samsung s9+ video footage to be edited in FCP7

[Raju Bhai]

Thanks for info!
But i don’t have the option to reshoot, I must use this footage.

But FORTUNATELY, my edit is very simple. All my footage is in one 2 minute clip and the only job I have to do is to cut a section out of the clip, that is all!
And I don’t mind if there are tiny aberrations.

Given these circumstances, can you recommend a way to get this video into FCP7?

[Shane Ross]

[raju bhai] “I want to know how to transcode this. I am using apple compressor, which has always worked very well for me.”

There are presets in COMPRESSOR for ProRes. Use those. Just ProRes 422 will do. It’s under the APPLE CODECS, but you can also search for the codecs in the little search bar at the top of the codec list.

[raju bhai] “Do i need to transcode to Prores for this? Or can i pick a different format to transcode to?”

Yes, ProRes. That’s the best codec for this.

Shane
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[Raju Bhai]

OK THANKS,
I transcoded to PRORES 422 with Compressor. The only problem is that the video came out stretched horizontally.
I forgot to mention that this was filmed with the phone held vertically (taller than it is wide), not horizontally. I want to keep it like that. Any setting i should change in the Prores parameters so it exports vertical like the original?

[Michael Gissing]

It would be so much easier to use Resolve or Premiere which can work with this natively. Resolve has a free version which is capable of this.

Portrait can be edited in landscape and then reoriented.