7D footage

[Greg Brand]

Hi aaron

yeah you will start seeing problems once you begin grading or adding effects to the clips and trying to render the sequence. will prob take much longer to render the .mov H.264 clips.
as well as when you try and render your final video.
fcp may well start to throw out errors then.

worth giving it a try as you can always just proxy the clips afterwards and then link to the new clips.

if you not sure on the proxy thing, i may have a small tut on my site
gregbrand.co.uk

otherwise to be safe use mpeg streamclip and encode into Pro ress for best quality before editing.

hope that helps

Greg

https://gregbrand.co.uk

[Richard Harrington]

Can’t use log and transfer unless you also have thubmnail files from card

For FCP… transcode is best workflow.

Personally we offline in Premiere Pro for native support… then medua manage and color grade in Apple Color with ProRes

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork

[Aaron Moore]

The thubmnail files are in there. I am on FCP 6 if that makes a difference.

[Norman Pogson]

H.264 files are a delivery codec, highly compressed, they are not really a format computer friendly to edit from. When you transcode the footage you will see the files get much larger 4 times the size.

I use Cineform Neoscene which has a great transcoding format and produces a 4.2.2 .avi file.

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[Richard Van den boogaard]

Hi Aaron,

Either ProRes or Cineform´s NeoScene are your best solutions. Although the new CS5 offers a Mercury Playback engine, transcoding to some intermediate format still works better if you do extensive VFX or CC-work with the files. Since you use FCP, ProRes 422 probably is your best choice then.

Richard van den Boogaard
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[Eileen Cowin]

I am having the same issue. I did convert the files in Compressor but…I might have used the wrong settings. Should I have used the ProRes for interlaced video or progressive? And…the frame rate is 23.97- do I keep that setting?

Thanks,
Eileen

[David Shulkin]

Aaron:
One other note to consider – are you on Snow Leopard (10.6.x)? I know you mentioned FCP 6.x, but the Canon plugin needs to be on Snow Leopard as I recall.

My workflow is to run my clips through MPEG Streamclip to ProRes(HQ) – works like a charm – but I have also used the Canon plugin with success – nice to log clips, etc.

While a tad more cumbersome, don’t forget Compressor as a possible option if you have a ton of clips and you just need to batch and control (and utilize more processors).

[David Shulkin]

Eileen:
This might depend on what frame rate you set up your camera with.
The video is all progressive regardless of the frame rate. Your choices are 30p (29.97), 24p (23.97), 25p. So just confirm your frame rate and make sure you keep it progressive. Should work out fine.

[David Shulkin]

Eileen:
Forgot to mention that you are in 1920×1080 or you could be in 1270×720/60fps. Just confirm your raster size and frame rate and match to the Compressor settings.

[Eileen Cowin]

David,

When I get to my studio this afternoon I will check the settings.
I didn’t shoot the piece- I am just editing. And..I have never worked with this footage before.
I do know the frame rate was 23.97 but when I saw 1080i I wondered if I should have used the ProRes interlaced codec instead of Progressive.
I really appreciate your help with this.

Eileen