Full HD AVCHD video recording with high-resolution 10.6-megapixel still photo capture, the Panasonic AG-HMC40 brings you the benefits of two professional cameras in one affordable package. How to make full use of these full HD video recordings? Most of the users would like to edit Panasonic AG-HMC40 AVCHD with Final Cut Pro to make a home movie to share with their families and friends.

While, the users would get frustrated when import Panasonic AG-HMC40 AVCHD to FCP for further editing. The trouble is mainly caused by the incompatible video codec AVCHD for Final Cut Pro. Some users have found the solution Log & Transfer that can import and transcode AVCHD to ProRes, but there exits some limits. First, you’d make sure software version is FCP 6.0.6 or later. Secondly, you’d make sure the MTS files to be in the AVCHD structure. If not, you can't use Log and Transfer. So, how to solve the problem in an easy way? Here we’d like to offer you the easy solution.

First, you can go to download and install the AVCHD to ProRes Converter on your Mac. This top Mac AVCHD converter enables you to transcode Panasonic AG-HMC40 AVCHD to FCP more friendly format Apple ProRes formats including ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) and ProRes 4444 that are all compatible with Final Cut Pro.

STEP 1: Launch the AVCHD to Final Cut Pro Converter and load the MTS/M2TS files to it.
Tip: If you wanna join MTS/M2TS files for Final Cut Express, please check the "Merge into one" box.

STEP 2: Click on Format, and from the dropdown menu, we recommend Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) (.*mov) as the output format for FCP. Then you can set the output folder as you want.

STEP 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 for editing AG-HMC40 AVCHD in FCP with best quality.

STEP 4: Start to convert Panasonic AG-HMC40 MTS to ProRes for FCP on Mac OS X via clicking the “Convert” icon.

When the AVCHD to Apple ProRes codec transcoding process is completed, you can get the converted .mov files to FCP for editing on Mac OS X without any problem.

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