• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  5DM3 material on FCP

  Posted by Nicklas Gks on May 27, 2012 at 3:29 pm

  Hi guys, I have an iMac 3,1 Ghz Core i5 with 12 GB og RAM. I have recently shot some 5DM3 material and have converted the files to ProRes 422(HQ) which I have read is the best setting for editing 5DM3 material. But FCP can’t really cope with the material, my timeline settings are good, I’m editing from an external drive through firewire 800. What should I do? What is the best way to edit 5D material and still keep the best quality!?

  Regards, Nicklas

  Joseph Hung replied 14 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  May 27, 2012 at 4:16 pm

  Standard ProRes or ProRes LT will work perfect with your system and FW800 drive. ProRes HQ is causing the problem. Very large file sizes and drives can’t keep up with your data rate.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Creative Pro Users Group
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  Joseph Hung

  June 2, 2012 at 3:42 pm

  Steve’s right, use Standard ProRes. The Canon 5DMKIII is still highly compressed video files, there isn’t really enough info there to warrant using HQ. I would bet that you won’t see the difference between the two codecs. Standard ProRes will give you great quality, but without the file size and data rate of HQ.

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