Offline-Online Editing

[Michael Gissing]

7D doesn’t have timecode but does record time of day info that Log & Transfer converts into timecode.

Search for Shane Ross’s excellent tutorials. He has two that deal with correct workflow procedure to L&T and then then the offline/ online process for file based projects.

[Jeremy Garchow]

BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make disk images of your Canon media cards, otherwise theres a chance the offline/online from Canon cameras wont work with the log and transfer plugin.

HMC150 disk images aren’t necessary, you can use normal file copy procedures (preferably shotput pro).

[Michael Griggs]

“PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make disk images of your Canon media cards”

That is what Canon says on their website “how to” for ingesting to FCP via their plug-in…..but what if you DON’T have the disk image version??

I recently received footage shot on a 7D, but the files were copied off the card onto a hdd, instead of the recommended creation of a disk image. While I am still able to access all the movies (and subsequently used Compressor to convert to ProRes), FCP’s Log & Transfer refuses to recognize the file structure of the folder with the Canon footage.

I get the wonderful error message: “”Canon 7D Footage” contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.”

Am I missing something?? I’ve installed Canon’s E1 plugin, and I’m using FCP 7.

I can still use the footage via Compressor conversion, but, as I understand it, the E1 plugin and FCP ingest via L&R uses the camera’s timestamp to convert to timecode. This would be REALLY helpful!

To boil it down…..

Am I screwed because the Canon footage is NOT in the recommended disk image format?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Griggs] “but what if you DON’T have the disk image version??”

I posted about this. I used tools from VideoToolShed to get me back up and running. Check this out and be sure to read the comments:

https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/4109/a-few-words-of-warning-for-the-eos-movie-plugine1-for-final-cut-pro-users

And no, you aren’t missing anything, it’s a narsty bug.

[Michael Griggs] “I can still use the footage via Compressor conversion, but, as I understand it, the E1 plugin and FCP ingest via L&R uses the camera’s timestamp to convert to timecode. This would be REALLY helpful!”

Tools form VideoToolShed can get you the tc you need form the THM files, but there’s some caveats.

[Michael Griggs] “Am I screwed because the Canon footage is NOT in the recommended disk image format?”

Not all is lost.