Monday, May 18, 2015

Samsung NX500 H.265 to FCP X Workflow on Mac OS X Yosemite

Convert and edit our Samsung NX500 H.265 movies in FCP X on Mac OS X Yosemite? Do you have any good suggestions for H.265 to FCP X workflow? Well, for those nonlinear editors, we here have already found a professional NX500 to FCP X decoder to edit the H.265 recordings in FCP X without troubles.

With the FCP X best supported and limited video formats, not only for Samsung NX500 H.265 but also for other high definition videos such like AVCHD, XAVC, etc, we are failed in directly importing H.265 projects to FCP X for editing. The NX500 supports both 4K and UHD video recording, utilizing BSI APS-C sensors, the largest BSI sensor currently available, which provides more flexibility when it comes to capturing movies. So a professional third-party H.265 to FCP X assistant is necessary for us to work the job well.


How to convert Samsung NX500 H.265 to ProRes MOV for editing in FCP X? 

After comparing with others, we found that Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac can be the best solution to import NX500 H.265 video clips to FCP X for editing. With it, you not only can convert Samsung NX500/NX1 HEVC (H.265) videos to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV for easily playing, but also can convert HEVC (H.265) files to the editing tools with professional codec. Besides, the built-in video editor allows you to modify your videos by trimming, cropping, adjusting video effects and more. You can take this H.265 to PPro workflow as a good example. What’s the specific details?

Steps on converting Samsung NX500 H.265 to ProRes MOV for FCP X:
Step 1. Launch the program and click “Add” button to import the Samsung NX500 H.265 files to the program. Batch conversion is supported.


Step 2. Select ‘Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)’ as output format for opening with FCP X.
From the ‘Profile’ list, move to ‘Final Cut Pro’ catalogue, and select ‘Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)’ as target format. Apple ProRes is the best suited editing codec for FCP X.


Step 3. Adjust video and audio settings (for advanced users)
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels.

Go back to the main interface and click the icon ‘Convert’, we can easily make the work done. Then just follow the FCP X transferring tips, it would be nice to edit the Samsung NX500 H.265 files in FCP X.

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