How to Edit Camcorder recorded Christmas Party Videos

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Summary: Santa Claus at Cascade Cafe to spread cheer and joy while you tuck in our sumptuous buffet spread accompanied by music in a Christmassy setting. Every thing sound great, you have recorded the happy memories with your camcorder. Then here provide you the solution to add effect on every video clips.

With Christmas coming closer and closer, you are deep down in the dizzying depths of a busy house-cleaning work, it seems suddenly you have to get everything cleaned up! You began to busy for the Christmas party, imagine how cozy that enjoy Christmas buffet in such festive atmosphere, with wonderful Live Show surrounding you as well as the lucky draw. Santa Claus at Cascade Cafe to spread cheer and joy while you tuck in our sumptuous buffet spread accompanied by music in a Christmassy setting. Every thing sound great, you have recorded the happy memories with your camcorder.

Then you prepare to add the good effects for every Christmas video clips in a editor, and then transfer to every friends of you magic video clips. However, things are not always going smooth, you failed to import the video to the editor and you really don’t figure out what happened on the video. 

Don’t worry, just clam down and you will got the solution here and all works can be done perfectly. 

The first thing I wanna you make clear is that, i really don’t know what editor you have chosen, but it doesn’t matter, every issue has it’s solution, you just need to know the solution, right? As camcorder records video with MXF , MOV, MP4, AVCHD, MTS,XAVC/XAVC-S,etc. All this format are not the friendly format for editor, so the question just you have met happened. If you importing all the best supported format for each editor, such as the Apple ProRes for FCP, MPEG-2 for the Premiere, or the DNxHD for Avid, editor will be work well. 

Hot Search: H.264 into Final Cut Pro | Import Media Files to Adobe Premiere Pro | QuickTime Files to Avid 

Therefore, if you want to import videos such as MXF , MOV, MP4, or XAVC/XAVC-S files to editor(FCP will be chosen as example, other editor will be the same as long as you import video with the compatible format) for editting, a converter is needed. Among many apps on the market, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac(read the review) is the top-ranked one. It can transcode any camcorder recorded videos to editor best compatible format with excellent video quality. In settings window, you can freely adjust the video and audio size, codec, nitrate, frame rate, etc to get more compatible video for each editor If you are a Windows user, please turn to Pavtube Video Converter, the same ability as Mac version.

          

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Simple steps to convert Christmas Video to FCP X on Mac

Step 1: Import Christmas Video to the program.

Plug the camera into the computer via USB to transfer the footage to local Mac hard drive, then input the files from your local to the program.



Step 2: Choose output format.

Click “Format” bar, from its drop-down options, move your mouse to “Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” to select it as the output file format. Other editor please choose other compatible format such as MPEG-2 for the Premiere, or the DNxHD for Avid, ect.



Step 3: Customize output ProRes parameters.

Open “Profile Settings” window to adjust the output video codec, size, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, sample rate, bit rate and channels.



Step 4: Convert Christmas Video to FCP X.

Hit the convert button under the preview windows, the program will start Christmas Video to Apple ProRes MOV conversion for Final Cut Pro X.

When the conversion is completed, run FCP and import the ProRes codec footage for post production workflow.

Related program: 

Pavtube Media Magician / Mac Version: A nice camcorder assistant manager, lossless camcorder video joiner, MTS/ M2TS/ MXF/ MOV/ MKV/ TiVo/ WMV/ AVI/ MPG converter and editor. Meamwhile it supported upload edited video to YouTube directly.

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