Tips Editing iPhone 8 HEVC in Final Cut Pro X

This post presents a workaround to convert iPhone 8 HEVC to ProRes for editing in FCP X fluidly. 



Trying to import iPhone 8 HEVC video into FCP X but failed? Currently, Final Cut Pro X doesn’t have native support for HEVC/H.265 files. The only solution is to transcode them at the moment. The following guide explains how to convert iPhone 8 HEVC/H.265 video to ProRes codec for editing with Final Cut Pro X with optimum performance. 

To achieve the goal, here we recommend Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. Among all available H.265 video converters in the market, Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac claims one of the best. It is an all-in-one H.265 decoder, encoder, converter and player. Not only can it allow people to convert H.265 to common video files like H.264 MP4, MPEG4, MPEG-2, WMV, MOV, etc, but also supports various professional encoders, Apple Intermediate Codec, ProRes and DNxHD, DVCPRO, HDV - ensuring the best results when editing with iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer respectively. What's more, through constant updates, this Mac video converter keeps pace with each macOS upgrade, working perfectly on new macOS High Sierra with no compatibility or other unexpected errors at all. In a word, Brorsoft Video Converter Mac is such an easy to use operation program that can hold all the video formats also with zero quality loss on Mac OS X(High Sierra included). 

Main Features: 

- Acting as the H.265 Encoder- Brorsoft Video Converter enables to encode all variety of video files including MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MKV, VOB, FLV, AVCHD, MXF, MOD, TOD, R3D, TS, RMVB, WTV and etc to H.265. 
- Acting as the H.265 Decoder- It supports decoding H.265 to other video format like MP4, AVI or directly convert H.265 video to audio format like MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, AIFF, FLAC, RA, AU, DTS and etc. 
- Acting as the H.265 Player- Brorsoft H.265 Converter can directly play H.265 video files without format conversion in the preview window after loaded in. 
- Acting as the H.265 Editor- It can edit H.265 like merge H.265 files into one, crop H.265, trim H.265, rotate H.265 video, add subtitles/watermark to HEVC, adjust the H.265 parameter like bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio volume and etc. 

Converting iPhone 8 HEVC to ProRes for Final Cut Pro 

1. Load H.265 video files 

Launch the HEVC to ProRes converter. You can directly drag and drop the iPhone 8 h.265 files to the software, or click "Add" button to locate the source files. 

 

2. Choose Final Cut Pro Profile 

Press "Format" option and navigate the mouse cursor to choose "Format > Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as the best codec for FCP X on Mac. 

 

Tip: Before conversion, you can click the "Settings" icon to customize the video/audio settings: Video Codec, video size, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels for Final Cut Pro. 

3. Start iPhone 8 video to FCP conversion 

Click the big "Convert" button at the bottom right corner, it will start to convert iPhone 8 H.265 to ProRes for Final Cut Pro immediately. Once the conversion completes, directly import the converted files to FCP, and then you can play, edit iPhone HEVC files in Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7 freely. 

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