Convert Canon 5D Mark III H.264 footage to ProRes 422 for FCP X

This page offers some tricks to work Canon 5D Mark III MOV files in Final Cut Pro X smoothly. 



I've research almost everywhere to get some clues to load Canon 5D Mark III MOV to FCP X as Final Cut can't import the H.264 footage, even the raw video could be successfully loaded to FCP X, the film will looks quite jumpy. What's the fix to it?

Looking around for any decent tutorials, I finally got a solid solution from Apple's forum. In fact, H.264 is a delivery codec rather than editing code, and you need to transcode H.264 footage to a format more friendly for FCP X, for instance, Apple ProRes 422 codec. Here I will throw a quick tutorial up on how to transcode Canon 5D Mark III H.264 to ProRes 422 for FCP X editing flawlessly on Mac(macOS Sierra included).

First, you need to have a Canon MOV conversion hooked to your Mac. Here I recommend you try Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. The program supports transcoding Canon 5D Mark III h.264 MOV to Apple ProRes 422 without quality loss so that you can easily impor 5D M3 videos to Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7 without crashing problem and avoid rendering. Now just download the program and follow the step-by-step guide to convert 5D Mark III footage to ProRes for FCP X.

How to Convert Canon 5D Mark III videos to work in Final Cut Pro X

Step 1. Free Download and run the top Mac Canon MOV Converter, drag Canon EOS 5D Mark III recorded videos to the software.

Tip: If you have multiple MOV files, you can select the "Merge into one" box to join your MOV files into one single file.



Step 2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)"as output format.



Step 3. Click "Convert"button to start transcoding 5D Mark III h.264 .mov to Apple ProRes Codec for Final Cut Pro X on Mac OS X.

So there you have it. Pretty simple. After the workflow, you can go to the output folder to find the converted video files. Now you are free to log and transfer or directly import Canon 5D Mark III videos to Final Cut Pro X for easy editing.