EOS Movie Plugin-E1

[Jeff Franklin]

What would the appropriate codec be for DSLR footage?

[Natalie Johns]

Hi Declan,

I’ve been using the EOS plug in for a while – but have realized I’ve been having a problem with some clips not coming in in their entirety. Sometimes they are only missing a few seconds – sometimes only a few seconds of a 10min clip comes in. When I notice it’s not in completely – I re-log & transfer the clip from the disc image and it normally goes in second time round… But I’ve got to be very careful to keep a look out for this. Have you experienced this and if so, what is causing it?

Thanks,
natalie

[Singleton Makin]

Yes. This looks like it would be similar for my MarkIV but I am not sure exactly.

I was able from the 5D my friend has to use the plug in I think because the CAMERA mounted from the USB cable or more than likely I can’t remember as it was a while ago we tested this before the firmware update. But I think he used a USB CARD READER which automatically MOUNTS the CARD as a DRIVE.

However, when I use the USB cable with the MARKIV I have noticed it bypasses the MOUNTING as a DISK, and IMAGE CAPTURE or whatever app I use just shows the FILES…and so I get the same ERROR message as the rest of the group.

I find this to be a problem as my NIKON D90 didn’t have this problem…It must be a CANON thing.

Oh so back to the solution. Thanks for posting this for the 7D, can anyone verify what the MARKIV SYSTEM would look like? I really need to use this plug in, and I didn’t wish to just go out and NEED to buy a CARD READER to use it…

I assume this DRAG and DROP to a HOME MADE FILE STRUCTURE is the only BEST CASE work around?

Much thanks again for the SUPPORT on this CANON issue!

Singleton

Singleton Makin
“observe the masses and do the opposite!”

[Ken Evans]

Just found this fix, thanks! The odd thing was I had to create the inner folder first. If I created the DCIM first, it still failed…

I’ve had this problem wuth Panasonic ACVHD cameras too and no amount of directory rebuilding will fix it. Even if you copy the folder structure from a card you have and copy clips onto it the added clips still don’t appear. On occasion I’ve had to use a black magic card to capture in analogue to get around this…very frustrating.

[C. Kauffman]

Just started playing around with the E1 plug in, for the last year I’ve just done MPEGStreamclip with my 5D footage. Let me see if I got this right:
On set: Drag and drop the card director DCIM and MISC folders into a new folder on your desktop. This is your archival master. Card can be re-formatted and shot on again.
In FCP, bring the file created on set into E1, Log and Transfer to whatever codec, ie ProRes, add log notes etc TC will be created from date/time stamp in the THM file
The ProRes or whatever files will live in the Capture Scratch folder, but can be moved into another location, just need to reconnect media in FCP?
That file you initially created on set is your Master.
Bueno?
Also, I have tons of shot footage imported through Bridge CS4 so the THM files came in with the video files. Can I just dump these into DCIM>100EOS5D to use in E1?
In my XDCAM software there’s a CRC option when importing the raw footage from the cards to hardrive that double checks the data for corruption. Anyone found a way to emulate this?
Thanks!

Sony EX1
Canon 5d mark 2
FCP 6.06