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Output format from Canon 5D – advise needed!!!
Hi list, can anyone tell me what output setting I should use from FCP where I’ve editing media from a Canon 5D so I can import into Squeeze for conversion to an flv?
Any advice on a workflow would be greatly appeciated…
Warmest,
Kevin
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Hi Kevin,
Had you been editing native Canon footage in FC?
What ever you have done, if your movie plays well in FC, duplicate the sequence, change the sequence codec to Proress and export a Self-contained movie.
You will be able to convert that movie at your convenience with Squeeze or any other application.
rafael -
FC is not ready yet to edit MP4 but I think is just a matter of time.
No so long ago FC was unable to work with any kind of MPEG-2s.
Rafael -
Thanks Rafael, that worked! I appreciate you posting back. One follow up question. Does one edit natively in FCP with Canon 5D media. I ready that people are converting the footage before editing so that playback is smother an realtime effects preview are available.
Thanks again,
Warmest,
Kevin
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Hi Rafael,
Thanks again for posting back. How are people editing Canon footage then. My project seems to haveworked buut he playback was a little choppy. It exported fine to Pro Res though. Would one batch convert the footage before importing to FCP?
Warmest.
Kevin
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Sorry I hit the Post Direct button too fast.
[Kevin OHanlon] ” One follow up question. Does one edit natively in FCP with Canon 5D media. I ready that people are converting the footage before editing so that playback is smother an realtime effects preview are available. “
I asked you because I was curious about your experience editing native.
What I heard so far are bad experiences.
The problem of h264 is that is a kind of GOPs based format.
Like MPEG-2 but with even more complex options (MPEG-2 have become a flavor of MP4).
For FC is much more complicated to manage this than any of the traditional Intraframe video codex.
I guess that if you basically cut and play your time-line FC do it well.
And I guess that the complications starts from the moment you try to mix or apply any kind of effect.
With ProRess you avoid all this
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It works better if you convert to Pro-Res before editing. I can edit natively, but it’s very limiting. I cannot see my timeline on my external monitor unless I convert first. It is also very slow if I don’t convert first.
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Hi Brent,
Thanks for sharing our experience.
I’m not working with that footage but is good to be ready for any thing.
Rafael -
How does one batch convert his Canon 5D footage? Does he use Apple Compressor?
keith
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So since h.264 is a delivery format, not an editing format I can open the files in the QT Pro Player and convert to an easy setup match such as pro res, but I can’t batch process anyone know how?
keith
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