Users who want to edit iPhone videos with Final Cut Pro usually run into incompatibility issue. Or can’t edit them smoothly after taking some time for importing iPhone(iPhone 6/iPhone 5/iPhone 4S) videos to FCP. Why? This is due to that iPhone 1080p videos are very hard to deal with during video editing. ProRes, a lossy video compression format that developed by Apple Inc., is a appropriate format for smooth editing in Mac. Thus, when you get many iPhone videos and want to edit them with Final Cut Pro, iMovie, or Adobe Premier, it's better to take advantage of the ProRes codec.
To achieve the goal, you can use Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, the best video converter that can help you convert iPhone video to FCP preferred ProRes codec with high output video quality. Meanwhile, the Mac Video Conversion tool can create files compatible with various non-linear editing systems like Avid Media Composer, FCE, iMovie, and Adobe Premiere (Pro), etc. Download it now and follow the steps to convert your iPhone .mov videos to Final Cut Pro X/7 for editing.

Converting iPhone Videos for Editing in FCP 7/X
Step 1: Import iPhone videos
Install and run the iPhone Video to FCP Converter on your Mac, then run it. Click on "Add", and browse your files; select all the iPhone .mov files you wanna convert. If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to FCP, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.

Step 2: Choose ProRes as output format
Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro > Apple PreRes 422(*.mov) as output format.

Tip: Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and mroe.
Step 3: Start conversion
After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the iPhone video to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing iPhone video in Final Cut Pro 7 or FCP X with ease.
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Source: iPhone Video to ProRes 422, ProRes 4444 for FCP editing workflow