Has anyone used log and transfer in FCP7 with a Canon t4i? How did you do it?

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Has anyone used log and transfer in FCP7 with a Canon t4i? How did you do it?

Posted by Dale Long on February 16, 2013 at 3:48 pm

So I have been using a Canon 7D for a few years with FCP 7 and loved log and transfer, mainly because of the simple feature where it appended the frame rate to the filename when it created the pro res files to make it easy to sort my 60 fps footage for batch conforming to 29.97 in cinema tools.

I recently bought a Canon Rebel t4i, but now log and transfer doesn’t recognize the files.

I tried a trick I found online to modify the .plist file of the eos plugin to include the t4i but it didn’t work.

I have searched for hours, but if you’ve tried to solve this you already know that it appears that someone gamed google on this issue and the first 100 pages of answers are spam for something called the ‘Pavtube HD Video Converter’, which appears to be garbage, and also $30.

So it seems everyone is using mpeg streamclip, which sucks for me because I have to sort my clips by framerate manually. Whatthat means is if I have 100 files shot in 24 and 60, I ave to load the original camera files in to FCP, sort by framerate, then manually go and put all the 60fps files in their own folder. It takes forever

Has ANYONE gotten log and transfer in FCP 7 to recognize files from the t4i? I really want to maintain my old workflow with my clips labelled by framerate.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Locke replied 10 years, 9 months ago 10 Members · 27 Replies
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Tony Brittan
February 16, 2013 at 4:02 pm

T4i is a great cam but I haven’t logged and tranfered as I use Magic Bullet Grinder to process all of my DSLR clips. It’s really awesome. 64bit and muti-core aware so it’s fast too. It’s around $50 but well worth it. You can do custom file naming, batches, and it’ll even do proxy versions at them same time for you. Resize and all of that is optional as well. Highly recommend it.

Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions
Posted from iPad, please excuse typos!

Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Neil Patience
February 16, 2013 at 5:11 pm

Which version of the Canon tool are you using ? My reason for asking is that I have a 550D (T3i) and the original release worked fine with the plist modification.
Then Canon updated it and indeed it would not work any more with the T3i however the latest version, which I got from the 5DMKIII software page now works again with the same plist mod as before. It seems likely the T4i would be the same ?

So download the latest version, mod the file, I believe you heave to use 650D not t4i in the file and hopefully, like me, yours will work again.

best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv

8 Core MacPro, Kona 3, Tangent Wave, Mackie Universal Symphony 6.5 FCP7
i7 2.7 Gig MBP (non retina) 16Gigs Ram Blackmagic Monitor Mini Symphony 6.5 FCP7
Dale Long
February 17, 2013 at 12:21 am

Hey Neil

Thanks for getting back to me. Can you post your .plist file for me? Maybe my syntax is bad? I’m using E1 plugin version 1.4, and I’m still having no luck after I modified my plist to look like this (I added 650D and REBEL 650D):

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/bAyFwqp.png[/IMG]
Dale Long
February 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm

Hey.

I took a look at this, it should do the trick, although I don’t see framerate as a renaming option.

I assume the workflow would be to sort by framerate, remove the 24fps clips, then do a custom name for that part of the batch?

What’s your grinder workflow?
Neil Patience
February 18, 2013 at 9:52 pm

Hi Dale

sorry it has taken me a while to reply, real work getting in way of Cow posting – whatever next!

I dont know if having 2 x 650D’s with the rebel is adding to its confusion.

my plist file is below: In theory just change my 550D to 650 D and hopefully it will work. Hope that helps.

Edit: just noticed because I cut and paste the file it has filtered out a bunch of lines in the file.
So added a screen grab as well.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “https://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>

6D

Canon EOS 6D

1D C

Canon EOS-1D C

60D

Canon EOS 60D

1D

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV

5D

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

7D

Canon EOS 7D

1D X

Canon EOS-1D X

5DMarkIII

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

550D

Canon EOS 550D

best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv

8 Core MacPro, Kona 3, Tangent Wave, Mackie Universal Symphony 6.5 FCP7
i7 2.7 Gig MBP (non retina) 16Gigs Ram Blackmagic Monitor Mini Symphony 6.5 FCP7
Dale Long
February 23, 2013 at 2:09 pm

Well, modifying the plist to add t4i or 650 D doesn’t seem to work. It just doesn’t see the files. I guess I’ll use grinder until Canon addresses this.

Thanks for your help.
John Sheatsley
March 13, 2013 at 3:51 pm

Hey guys,

I finally got it to work! First, you have to download the latest version of the E-1 plugin from Canon here:
https://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/professional/professional_cameras/eos_digital_slr_cameras/eos_1d_mark_iii#DriversAndSoftware

Choose your operating system, download and install (make sure FCP isn’t open) Once you’ve installed the plug-in, navigate to the cameras.plist file (it’s in the same location as before). Here’s what my plist looks like:

Save the file, open FCP, and you should be good to go.

John
John Sheatsley
March 13, 2013 at 3:54 pm

Correction to my previous post…here’s the link to grab the E-1 Plugin:

Daw Frame
May 5, 2013 at 9:50 pm

Hi, I’ve spent hours and still can’t get it to work. I am using Lion ver. 10.7.5, FCP ver. 7.03 and have a Canon T3i. I can’t get an old version of the Canon E1 plug-in (thought this might help as others have been successful with earlier versions) and have been trying with the latest version, which is 1.4 and having NO success. I would like to delete the E1 plug-in that I have and start from scratch. I guess I can just delete the MIO file? would that be enough?
I believe you are working with vers. 1.4? if so, is there no way to provide a copy of the entire working plist that I could simply copy and paste? as spaces etc. are so critical.
As it is, the files appear in FCP for L&T, but when I queue them, I get an exclamation mark in a red background (essentially signifying an error) and they simply will not ingest correctly, so no viable product.
Rather desperate to get this to work.