How to Convert AVCHD to FCE & Edit AVCHD with Final Cut Express

Final Cut Express is the relatively inexpensive consumer version of a professional video editng suite. Express gives you the capability to synchronize images and sound, add special effects, and export projects as standalone videos in a variety of formats. And Apple has just announced that Final Cut Express now supports latest AVCHD cameras. However, the "latest" here has excluded quite some AVCHD camcorders. Therefore, not all AVCHD camcorder videos are supported by Final Cut Express.

If you want to edit AVCHD on FCE and FCE does not take the AVCHD files from your camcorder, the best way to edit your AVCHD files on FCE will be converting them to formats that are perfectly supported by FCE. These formats are also QuickTime compatible formats such as MOV, DV, MP4, HDV etc. Doremisoft AVCHD to FCE Converter is the perfectly right tool for users who cannot import AVCHD to FCE.

Doremisoft AVCHD to Final Cut Express converter is very easy to use. All you need to do is to import, select output format and then convert, as shown in the three easy steps below:

AVCHD to Final Cut Express converting tutorial

Step 1: Add AVCHD video
Click the “Add File” button to add the AVCHD files from your hard disc to Doremisoft Mac AVCHD Converter.

Step 2: Clip AVCHD video
If you just want cut shorter your AVCHD video to get rid of the redundant part to you, you can click on the “Clip” tab and trim the length

Step 3: Simple editing
You can also use Doremisoft AVCHD to Final Cut Express Converter to do basic editing such as cropping video, editing video brightness, contract, saturation and apply a special effect to your AVCHD video.

Step 4: Select the right output format
Click on the right part of the Profile field to open the Profile menu where you can see all the preset output format profiles. Move your mouse cursor to Common Video, and select the first profie: .dv

Step 5: Convert AVCHD to FCE DV
Click on the start button to start the conversion. The output folder will be opened after the conversion.