The Canon EOS 6D Mark II comes equipped with powerful Full HD video recording options, you can record up to a maximum frame rate of 60p in MOV or MP4 container with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression codec. For Mac users, you may wish to load the Canon EOS 6D Mark II to FCP X for some professional post editing workflow, the following will show you how to get the smooth workflow of Canon EOS 6D Mark II with FCP X.
Can FCP X native support Canon EOS 6D Mark II HD video?
From FCP X supported file formats, we can see that you can native import Canon EOS 6D Mark II MOV or MP4 H.264 file into FCP X. However, it is well known that H.264 is a good delivery file format, but not a good editing format. If you try to directly edit H.264 in FCP X, you will start to lose image quality as you do color correction or composite gradients to create greenscreen keys. If you wish to achieve a high quality and high performance workflow of Canon EOS 6D Mark II video with FCP X, we highly recommend you to transcode H.264 to Apple Prores codec, which render faster and have more room, so you can create great looking effects without losing any quality.
Transcode Canon EOS 6D Mark II H.264 to Prores for FCP X
To produce Apple Prores codec from Canon EOS 6D Mark II, we highly recommend our best Mac Prores Converter - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to you. The program can assist you to effectively encode Canon EOS 6D Mark II H.264 to FCP X best compatible Apple Prores in various different file types including Apple Prores 422, Apple Prores 422 (HQ), Apple Prores 422 (LT), Apple Prores 422 (Proxy) and Apple Prores 4444. You can flexibly make your own selection according to your own needs.
If you computer is old or slow, or you just want to do some rough editing, you can select to output "Apple Prores Proxy)(*.mov)"or "Apple Prores (LT)(*.mov)"format to save more space and bandwidth. However, if your computer are powerful enough to handle multicam and high-resolution video and you are going to do many effects editing work with FCP X, you'd better choose to output "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)" for better performance.
Step by Step to Convert Canon EOS 6D Mark II to Prores for FCP X Editing
Step 1: Load Canon EOS 6D Mark II H.264 video.
Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Canon EOS 6D Mark II H.264 video files into the program.
Step 2: Select output file format.
Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down list, select your desired Prores format such as "Final Cut Pro" > "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)", you can also choose other Prores format on your own needs.
Step 3: Begin the final conversion process.
Go back to the main interface and press the "Convert" icon on the right-bottom to start Canon EOS 6D Mark II H.264 video to Final Cut Pro X Apple Prores MOV conversion process.
When the conversion is done, feel free to import converted video to FCP X for furthering professional editing.
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