[b][size="4"]Get the Final Cut Pro work with MTS videos from Sony HDR-PJ440, the easy workaround is to transcode Sony HDR-PJ440 MTS to Final Cut Pro natively supported format - ProRes. [/size][/b]
One of my friends has a Sony HDR-PJ440, which is the best camcorder as he thought. He captured many videos with his PJ440 like 1080 60p AVCHD, XAVC S, and he wants to edit the AVCHD recording with Final Cut Pro thus he can share the videos with us and upload video on the website. But while he trying to import MTS clips [b]Sony HDR-PJ440 to Final Cut Pro(X)[/b], the program can’t be compatible well with these AVCHD files. I tried to do a test about editing Sony HDR-PJ440 MTS clips in FCP on my iMac. The movie is just a short one (about 1 minute) and can be downloaded in the original 1920x1080, 60 fps. Unfortunately after import, I can only see black in the viewer. It seems that Final Cut Pro can’t support the Sony PJ440 footage.
So, how to solve the Sony HDR-PJ440/B to Final Cut Pro incompatible issues? In fact, I just download [b]Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac[/b] then install and run it on my Mac. It helps me to convert Sony PJ440 MTS to ProRes, which ensures the best result when using in Final Cut Pro. Look at the following detailed steps
[b]Step 1.[/b] Launch the Mac MTS Converter, then click the adding button to import your MTS/M2TS files to it. You can check the “Merge into one” box to join several video files together.
[b]Step 2.[/b] Press “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to choose “Format > Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as the best codec for Final Cut Pro 6/7 and FCP X.
[b]Step 3.[/b] Open up the “Settings” icon and you can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface to optimize the output file quality.
[b]Step 4.[/b] When you finish all settings, hit “Convert” button to start transcoding Sony HDR-PJ440 MTS for Final Cut Pro on Mac. You can follow the conversion process from the pop-up windows.
After the conversion, it would be easy to import Sony HDR-PJ440 MTS files into Final Cut Pro X/7/6 for natively editing.