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  simple 7D question

  Posted by Carrie Clark on January 20, 2011 at 11:53 pm

  Hello –

  I am shooting a short promo video using the 7D. I have used the HVX and took it for granted that the transferring process must be similar. However, after much research online I am finding a lot of people using the plug in for FCP, which mean I will need FCP on my laptop that i am using. With the HVX I would download the files on to an external drive and transcode the files into FCP later. I was wondering if this was also the case with 7D footage. I am asking because I currently do not have FCP on my laptop.

  Thanks for you help!
  -carrie-

  Anthony Bari jr. replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Locke

  January 21, 2011 at 3:39 am

  Hi Carrie; indeed, the 7D records it’s h264 (.MOV) files to CF cards, so you would just need a card reader to load it to whatever you need to store it on. The “plug-in” from Canon is for the log and transfer of that original media into FCP, typically when one would transcode. I’m assuming you have Apple hardware,FCP7, and OSX; not sure if the Canon plug-in works with older software. Just make sure to copy everything on the card to a folder to maintain file structure, or FCP will reject it even with the plug-in (Shane Ross has a great overview tutorial https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1 ). Hope this helps…ML
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  Anthony Bari jr.

  January 28, 2011 at 5:40 am

  The Canon Plugin works for both FCP 6 and 7, you just wont have all the ProRes options in FCP6 (only 422 and 422HQ)

  here is the link

  https://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=3249

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