If anyone has had any experience editing Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R 4K MOV format in Final Cut Pro X, I would be pleased to learn of their experience and the specs of the computer they are using. I am hopeful that editing 4K MOV footage on the new Mac Pro will be possible without the large file sizes produced by transcoding. Thanks in advance for responding.
Final Cut Pro is a good tool to edit videos on Mac, however, for the new users, it is a big problem to loading 4K MOV files from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R in FCP (including FCP 7 and FCP X), they will get some trouble for the video clips, or rather the 4K MOV clips, are not supported by FCP, such files will not be shown when importing.
Thus the post editing work would be troublesome, but I don't think it will be a problem that matters a lot. Actually, if you are just worrying about how to edit Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R 4K MOV videos in FCP, don't be panic now! Here, I will tell you in details on importing Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R to FCP to edit smoothly.
As FCP are not workable with Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R 4K MOV files natively, if you want to load Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R 4K MOV to FCP (including FCP 7 and FCP X), first you need to convert 4K MOV to FCP friendly codec like Apple Prores. of course, losslessly. To do so, you need a professional Pavtube Video Converter to help.
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How to load Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R 4K MOV videos to FCP 7/X?
Step 1: click top left icons to load your 4K MOV to Prores Converter for Mac. You can load individual videos from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R by clicking "add videos", or load the entire folder by clicking ‘add from folder'.
Step 2: Choose Apple ProRes 422 codec for Final Cut Pro 7/X.
Click the "Profile" option, and move mouse cursor to Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 HQ (*.mov) as output format.
Tip:
To keep original video quality for editing in FCP, select “Apple ProRes 422”;
For SD levels – 480i/p and 576i/p and offline workflows, select “Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)”;
To edit and finish 4:4:4 material, choose “Apple ProRes 4444″.
Learn more Apple ProRes, please refer to Types of Apple ProRes Codecs
To get 1080 videos, we need to click the "Settings" button and choose 1920*1080 as output video resolution.
Step 3: Convert Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R4K MOV video files for FCP.
Click the read button Convert to start transcoding Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4R4K MOV video files to MOV for FCP 7/X. When the conversion is completed, click "Open" button to locate the converted Apple ProRes 422 MOV files for editing with Final Cut Pro.
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