[Declan Smith]

I did a quick tutorial on this, hope it\’s of use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKTl7U-SBo

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

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[Declan Smith]

We were trying to keep file sizes down so we could do this over the Internet, however, we have wasted enough time doing this and the quality drops too much for my liking.

Excellent advice, image sequence is what I used to move stuff in and out of combustion. I should have thought of this before but sometimes you just can’t see the wood for the trees!

Thanks for the help.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

Hi David
I have not used premiere pro and therefore can’t really comment on the premiere pro workflow. However, any editing system is going to struggle with h.264 files as they are in a delivery format not an editing format.

So my advice would be to convert them into an appropriate editing format that suits your workflow. In addition, I would adopt a strategy to back up your source material. This, apart from giving you piece of mind in the event of a data loss, gives you options later to transcode to a different codec if needed.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

The .THM files contain the meta data and thumbnail JPEG for each of the MOV files created. You must have both of these in place for Log & Transfer to correctly identify the directory as being one containing canon media. You get the same error message for either incorrect directory structure or missing media / THM files.

The only other thing I would do, is try copying over say just one MOV and THM file into the correct directory structure and seeing if will recognise that. Also, confirm that the plugin installed correctly by seeing if it come up in the preferences pane of the LOg & Transfer window.

Below is a screen grab of the kind of structure I meant and the THM / MOV files.

Apart from that, I can’t replicate the problem. My problem was first not having the THM files, and secondly not having the expected directory structure.

***** ALSO Make sure that the directory you select when adding from the Log & Transfer window is not lower down than DCIM or more than one dir up from DCIM ****

i.e. Given My Directory structure is this:

PROJECTS -> Slimbridge -> DCIM -> 100EOS7D

Then when clicking Add Volume from the log and Transfer window:

Selecting PROJECTS will fail
Selecting Slimbridge will work
Selecting DCIM will work
Selecting 100EOS7D will fail

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

Things to try:

1. Make sure your directory structure is like this

/DCIM/100EOS7D

where is some top level folder. The plugin seems to be a bit particular about the directory layout.

2. Make sure that you don’t have any other files in other formats, in the directory. Only have files that came from the camera.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

There is a thread on DSLR Video….

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/280/920

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

I totally agree with you. I should have qualified what I said; I was referring to the transcoding speed. I don’t see any particular speed difference between mpeg streamclip and canon plugin, but from an end to end workflow, definetly faster, better and easier, in my opinion. I like the fact that the transcoded clips are linked to the source material in fcp.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

I don’t think it us any faster it better quality than mpeg streamclip, but once integrated into the log and transfer window, you can now link your media clips to the source material in fcp.

I have put together a short workflow tutorial that may be of interest. I dud this as I wanted a similar workflow to tape and be able to backup and catalog my sd captured clips.

https://bit.ly/9JC7GA

hope this is of some use.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

Hi Tom

Unfortunately MPEG stream-clip only allows selection of Upper or Lower. I think the main problem I was facing was with the sequence settings, as any motion that I had introduced (such as zooms etc) has what looked like interlaced artifacts appearing, but when set to none, it was fine.

Thanks for you help on this.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

Ok found out what was wrong.

1. You must have the .THM files to go with the video, otherwise the plugin won’t recognise the clip.
2. You can’t trick it by just creating a .THM from a text editor, this will cause FCP to crash
3. If you have lost the .THM files (like I have) you can just copy a working one to the same name as the movie file, but with a .THM extension. The picture and exif info will be wrong but if will show up in the log and transfer window.

Anyone know how to recreate the .THM files properly ?

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2