The Sony CX240 records videos in the AVCHD and MP4 formats for high-quality or easy transfer and sharing. For the greatest flexibility, you can even record AVCHD and MP4 formats simultaneously. AVCHD provides premium video that can be enjoyed on large screen HDTVs and is ideal for capturing precious memories at special occasions, family vacations and other moments you want to treasure for a lifetime. MP4 is great for those moments that you want to quickly share on your social networks or store on the cloud.
Regarding to the AVCHD codec, it is very popular in both the professional and consumer market. That means most non-linear editing software should have full support for the codec, but the thing is that users still have problems one or another while trying to open the CX240 AVCHD video in Final Cut Pro X for further editing.
In order to import and edit Sony CX240 AVCHD files in FCP X without crashing problem and avoid rendering, you'd better transfer the Sony CX240 AVCHD videos to FCP X native format. UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac can help you achieve the goal smoothly. It can aid you to change AVCHD (*.MTS) files to standard Apple ProRes for FCP X without losing any quality. In fact, it's an all-in-one converter for fast transcoding, deinterlacing AVCHD video from Canon, Panasonic, JVC, Sony full HD camcorder/cameras on Mac OS X that makes the AVCHD editing work much easier with Non-Linear System.
Convert Sony CX240 AVCHD video files to Apple ProRes for FCP X editing
Step 1. Free download the UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac, and install it on your Mac.
Step 2. Run the Sony AVCHD to FCP X Converter and import AVCHD videos from your Sony CX240 to it.
Step 3. Click the "Profile" box and select "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as output format.
Step 4. Before convert Sony CX240 to FCP X, you can adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.
Tip: Please set 1920*1080 as video size, 30fps for users in NTSC area and 25fps in PAL area as video bitrate to get the best video quality. If you want to get a smaller ones, please decrease the video size from 1920*1080 to 1440*1080 or 1280*720.
Step 5. Click the "Convert" button to convert Sony CX240 AVCHD videos to Apple ProRes immediately.
After the Sony CX240 AVCHD to Apple ProRes conversion is 100% completed, you can now import the converted MOV files to Final Cut Pro with original quality, and then you can edit Sony CX240 video with Final Cut Pro 6/7/X natively, there will be no problems.
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