Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Ho do I import Nikon Coolpix to FCPX for editing on Mac

Importing a file .mov from a Nikon Coolpix into FCP?
"I would like to import in iMovie files finishing with .mov produced with my Nikon Coolpix 5400 to complete films. I trailed several ways but impossible. I came to the conclusion that I should us an other application to convert in the appropriate format (which format ?).
May be QuickTime Pro is the application that I should us ? Tks for your help." from discussions apple
The Nikon Coolpix series mainly records HD H264format which is not supported by FCP(X), and the H264 format are some small different for different Nikon camcorders. I.e. Coolpix L120 record MP4 format (AVC, H.264 encode), Coolpix P500 record MOV (iFrame/h.264) format (AVC, H.264 encode), Coolpix L24 record AVI format (MJPEG Motion), Coolpix S9100 record MP4 format (AVC H.264 encode), Nikon D3100 recording MP4 format (AVC, H.264 encode, the same with Coolpix L120) . You can check the Nikon Models on the last of this article.
H.264 is not supported by FCP(X) and the files needs to be converted, hereNikon Coolpix to FCP Converter for Macis strongly recommended for you to convert Nikon Coolpix H264 to FCP(X) formats then you can edit Nikon HD MP4, MOV, AVI files on FCP(X) easily.
Plus, as a powerful Mac Nikon Coolpix Video Converter it also support convert Nikon Coolpix files to iMovie, iDVD, FCE for editing and convert to QuickTime, iTunes for playing.
Easy Guide to show you how to convert Nikon camcorder HD videos to Mac FCP, iMovie, YouTube formats.
Step 1: Add Nikon Coolpix HD files
Click the "Add File" button to add the Nikon camcorder HD files you want from your Mac hard disc. You can add more than one.
add nikon mov file to converter
Step 2: Set Output Video Format for FCP
Click "Profile" to open the Profile drop-up list to select:
QuickTime formats
hd to idvd
Step 3: Convert Nikon Coolpix Video to FCP(X).
Click "Start" button to convert Nikon Coolpix files to FCPX. After conversion finished, you can import and edit the converted files with FCPX, FCE, iDVD etc as you like.

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