Final Cut Pro X, the latest version of video-editing software geared for professionals from a company increasingly focused on mainstream consumers. Final Cut Pro X is a follow-up to Final Cut Pro X, software Apple released in 2009 as part of Final Cut Studio. Like Apple’s newly released of Mac OS X Lion, Final Cut Pro X was only be available to customers through the Mac App Store. However, this new released FCP X does not support well with Panasonic DMC-FZ150 1080 60p/50p AVCHD Videos.

Panasonic DMC-FZ150 features 1920 x 1080 Full HD 60p (NTSC)/50p (PAL) smooth video recording. The high quality lens unit of 25 mm ultra wide-angle Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens with powerful 24x optical zoom features Panasonic’s Black Box Nano Surface Coating technology to minimize light reflection that causes ghost and flare. The powerful 24x optical zoom (35 mm camera equivalent: 25-600 mm) can increase its power to 32x equivalent with the intelligent zoom function taking advantage of the Intelligent Resolution technology maintaining the picture quality even using digital zoom. The DMC-FZ150 HD camera stores videos in .mts format with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression.

So if you want to edit DMC-FZ150 1080 60p/50p 28Mbps in Final Cut Pro X, you are recommended to use Panasonic Video Converter for Mac, which is the superior Mac Panasonic 60p/50p MTS to FCP X converter for Snow Leopard. It does not only convert Panasonic 1080 60p/50p AVCHD to MOV on Mac, but also merges 1080 60p/50p MTS files for import into Final Cut Pro X.

Here is the step-by-step guide for you to import and edit Panasonic DMC-FZ150 60p/50p MTS to Final Cut Pro X on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Snow Leopard.

Step 1. Load AVCHD 1080 60p/50p videos to Panasonic Video Converter for Mac.
After transferring .mts files from Panasonic DMC-FZ150 camera, run AVCHD Converter for Mac as the best Mac 1080 60p/50p MTS to MOV converter, and click the “Add File” button to load .mts videos.

Step 2. Choose H.264/AVC MOV output format.
Click the “Format” option, and choose HD Video or Common Video > H.264 MOV (AVC)(*.mov) for converting AVCHD videos from MTS to MOV with H.264/AVC as video codec for loading to Final Cut Studio. With this option, the output video will be kept as high definition 1920×1080.

Step 3. Merge Panasonic AVCHD files. (optional)
Select all the files and then click “Merge”, and the Panasonic DMC-FZ150 1080 60p/50p MTS converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.

Step 4. Convert DMC-FZ150 MTS to MOV for Final Cut Pro X.
Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Panasonic MTS converter starts converting 1080 60p/50p MTS videos to H.246 .mov, and joining the MTS files for editing in Final Cut Pro X.

After converting and merging the MTS files, just import the output files to Final Cut Pro X and the video is in HD 1920×1080. You can also import the output videos to Final Cut Express (FCE) 4 for editing in full HD.

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