Easily import Nikon D7000 MOV video into imovie/FCP

The Nikon D7000 is a new prosumer DSLR camera with a 16.2-megapixel DX-format image sensor. Key highlights of the D7000 include Full 1080p HD video with full-time autofocus and manual exposure control, a new 2,016-pixel 3D Colour Matrix metering system, new EXPEED 2 image-processing engine, new 39-point Auto-focus system with 3D tracking, 14-bit analogue-to-digital conversion, 6fps continuous shooting, dust- and moisture-sealed magnesium alloy body, 921k dot 3-inch LCD screen, and dual memory card slots. Its most surprising feature is a 39-point autofocus sensor, which is significantly more sophisticated than anything else available at this price point.

Nikon D7000 features 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS sensor that works together with Nikon’s EXPEED 2 image processor, 1080p HD video with full time autofocus, 6FPS burst shooting, a 39-Point AF System, autofocus fine tuning, a 3〃 LCD display and pentaprism optical view finder, and dual SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slots. But this MOV video format came from Nikon D7000 is a long GOP format that is highly compressed.

The good: Excellent performance for its class; great viewfinder; control locations and operations streamlined over previous Nikon dSLRs; double SDXC-compatible card slots.
The bad: No 1080/30p video.
The bottom line: An excellent dSLR for experienced shooters or Nikon professionals looking for a relatively cheap option, the Nikon D7000 delivers on almost all counts, including the company's best shooting design to date.

If you have tried to import the mov file into imovie or final cut pro for editing, you will know the mov file can not be imported. To edit the video on mac smoothly, you should transfer nikon footage to mac friendly mov format.

Doremisoft video converter can do the mov to mov conversion. This converter support various format. You can use this converter to convert AVCHD mts, m2ts, avi, wmv, mod, mkv, mxf, etc. format to other format like mov, mp4, dv, avi, mpg, 3gp, and so on.

Follow the steps to convert highly compressed mov video to imovie with nikon video converter for mac:
At the beginning, you should get a video converter, then install it. After you run the converter, you can click "Add Files" to load the mov video into converter.

Then choose the output format.

Af last, just click the big blue button to start the conversion. After the conversion is finished, you can import it into imovie for editing.

Tip:
Doremisoft xavc converter for mac is a converter that can help you import sony pmw-f5 xavc to imovie and pmw-f55 xavc to imovie for professional editing. Import XAVC video from pmw-f55 to sony vegas is an easy thing. So if you get a Sony pmw-f5 or Sony pmw-f55 and can not import them into video editing software, you get try this.

How to convert Sony XDCAM PMW-200 MXF file to FCP for professional editing

A camcorder can record the people you have met, and record your friends' and family's smile. It also can help you remenber the place you have been, when you grow older you can look back the your younger time. This is nice thing to most of us, so get a camcorder is cool thing. Let's have a look at Sony XDCAM PMW-200.
The PMW-200 features the same Fujinon lens as the PMW-EX1R. The lens has a 14x zoom ratio, and the 5.8-81.2mm focal length range has a 35mm equivalent of 30-439mm. At f/1.9, the fast maximum aperture helps when shooting in low-light conditions and allows for reasonably shallow depth of field. The PMW-200 is equipped with three 1/2" Full HD 1920 x 1080 Exmor CMOS sensors, which support 1000 TV1 high resolution, F11 (2000 lx) high sensitivity, low 56dB noise and a wide dynamic range. It works for SD/HD recording and features a 14x zoom lens with a unique focus ring mechanism.
The PMW-200 can record in HD442, HD440 and DVCAM formats, which means that it is fully compatible with all past and present XDCAM workflows, and either UDF or FAT file formats can be used with appropriate recording media. A variety of recording formats such as 50Mbps/35Mbps MXF, 35Mbps/25Mbps MP4 and DVCAM are available for a wide range of applications and workflows.
For MXF file is a "container" or "wrapper" format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file. Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, Harris, Rhozet, Sony Vegas Pro, etc.
If you want to import sony xdcam mxf to fcp in another way, you can choose a video converter to convert the video to FCP supported format then import to FCP directly. You can learn how to convert sony xdcam to fcp with Doremisoft video converter:
At first, you should get your MXF video backup on your mac, install doremisoft video converter to you Mac, run the converter. Then you can click "Add Files" to load the MXF file into it.
After that, you can choose the output format for fcp, click the "Convert to" menu bar to select the Apple ProRes 422 as output file format.

When the setting is finished, you can hit the big blue button to start converting XDCAM MXF to FCP ProRes.
Tip:
This video converter also can be a XAVC Converter, with this converter you can convert XAVC file from sony pmw-f5 to fcp, or convert pmw-f5 to sony vegas for editing. If you are Windows user, to edit xavc footages in windows movie maker just choose WMV or AVI as output format.