pro conversion. During the conversion, you'll see a neat designed bar to show the percentage and remaining time.

When all conversions finished, just click "Open Output" in the pop-up window to find the converted files. Now you may go ahead to show your creativeness on editing AVCHD with Final Cut Pro at ease.