[Harry Hanbury]

I had been using FCP for 10 years when FCP X came out, but the bad reviews led me to switch to Adobe Premiere — one big attraction being the ability to edit h264 without transcoding to a format like ProRes422, which eats up way too much hard drive space. I mostly shoot on Canon DLSRs, so having a good, fast workflow for h264 was critical. BUT, and this is my question, someone told me they heard a rumor that around the same time FCPX came out, some 3rd party developer also came out with a plugin that allows you to work with h264 natively in FCP without a lot of trouble. Have any of you heard of such a thing? I still have the need to edit in FCP7 for some projects and it would still be a big help not to have to transcode.

Failing that, can anyone recommend a process for transcoding from h264 that is FAST and a codec that doesn’t take up so much space as ProRes. I’ve tried XDCAM 35mbps, and that’s looked pretty good.

Thanks,
Harry

[Harry Hanbury]

Wow, that’s a pretty lame way to do it. In FCP you just use the keyboard shortcut command-. and the audio pans center. I hope Adobe improves this.