Import and Load Sony Cyber-shot WX350 AVCHD to FCP X/7/6 on Mac

Published on December 8 2014 by Terry

The black Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX350 Digital Camera is a compact zoom point-and-shoot that features an 18.2MP Exmor R CMOS sensor with a BIONZ X image processor for notable low-light performance, and a powerful 20x optical zoom lens with an additional 40x Clear Image Zoom. A 4.3-86mm f/3.5-6.5 lens, which has a 35mm equivalent focal length of 25-500mm, establishes the camera as having considerable wide-angle to telephoto image capturing abilities. To view your images and high-resolution full HD 1080/60p AVCHD videos, there is a 3" Clear Photo LCD 460k-dot monitor at the back.

Native AVCHD file support is the first thing I expected for the FCP 6/7/X. However, FCP can not recognize Sony Cyber-shot WX350 AVCHD, especially without log and transfer. Even though FCP provide AVCHD footage editors with the Log and Transfer, you have to keep the entire structure of your files. If you want to import your Sony DSC-WX350 files to FCP, the best solution is transcoding the Sony Cybershot WX350 AVCHD footages FCP native format, (e.g. Apple Prores encoded .mov format). To help those who wanna edit Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350 AVCHD MTS videos in FCP smoothly, here I will throw this quick guide up on how to convert Sony Cyber-shot WX350 AVCHD MTS to Prores 422 and then load the encoded AVCHD files into FCP for editing.

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Convert/Transfer and Edit Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350 AVCHD mts footages in FCP X/7/6 smoothly on Mac

Step 1. Free donwload and run the Sony AVCHD MTS Transcoder for FCP to your Mac, and then import the recorded Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350 AVCHD videos into the program.

PS: It’s excellent Sony AVCHD video converter which can convert nearly all Sony cameras’ videos to any formats you need, such as Apple Prores 422 MOV, Apple InterMediate Codec MOV, QuickTime MOV, etc.

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 in the main interface to start transcoding Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350 AVCHD MTS to FCP Prores 422 on mac.

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 import/edit Sony Cyber-shot WX350 AVCHD mts files in FCP under Mac without problems.

Open up Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, follow "File > Import > Files…" to import and edit the converted Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350 AVCHD MTS videos.