[Declan Smith]

I have installed the plugin but can’t get it to work

I just get

“103EOS7D” contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.

Yet this has all the 7D movs in ?

Any ideas what I am doing wrong ?

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

[Declan Smith]

This is at the start of my workflow. I have obviously made this mistake as I followed the tool tip, which at the time I thought was odd, but as a relative newcomer to Mac / ProRes, I took it at face value.

I have attached a screen shot of MPEG Streamclip, which I use to batch convert canon 7D h.264 files to prores. The Canon EOS 7D plugin for FCP has been released today and in that manual it mentions about setting the field order to none, which makes sense to me.

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

[Declan Smith]

Thanks. And I presume also set it none when transcoding between say h.264 and prores ?

I think my confusion has come from the tool tip in mpeg streamclip.

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

[Declan Smith]

If the two imported tracks are each mono, then set the pan for the left track to -1 and pan the right track to +1. Next select both audio tracks and choose Modify->Stereo Pair. That will then keep them as a stereo pair in your sequence. In terms of rendering, whatever gets sent to the left and right channels is what will make up the exported stereo render. Imagine if you had 6 audio tracks, the final output would be a stereo mix of these,

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

[Declan Smith]

If the effect you are after is to have a box on the screen with the running timecode being displayed, and assuming you want timecode for your edit as opposed to the actual timecode on captured clips (i.e. your edit is say 5 minutes long, start tc=0 end tc=5minutes), then try the following:

Lets assume your master sequence is called master

1. Create a new sequence, call it master-with-tc or something
2. Drag your master sequence into your new sequence (embed it)
3. In the sequence ‘master-with-tc’ select the master sequence, ctrl-click and open in viewer.
4. Now go to effects->Video Filters->Video->Timecode Reader. So this effect is now applied to your ‘master’ sequence but not to all the clips that went into making the sequence.

Job done!

Further more, when you edit your master sequence, your master-with-tc will reflect the changes, so then you have the choice of rendering with master or master-with-tc.

Note also, that the Timecode Reader has some controls you can adjust to taste as well. If you wanted to change the timecode, you could use timecode generator instead .

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

[Declan Smith]

This may be what you need to do, at least, it describes how you can set the timecode for a FCP sequence and export it. I haven’t tried this myself though.

https://ask.metafilter.com/66758/How-do-I-add-time-code-to-a-Quicktime-movie

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

[Declan Smith]

Are you running Snow leopard by any chance ?

Try opening the clips in Quicktime pro 7 (the older version). I have had a similar issue with some clips from a canon 7D where in quicktimeX or FCP, there is some serious blockiness in part of the image. The same clip viewed in the older quicktime is fine. Also, using prores (HQ) the blockiness appears to go, but render the Prores(HQ) back to say ProRes(LT) and the blockiness returns. Still, using the old quicktime is fine.

I posted some stills of my issue here
https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-eos-7d-hd/473812-blockiness-codec-choice.html

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

[Declan Smith]

I don’t believe FCP uses much of the CPU. I have early 2009 mac pro, dual 4-core, snow leopard, and FCS3.

When FCP is running (or rendering) the CPU’s hardly get off the floor. All this CPU power does appears not to be utilised by FCP.

After effects CS4 is much the same, but at least I can fire up multiple rendering versions on the same machine and run the CPU’s flat out to render.

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

[Declan Smith]

That’s the one!! And thanks for the search reference also.

Very many thanks.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / Combustion / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]

ok … maybe user error

Even though I had the clip open in the viewer, when I changed the flag for field dominance to none on the clip properties, the screen didn’t update the change, even if I double clicked the clip. I needed to load a different clip into the viewer first then go back to the one I changed in order for it to update.

However, if I select ‘show excessive luma’ in the viewer, then the interlaced artifacts return. Doing the same thing on the canvas doesn’t make a difference?

Still don’t understand why interlaced artifacts are there at all, considering this is 25P..

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / Combustion / Canon XL2