How to Convert, Import, Edit DV file to FCP on Mac OS X

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

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What is .DV file

DV, digital video, is a video clip from a digital video camera. Most consumer digital camcorders use .dv as the standard format saved to the DV tape. And Many video editing softwares support DV importing to edit: such as Apple iMovie, Roxio Toast 10 Titanium.

How to Playback DV files on Mac OS X

VideoLAN VLC media player is a free multimedia player, has the ability to play most multimedia files such as DV, FLV, AVI, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, etc as well as DVD movies. And the latest version of VLC Media Player for Mac OS X is Version 1.1.7: for 32/64 bits Intel Mac, for PowerPC Mac. The screenshot of VLC Media Player for Mac OS X as the following:

How to Convert DV files into Final Cut Pro for editing

Doremisoft DV to FCP Converter can help you to convert DV files into FCP supported video file DV so that you can easily import DV clip into FCP and edit DV files with FCP free. Doremisoft Video Converter is also a perfect DV Video Editor Mac, able to edit DV files easily on Mac OS X.

The following instruction would illustrate you in details how to convert DV to Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion included). Firstly, free download the professional DV to Final Cut Pro Converter.

Click the “Add File” button to select the DV videos from your hard drive to Mac video converter, or go to "File" menu then choose "Add Video" to import DV files you want to add.

Move your mouse cursor to Final Cut Pro and select an MOV video format as the target formats.

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