FCP user thinking of switching … ProRes? or straight from Camera?

[Declan Smith]

It’s on the Canon Website, just a little hidden!!

Try this:

https://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_7d#DriversAndSoftware

Select Drivers & Software

Next select Mac OS X Snow Leopard as the operating system (it’s only under here)

Then expand Software, and you should see EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro 1.6 under that.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase

“it’s either binary or it’s not”

[Dallas Kruse]

Ah yes. I was under “Mavericks”.

thank you

Music Producer dabbling in Video.
FCP 7. Adobe CS6.
Canon T3i.

[Jp Pelc]

[dallas kruse] “My question is … like FCP 7, do I need to transcode my video files before I start to edit in Premiere CC/Premiere CS6 for better editing/rendering?”

Yes and no. In my experience it just depends on how much footage your project will have. If it’s a relatively small project, the raw camera files will do just fine. However, as you probably know h.264 is an interframe codec, meaning most frames are referencing other frames around it. So it is a lot of information for your machine to process in order to display a frame. Depending on your specs, once you start to build timelines that are around 10 minutes in length, with multiple video tracks, you might start to experience noticeable lag