How to Import AVI to Final Cut Pro for Editing

November 19, 2013 6:31 pm / Posted by Ian Lam to Video Editing

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Final Cut Pro (FCP) is the ultimate Mac video editor, which has gained the favor of many professional users including Hollywood film makers. But it only takes QuickTime and iMovie compatible video formats such as QuickTime MOV, QuickTime MP4, DV, HDV etc. But FCP, as a Mac application, does not support AVI for AVI is a typical Windows video format.

Many times, you will have trouble with editing AVI files in Final Cut Pro, it mainly because Final Cut Pro is from Apple and for Mac systems exclusively. If you have tried importing AVI files into Final Cut Pro, you will find it easier said than done, and you need an exterior process to make this work.

How to import AVI files into FCP and edit AVI with Final Cut Pro on Mac? Doremisoft AVI to FCP Converter can help you to convert AVI files into FCP supported video file DV so that you can easily import AVI clip into FCP and edit AVI files with FCP freely. Doremisoft AVI to Final Cut Pro Converter can also convert AVI files to other popular video formats, such as MOV, MP4, 3GP, MPG, WMV, AVI, etc. And transfer AVI files to iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV and more multimedia devices.

Doremisoft Video Converter Mac is also a perfect AVI Video Editor Mac, able to edit AVI files on Mac OS X easily. For example: its video cropping feature enables you to get rid of redundant sides of your AVI video after clicking on the “Edit” button.

Three steps will finish the AVI to FCP conversion, please follow the below instruction:

Click the “Add File” button to import the AVI videos from your hard drive to Mac video converter.

Move your mouse cursor to Common Video and select an DV video format as the target formats.

Click on the Start button to start converting AVI to FCP.