This is a flash disk camera so you need to use the log and transfer function in FCP. Plug the power supply into the camera, connect the camera to your computer using the included USB cable, put the camera in playback mode, the camera will prompt you to either print to DVD or transfer to your computer, choose computer or PC. Your camera will show up on the desktop as a USB drive. Open FCP, file>long and transfer and your media should appear. If you’re using FCP7 then you can choose a variety of ProRes codecs to help manage file size.