How to Import Blackmagic Design URSA Camera 4K files to FCP X/7

Summary: Follow this tutorial to learn the best workflow for importing and editing Blackmagic Ursa 4K footage in Final Cut Pro X/7.

Blackmagic Design URSA Camera features a form factor that is designed to make it flexible enough to use on productions of all sizes. At the heart of the imaging system, Blackmagic URSA equips a 3840 x 2160 resolution, global shutter CMOS sensor with 12 stops of dynamic range. It offers you two recording modes: Apple ProRes 422 HQ and losslessly compressed CinemaDNG RAW.



After recording some amazing 4K videos with Blackmagic Design URSA camera, chances are you want to load these 4K footage into Final Cut Pro X/7 for making your own masterpiece. But sometimes you might get frustrated to find FCP cannot recognize Blackmagic URSA 4K footage. That's because Blackmagic camera recorded 4K RAW video format is beyond the compatibility of FCP, what’s more, handling 4K video in Final Cut Pro X/7/6 is extremely hardware intensive. To solve the problem, you need to convert BlackMagic Ursa 4K RAW files to Final Cut Pro supported format like ProRes 422 with Brorsoft 4K Video Converter for Mac.

The program is an easy-to-use yet professional Blackmagic 4K Converter. It’s able to convert 4K RAW files to Final Cut Pro X/7 more compatible format ProRes 422 or ProRes 4444 without quality loss. Plus, this 4K video app can also encode any 4K videos including XAVC/XAVC S, 4K MP4, 4K MOV, etc to Premiere Pro, iMovie, Avid Media Composer, etc. Besides, this 4K Video Converter is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K, 4K as users want. Download the tool and start the 4K video conversion on Mac(Mavericks included).

Convert Blackmagic URSA 4K videos to ProRes MOV for FCP X/7 on Mac

Step 1. Download, install and run the BlackMagic 4K Converter Mac; click "Add Videos" icon to load your source videos from Blackmagic URSA.



Step 2. Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format.



Step 3. Set proper video/ audio parameters. Click the “Settings” button and set proper video/ audio parameters. You can reset set the video size, bitrate and fame rate. You can keep original 4K resolution or adjust video size to 2K or 1080 full HD as you need.



Step 4. Hit the convert button, it will start converting 4K RAW from Blackmagic URSA to Final Cut Pro X/7 compatible format immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for natively editing in Final Cut Pro X/7/6 perfectly.

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