Nikon D800/D800E Digital SLR Camera is more than a DSLR, it’s a broadcast quality video camera as well. Driving both still and video capture is the FX-format CMOS 36.3Mp sensor and the powerful EXPEED 3 image-processing engine. When it comes to HD movie capture, the D800 shoots broadcast quality video in two D-Movie formats at 1080/30p full HD. The D800/D800E captures movies in FX and DX movie formats. The FX-based format renders shallow depth of field with beautiful bokeh, while the DX-format uses an image area similar to 35mm movie film, for a look cinematographers are accustomed to. But the MOV video format came from Nikon D800/D800E is a long GOP format that is highly compressed, it is not a good editing format.

So you will not playback or edit smoothly the highly compressed MOV on your Mac with FCP 6/7 or FCP X. You need to convert the 1080p HD MOV footage off your Nikon D800/D800E with Mac Nikon D800/D800E MOV Converter for FCP 6/7 or FCP X for Snow Leopard. It does not only convert Nikon D800/D800E MOV to a playable/compatible Mac H.264 MOV, Apple ProRes 422 MOV on Mac for Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X but also supports other Nikon D800/D800E cameras.

Here is the step-by-step guide for you to import and convert Nikon D800/D800E HD MOV files to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion.

Step 1. Load Nikon D800/D800E HD MOV videos to Nikon MOV Converter for Mac.

After transferring .mov files from Nikon D800/D800E camera, run Nikon Video Converter for Mac from UFUSoft as the best Mac Nikon D800/D800E to Final Cut MOV Converter, and click the “Add” button to load .mov videos.

Step 2. Choose HD MOV or ProRes 422 MOV output format for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X.

Click the “Profile” option, and choose HD Video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) or Final Cut Pro > ProRes 422 MOV (*.mov) for converting the highly compressed Nikon D800/D800E HD MOV to compatible MOV for loading to Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X. With this option, the output video will be kept as high definition 1920×1080.

Step3. Merge Nikon D800/D800E 1080p H.264 MOV files. (Optional)

Select the files in the filelist and click Merge, and the Nikon D800/D800E 1080p H.264 MOV converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.

Step4. Convert Nikon D800/D800E 1080p H.264 MOV to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X on Mac

Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Nikon D800/D800E MOV converter starts converting Nikon D800/D800E MOV videos to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X MOV, and joining the files for playing/editing on FCP 6/7 or FCP X.

After converting and merging the Nikon D800/D800E MOV files, just import the output files to Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X for editing still in HD.

If you are on a Windows computer with Windows XP/2003/Vista, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, and would like to put Nikon D800/D800E videos to Windows Moive Maker,Adobe Premiere,Sony Vegas for editing, just use the Windows Nikon D800/D800E video converter.

Tip:
1. The Best Nikon Video Converter for Mac also supports converting Nikon D7000, Nikon D5100, Nikon D3100, Nikon D800, Nikon 1 J2, Nikon 1 J1, Nikon 1 V1, Nikon D3200, Nikon D3S, Nikon D600, Nikon D4, Nikon 1 V2, etc MOV videos to ProRes MOV, H.264 MOV, MPG, DV, AVI, etc on Mac for Final Cut Pro 6/7, Final Cut Express 4, iMovie 8/9/11, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc.