From the course: Preparing GoPro Footage for Editing

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Importing footage into Final Cut Pro X

Importing footage into Final Cut Pro X - GoPro HERO Tutorial

From the course: Preparing GoPro Footage for Editing

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Importing footage into Final Cut Pro X

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- If you use Apple's Final Cut Pro, it also can work with GoPro Media. Let's launch it and I'll show ya how. Once you launch Final Cut Pro, the first thing you'll want to do, is create a new library to hold the footage for the project. Let's call this GoPro. And I'll choose Save. Now, I can click the Import Media button, and navigate to my drive. In this case, I'll go to my hard drive, and start with the files direct from the camera. And if I select these, I can choose to add these to an event. Let's make a new event and call these Camera_Media. We'll leave it in place so it stays on the original hard drive, but you do have the options to copy to your library if you want to be able to remove a memory card. I'll assign a tag from the folder name, and I'm gonna allow it to Create optimized media. If you're concerned about performance, you can also make proxy media, but we shouldn't need that right now. And if you like, you tell it to, analyze the video to fix color issues. And when…

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