ProRes Question – Best Post Workflow for H.264 from Canon 7D

[Rafael Amador]

And what about open the Audio, “Copy” and “Add to Movie” in QT Player?
Don’t need render (just SAVE US).
I’ve tied with QT movies and WAVE audio and it worked.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Gary Adcock]

[Trevor Fernando] “And I wanted to know if it was normal that it took 30 minutes for a 1.5GB clip. “

Trevor. Software Conversions take time, they are not based on the size of the file, but how long was your original clip compared to that 30min conversion time.

my guess is was only a little more that 3x the length of your clip. ( about 10 min’s in my guess).

that is not unreasonable for converting via FW drives on a Laptop.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

[Rafael Amador]

[Trevor Fernando] “So I am asking why you would do one or the other, because a lot of people seem to say things like “h.264 is not an editing codec” without any explanation.
I have done a lot of searching on this topic and all I can dig up are short answers with little detail or clarification as to why people are doing what they do. “
Hi Trevor,
A codec that you don’t know how will react on editing, you can not call him an “editing codec”.
The only problem with h264 is that the NLEs and other software are not yet ready to manageit (MP4).
Remember MPEG-2 just few years ago: you couldn’t do almost nothing in a Mac. Just clic it in the Finder and the ball spun for ages. Now there is not problem to deal with MPEG-2 (a delivery format in his beginning too).
MP4 is much more complex than MPEG-2 and with many variations but I guess the NLE will get ready to manage natively the acquisition flavors (AVC-Intra, AVC-HD, H264,etc).
With H264 in FC, depends of what you try to do, it may works or it may crash.
Anyway the only thing you may lose for trying it is time.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Johnny West]

Try using this plug in for FCP 7 (i think it works for FCP6 as well). Note: This only works when you are capturing for the card or camera using the Log and Transfer. Does anyone out there know the best way to convert these h.264 files if you have already transferred them off the card onto a HD; maybe through the import????

https://software.canon-europe.com/index.asp

Johnny West

[Richard Brooks]

Hi Tom,

Why is it important not to edit in H.264?

I currently shoot on a 550d, the format of my rushes is H.264.

Should i be compressing these rushes to another format first then?

We have had issues with shots going out of sync for no real reason, this may be the reason for this. I am surprised that I have never read that before! Thanks!

[Tom Wolsky]

H.264 is an acquisition and delivery codec not a production codec.

Shane Ross’s Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[David Roth weiss]

[Richard Brooks] “I am surprised that I have never read that before!”

Bad boy!!! You certainly mustn’t have been reading the Cow very often, because this subject is written about several times each day.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Richard Brooks]

Hi,

I wonder if you might be able to help.

An editor has asked for a showreel in the following format,

Final Cut DV Pal, 720 x 576 25fps

We shot in 1080 x 720 or 760 on a 550d DSLR and edited in H.264 as this is the format of the .mov files the 550D shoots in

We have exported out footage in the format requested but the editor says it isn’t quite right and to try exporting it anamorphic but this just made the images ‘squashed’

To be honest, I am just at a loss. Could the fact that we edited in H.264 be a problem? Should we compress to apple pro res or something first?

Yours Confused :-/

Ric

[Richard Brooks]

Hi,

I wonder if you might be able to help.

An editor has asked for a showreel in the following format,

Final Cut DV Pal, 720 x 576 25fps

We shot in 1080 x 720 or 760 on a 550d DSLR AND EDITED IN h.264

We have exported our

[Tom Wolsky]

Editing in H.264 is never a good idea, but I guess it’s done.

720×576 anamorphic is supposed to look squashed; that’s what anamorphic means.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”