media streamclip: canon 5d to FCP7

[Warren Eig]

5DtoRGB lets you process at either REC 601, 709 or Full gamma. I don’t think MPEG Streamclip does.

I don’t know what happens when you mix 2.976 with 23.98.

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[Simon Modery]

Hi,
5D to RGB improves the look by counter-balancing the fairly strong compression of the 5D.
Have a look at that:
https://simonmodery.com/2011/05/15/optimising-5d-footage/

However, the improvement is minimal and definitely not worth doing it again.

Mixed frame rates result in interpolated pictures (because the program needs to create frames that are not in the material). Depending on the amount of movement in the footage it might or might not look all right. Footage of a car race suffers more from interpolated frames than a guy talking to camera.
But either way mixed frame rates mean additional render time. So if 50% of the footage is already processed at the wrong frame rate I would probably do the rest in the same way …

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[Raju Bhai]

ok thanks very much

1 more question:

I went ahead and transcoded the clips in 1920 x 1080 unscaled. But my sequence settings on my FCP7 project are 1920 x 1080 with HDTV 1080i aspect ratio. I’ve already edited half the project with this sequence setting. Is that a mismatch? does unscaled mean it’s progressive? and does 1080i mean interlaced?