Tricks for copying/editing Canon 5D Mark III shootings in FCP on Mac

I am a Canon EOS Camcorders lover, the EOS 5D Mark III is my favourite. It was released in March 2012. It is a full-frame 22.3-megapixel DSLR with 61-point autofocus and 6 fps continuous shooting. Capture high-quality Full HD movies, with manual control over everything from frame rate to audio. I think many professionals or other peoples also want to buy it with its perfect features. But I will bothered by one problem. When I want to ingest Canon EOS 5D Mark III recordings to FCP for editing on my Mac computer, I will hit a snag in the form of a "contains unsupported media... invalid directory" error. Are you so?

From Google searching, I found if we attempt to import 5D Mark III shootings to FCP by Log and Transfer, we have to back up the ENTIRE CARD STRUCTURE from the beginning. Thus it will waste us a long time. How to copy EOS 5D Mark III H.264 MOV files to FCP under Mac with an easy way? Here, I will share the best guide via a third Mac MOV Covnerter for FCP with you.

Guide: Tips and Tricks for putting and transcoding Canon EOS 5D Mark III footages to FCP for editing under Mac OS X.

Step 1: Connect your Canon EOS 5D Mark III to your Apple with USB2.0. Install and run the best MOV to FCP Converter for Mac and then click the adding button to import your H.264 MOV files.
Tip: If you have multiple MOV files, you can select the “Merge into one” box to merge the MOV files into one single file for FCP so that you can play these files without interruption.

Step 2: Click on the “Format” and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to “Final Cut Pro”. Here we recommend the Apple PreRes 422(HQ) for you. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best quality for editing in Final Cut Pro. If you want to have a smaller file size but keep the good quality, you can change the video size to 1440*1080.



Step 4: Click the “Convert” button; it will convert Canon EOS 5D Mark III H.264 MOV to Apple ProRes for FCP on Mac immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.



When the Canon 5D Mark III 1080p MOV to Apple ProRes for FCP conversion process is 100% completed, you will be able to get the output files for Final Cut Pro by clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now you can easily transfer and edit Canon EOS 5D Mark III recordings in Final Cut Pro with high quality without any trouble.