Canon EOS 7D Editing

[Josh Bowren]

Vegas Video 9.0d will edit the H.264 files. Again as above…major computer lag on slower computers.

josh

[Mail Ber]

MOV files profuced by Canon EOS 7D Mark II are a long GOP format that is highly compressed, so it is not a good playing and editing format. Some MOV video player and editing software can not handle this MOV files.

I heard that Pinnacle Studio 14 can natively support 7D MOV files but I have not tested it. You can have a try.

And another solution I recommend is that you convert the 7D footage to the other common format, like MPEG, AVI as that format is easy to edit and play back. That is what I do with my Canon 5D video footage and the results are excellent.

There are rare programs which allows to import and make deal with this high compressed MOV files. Now share the following program which can convert and edit Canon 7D MOV footages perfectly.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%61%75%6E%73%6F%66%74-video-converter-mac&btnI

[Rebecca Parrish]

[marcel franck] “Many of us are using MPEG streamclip to convert to prores for editing in FCP…the native h.264 files that the 7d records to should not be used for editing…I’ve had better results using mpeg streamclip than compressor..mpeg streamclip software is easily found online…hopes this helps.”

Marcel, how do you feel about the quality after prores conversion via MPEG Streamclip? Is this what you are using for final output? Do you see a significant quality hit?

[Colin Stewart]

ok, heres what you do, but this only works if you have final cut studio 6 or higher. Get MPEG Streamclip by squared 5, then just drag your clips into mpeg stream clip. Export to Quicktime or hit command E. then choose AppleProRes 422 as your compressor. turn the quality to 100%, and leave the frame size as it set then hit “make movie”. ITS THAT EASY! It took me forever to figure it out, but it HAS WORKED FOR ME MANY TIMES! I have had no issues, it works wonderfully, is easy to use and it really does work!!!!!! Ive been using this method for over 5 months straight now, never had an issue!

[Roy Roy]

Dear all,

I read couple of your comments and am still not clear with my options. I highly appreciate your help.

I have 7d and I shoot in 1080i 30 frames…I use pinnacle studio 14 to burn DVDs and Blu-Ray..

When I directly drag and edit and burn DVDs, quality is very poor for my DVD it should be other way around with good quality . Some reason, poor quality, video is too big in to watch on HDTV 40, not able to bring it down to 16:9 aspect ratio etc..

After reading your comments, it seems I cannot / should not directly use 7d .Mov files in pinnacle studio 14. instead have to use a convert.

I have windows 7 64 bit, with high end PC can burn Blu-Ray as well..

Can you please suggest to what all I need do to convert(software codec and process /method). PLEASE. thank you