The Lumix DMC-FZ200 is Panasonic's flagship super-zoom digital camera. It comes with the highlight features like 24x 25-600mm equivalent lens with F2.8 across the zoom range, 12.1-megapixel High Sensitivity MOS sensor, 12 fps continuous shooting, 1080 60p video recording in AVCHD or MP4 formats and more to meet the users’ diverse demands.

With the Panasonic DMC-FZ200, the users can easily get full HD videos as they want; while something is preventing the users from playing and editing 1080p60 AVCHD clips from FZ200 on Mac. They cannot get anything on Mac to read the AVCHD files with .mts extention, including AE, QT, iMovie as well as FCP. Here we’d like to share the Panasonic 1080p60 AVCHD to FCP import help. If you are facing the problem, go through the page.

Final Cut Pro best supported video format is Apple ProRes codec MOV format, so the best method to solve Panasonic DMC-FZ200 AVCHD and FCP incompatible problem is to convert the DMC-FZ200 1080/60P AVCHD footage to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro. AVCHD to ProRes Converter is an easy-to-use tool for you. It can help you convert AVCHD 60P files to ProRes 422 MOV format with 30p frame rate for easy editing in Final Cut Pro.

Guide: Get Panasonic DMC-FZ200 1080p AVCHD files to FCP import help on Mac

Step 1: Install and launch this MTS Converter for Mac. Import your Lumix DMC-FZ200 footages to the application. Merge several AVCHD clips by ticking “Merge into one” box.

Step 2: Click "Format" bar to choose the output format. Click and choose "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as Final Cut Pro compatible format for editing in FCP smoothly.

Step 3: You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want. Set video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps is better.

Step 4: Click convert button to start transcoding 108060p AVCHD .MTS to ProRes for FCP on Mac OS X.

After the conversion, you can click “open” to find the output file, then you can import Panasonic DMC-FZ200 AVCHD files to FCP for editing without rendering or any other troubles.

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