How to edit? t2i footage

[Rob Manning]

Hello Suley,

Try reading through this author and leading Cow hand, or go to the title bar and search under tutorials for more. There are hundreds of them …https://leaders.creativecow.net/leaders/harrington_richard/

[Pete Burger]

[Suley Suleman] “i was wondering what software is best to edit in i use sony vegas pro but also have Adobe Premiere cs3”

Can’t say anything about Vegas, but did a lot of editing of Canon VDSLR footage in Premiere CS3. What I learned is: doesn’t work properly (well… doesn’t work at all 😉 with native footage.

But if you transcode it to Cineform, DNxHD or ProRes (if you’re on a Mac): it works quite well. With CS5 or CS5.5 you’ll be able to edit natively, but I find working more stable and fluently with transcoded footage, even with the newer Premiere versions.

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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton

[Suley Suleman]

Thanks, what tool would you use to transcode to DNxHD? doing a bit of googleing suggets its an Avid codec, i used windows at the min to transcode.

Thanks
Suley

[Pete Burger]

Yes, DNxHD is a free Avid codec, which can be used by any NLE when installed.
For transcoding, I use most of the time MPEGStreamclip because of it’s batch-transcoding possibilities with multi-processor support.
Another great tool is 5DtoRGB. I don’t know if there is an easy way to batch-transcode with 5DtoRGB on windows machines.

For Mac, there seems to be a solution: https://www.noside.fr/5dtorgb-batch/

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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton

[Marco Falcone]

I don’t want to seem mean, but your footage seems very out of focus. You should fix that next time you film.

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[Suley Suleman]

Marco, your compleatly correct. I only realised it after we shot. It was at a press event and wee pushed for time, we setup quickly and did a test run with the presenter sat down, when the subject sat down, forgot to refocus. Out of intrest what would recomend to do to the clip, ie colour correction or any other tool?

Thanks
Suley