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Shooting Feature on D7
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Although CS5 has great playback of native footage due to the Mercury Playback Engine, I continue to use Cineform’s NeoScene. This is a wavelet-based transcoder that is relatively light on HDD usage. Also, their interpolation from 4:2:0 Canon native to 4:2:2 color space seems to give more leeway when doing CC-ing.
But from what I’ve seen/heard ProRes 422 should do the same thing.
What are you more concerned with – the transcoding process or the ability to add metadata to it?
Richard van den Boogaard
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The Canon plugin works well with Log and Transfer. It’s the fastest way to bring the H264 format of the 7D into FCP as directly as ProRes. It also has the added and extremely useful benefit of translating the camera’s time of day recording into a timecode track, its the only ingest system for this format that currently does this.
The audio on the 7D is inadequate for a feature. PluralEyes works well but I’d still use a slate for better organisation.
Your big problem will be if the location crew doesn’t follow a workflow that is organised.
The most reliable way to bring the files from the CF card to a drive is to use Disk Utility to record a New Image. This should then duplicate this to another drive for security. You and they need to get together and decide on a suitable workflow these files and associated audio tracks, renaming and putting them in folders so that you aren’t left with a massive task of trying find what goes what before you start to edit.
Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Actually both, I wondered simply if there’s the same kind of plug in than for the Sony EX1, so you can just preview, set in &out points and off you go…converting the files into ProRes for FCP.
It’s mainly the work flow I was worried about – cause it will be certainly more than 1000 Takes.Sascha
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Thanx, that was kind of the description and answer I was looking for.
Can you explain the whole Disk Utility, Workflow thing again.
I am not sure I quiet got it.
Thanx a lot !
I really appreciate it!Sascha
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Pity, the link is not working 🙁
Sascha
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Very simple. I keep an alias of the Disk Utility app (the original is in the Mac OSX Utilities folder) on my desk top.
Plug the card reader with CF card into the computer. Open Disk Utility select the card in the top left window then click “New Image” in the top menu bar. Decide where you want to put it. You will have all the necessary data, it’s a perfect replica of the CF card.You can rename the default “Canon EOS” copy as a scene number or whatever works best for you, I’d be asking them to then put this in a folder with a suitable name and the relevant audio files for that scene so its all together. Then copy this folder to a second drive for back up. (This is the new “Clapper / Loader” or 2nd AC’s job in the camera department). It’s often given to the work experience person, they need to know how important the job is and be shown exactly how to do it right.
This will mean its an organised structure for you and save you hours of searching and working out what is what in post.
Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Cheers Mate!
Thanx a lot for your valuable advice.
I do know about the Disk Utility App – but I am still not sure I quiet understand it.
Guess, I just have to give it a shot and try it out.
I will also forward this advice of yours to the DOP and the director!Your helps’s appreciated a lot!
Sascha
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One more question:
In the options in the Disk Utility window, once you clicked on new Disk, what do you choose for “Image Format” and “Encryption”?Sascha
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Disk Utility settings
Give the Save As a relevant name (Scene Number?)
Settings;
Image format – compressed
Encryption – noneOne thing I didn’t mention but its not relevant to the Disk Utility bit.
I use the Canon Plugin in FCP7 on a MacPro Quad with Leopard OS. It works perfectly.
I haven’t upgraded the FCP6.0.6 to FCP7 on my MacBook and I can’t get the Canon Plugin to work in Log and Transfer. I’ve tried everything, the same files on the same disc work in FCP7 on the MacPro. I will need to install FCP7 on the MacBook but need to wait until I have the time to do it properly.Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Good to hear. That sucks, I am still running OSX 10.5.8 and FCP 6.0.6. – does that mean I am in trouble?
Sascha
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