How to Work With Sony a68 Media (XAVC S) in Final Cut Pro 7 Smoothly

Sony has unveiled a new A-mount camera, the Sony a68. The camera features Sony's 4D Focus system and is compatible with A-mount lenses. It also supports full-HD video recording up to 50Mbps in XAVC S format. When you got some XAVC S footage from Sony a68, you may look for some tips regarding post workflow and then get Sony a68 XAVC S into FCP 7. Well, in the following paragraphs, we will teach you how to import, play and edit Sony a68 XAVC S in Final Cut Pro 7 flawlessly. Learn how.

The Sony a68 uses XAVC S recording format, but the problem is at present XAVC-S does not appear to be supported by Final Cut Pro 7. To edit Sony a68 XAVC S footage in FCP 7 smoothly, a suggestion is to transcode XAVC S to ProRes, which is the native supported format by FCP. And here Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac comes out to help you get the job done.

This Mac XAVC S converter can enable you to effortlessly transcode Sony a68 XAVC S files to Apple ProRes on Mac OS X(El Capitan, Yosemite included) - ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro (no matter Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7 or FCP 6). Besides, its also exports advanced encoders like Apple Intermediate Codec, MPEG-2, DNxHD, etc. allowing you to convert video to seamlessly fit iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, etc. Download the program and check out the easy steps to convert and import Sony a68 XAVC S to Final Cut Pro for editing without any troubles.

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Converting Sony a68 XAVC S for Editing in FCP 7

Step 1: Import XAVC S videos

Install and run the XAVC S to ProRes Converter on your Mac, then run it. Click on "Add", and browse your files; select all the XAVC S files you wanna convert. If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to FCP, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.

Step 2: Choose ProRes as output format

Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro > Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format.

Tips: Adjust video, audio settings

Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and mroe. Usually 1920*1080 video size and 30fps video frame rate are recommended for FCP editing.

Step 3: Start XAVC S to ProRes conversion

After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the XAVC S video to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing Sony a68 XAVC S in Final Cut Pro 7 with light speed.