Footage off Canon 5D Mark II not smooth

[Bob Roberts]

Try transcoding the 5D’s H.264 file to either ProRes or DVCProHD.

[Paul Ravillino]

Transcoding to ProRes worked. Thanks a million.

Why does it need to be converted if it’s a .mov to begin with?

[Shane Ross]

.Mov is a CONTAINER, not a CODEC. H.264 is a playback and delivery codec only, not an editable one. This is stuff you really need to know if you intend to use this camera professionally. You need to know what .movs are and what codecs are and all that technical stuff, if you intend to edit with this format.

Shane

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[Tom Matthies]

The individual frames are quite large. I would guess that the drive on your laptop is struggling to keep up with the playback. Faster external drives might help the playback issues.
Tom

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[Brad Dececco]

Hi All,
I have a similar question abotu working with the 5D Mark II footage. We shot some clips with the Beachtek device which allows you to put xlr mics directly into the camera thus recording sound to the card. I had a boom in one channel and a lav in the other. As we were shooting, I was checking the clips in FCp to make sure the lav was good and I could hear the difference between them markedly.

So now I have converted all my h.264 .mov’s from the camera into Apple’s Pro Res 42w2 codec as instructed but the audio is now linked and the 2 audio tracks are identical. This may be more of a compressor question (I don’t know that much about compressor) but can anyone help me figure out why the audio should have become locked like this? I have to get this project finished up, any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.