Transfer 4K MP4 from Sony FDR-X1000 to FCP X on Mac

The Sony FDR-X1000 houses a ton of useful features for action lovers, plus it can record at 4K 100Mbps in Sony's efficient XAVC S codec. There's built-in image stabilization and the camera offers exposure compensation and white balance control. To top it all off, the X1000V records great quality 4K video.


The latest version FCP X natively supports to decode the 4K XAVC S video captured with FDR-X1000, this also means the former version of FCP X does not have the capability to ingest 4K MP4 files for editing. If you are trying to import and edit FDR-X1000 MP4 files with FCP X former version, you will definitely receive "importing errror" message.

To address this issue, the best solution is transocde FDR-X1000 MP4 to FCP X friendly editing codec such as ProRes MOV. You can perform the conversion by downloading a specialist software called 4K Video Converter for Mac (support for  Mac OS X El Capitan ), which is capable of effortlessly decoding FDR-X1000 4K MP4 to FCP X ready-made customized formats with all the suitable settings. As a pretty ease of use application, all the conversion process can be done in just few clicks with high quality output video.

Besides FCP X, you will also get no problem to import and edit FDR-X1000 MP4 in other other professional editing programs such as Premeire Pro CC, iMovie, Premiere Elements, Avid Media Composer, Edius Pro or played on El Capitan with  QuickTime.


To import and edit MKV files in Sony Vegas Pro 13, 12 or 11, you need to convert MKV to Sony Vegas Pro editable format via best MKV to Sony Vegas Pro Converter. Guide- Sony Vegas Pro MKV | Edit MKV in Vegas Pro 13/12/11

How to transfer and edit FDR-X1000 MP4 with FCP X?

Step 1: Add FDR-X1000 MP4 video to the program.
Run the program, click "File" > "Add video/audio" to add FDR-X1000 MP4 videos to the program.



Step 2: Specify output file format.
From "Format" drop-down list, select to out "Final Cut Pro"> "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" format for editing with Final Cut Pro X.



Step 3: Carry out the conversion process.
Press right-bottom conversion button to start encoding FDR-X1000 MP4 to FCP X on Mac.

When the conversion is complete, you can easily import converted files to FCP X for professional editing.

By the way, you can also download Pavtube other software such as 4K Video Converter for Mac, Acrok 4K Video Converter for Mac to decode and import MP4 videos to iMovie/FCE/FCP on Mac OS X El Capitan.