[Jacob Burghart]

i’ve been traveling in pretty hectic situations with the AF100 and the best lens I’ve found is this.
14-50mm f/2.8-3.5 Vario-Elmarit Aspherical MEGA O.I.S. Lens. you need a 4/3 to micro 4/3 adapter. 14-50 is enough range for most situations, if you need the light you can stay wide and you’ve got a nice 2.8 and the O.I.S. works. I’ve taken this into the Jungles of Congo, Riots in Egypt, and Snowboarding in New Zealand.

That being said it’s not perfect and I’m still looking for something better. So keep the suggestions coming. I need speed, range, and stabilization.

Jake

[Jacob Burghart]

the make offline way didn’t work for me in FCP 7

but i figured another way out.

make sure you don’t have in or out points set on any of your clips.
then select all and drag to a timeline.
then select all in the timeline and go to modify and select stereo pair, which should make it mono if it’s already stereo.
now click on one audio track and pan it to 0
then copy that track
select all in the timeline again
and paste attributes – pan.
now drag them all back to a new bin, that you can call dual mono or something.
it will take awhile to create master clips, but at least it’s doing all the time consuming stuff on it’s own.
and when it’s done you can delete the original master clips if you want.

Jake

[Jacob Burghart]

Yes. I understand 7D does not have timecode, Final Cut Pro reads the camera’s metadata and makes a pretty good guess at giving your clips time of day time code. It’s good enough to get an idea of a sync point when shooting time of day on the HVX. I understand this.

Pro Res HQ does seem like overkill, again something I know and part of my problem. However normal Pro Res doesn’t cut it. I can see weird digital artifacting in the highlights when I use normal Pro Res.

The cost of compressor is irrelevant, it comes with FCP. While it may be faster, unless it can read the camera’s metadata to assign time of day to the timecode field, it is useless to me.

Thanks for your reply, but my question still remains.

Is there an efficient way to capture 7D footage using the DVCPRO HD codec, while assigning a time of day to the timecode field?

Jake