[Joel Godin]

I had the same problem. This ‘free’ plugin was resource heavy and buggy as hello.
Had to power off to close the iMac. Never had to do that before.
Then, deleted that bad boy for good.

[Joel Godin]

I found the same thing as Frank. In other words “I second this lack of motion”.

[Joel Godin]

Sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse. I was explaining how I do it and it works
badly, hence the subtitle “How not to do it”.

H.264 is compressed and can’t be used in the FC because FC has to uncompress on
playback in the timeline and it will not be able to keep up, and will give you choppy playback (plus other technical reasons).
H.264 has to be converted (or uncompressed) before bringing into FC as an asset.
Here’s an excellent tutorial from Chris Fenwick (bookmark his website, lots of great stuff):
https://chrisfenwick.com/home/2010/2/25/tutorial-converting-5d-and-7d-movies.html#comment7687043

This is for those that have a Final Cut version less than 6.06 and not an intel machine with OSX 10.6.2 or later.
Those with FC 6.06 (or later) and an intel Mac with OSX 10.6.2 (or later)
can now use the Canon 7D Final Cut Pro plugin on Canon’s site here:
https://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=19356

[Joel Godin]

This explains a lot.
Here’s how I’ve been doing it, and getting away with it (or “How Not to Do it”)

Canon 7D, import files with Lexar 800 fire wire CF reader onto Media disk,
Import files into FCP7 browser,
Mark and drop in Sequence,
Find out transitions don’t work so do Opacity Ramps manually,
Kind of choppy, but Rendering out seems to work except to Quicktime (there you get some
weird green blanks once in awhile, but using Quicktime conversion h.264 seems to work.
Scratch head and say, “well, I guess they don’t have all the bugs worked out of the FCP yet”
and go shoot some more great HD footage.

[Joel Godin]

Hello Jon,

You got it figured out. FCE will not work well with 24p. It will try but it will drop frames or become choppy. That is why I had to go to Pro. I was handed 24p material, and FCE would not cut it.

[Joel Godin]

I was looking all over the web for this answer, thanks.
To help others, I’ve included a pic.

[Joel Godin]

Here’s another good tutorial on YouTube for tracking.

[Joel Godin]

Thanks, appreciate the come back..

Regards

[Joel Godin]

Can you detail the steps needed to do this a little more? I’m having the same issue.

Thanks in Advance