Mike Drew
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Just got to pop in here to say that it is unlikely you’ll be able to process RAW files from any still camera in a video editor. They are designed to be be used as the base for final output to jpeg or tif or other format. You need to open the files in Photoshop, Aperture or Lightroom or the Canon software that came with the camera and export them as jpeg or tif from there. Leave them full size if you want headroom and import those files to FCPX. You should be good to go then.
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Oops, I can see the picture didn’t upload like I thought it would. Anyway, teleconverter and extension tubes are the wat to go.
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I regularly use my trusty 50 f1.8 with a 1.4 teleconverter and extension tubes on my 5D III and I can get pretty tight on critters the size of a ladybug. Cheap and easy. The flower in the picture is about an inch wide. /Users/mike drew’s mac/Desktop/may 1:13 crocus/20130502mikeMD010.JPG
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Ignacio, are you using the batch function in Streamclip?? It’s under the “list” menu. It allows you to drag in as many clips as you want and then it chugs through them one at a time.
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I believe it’s the GoPro Cineform Studio application on your Mac. It’s been a while since I used it but I’m sure that was the vector for updates. You can import clips that way as well but to be honest, I usually just grab them from the folder icon that appears on the desktop when I plug in the camera and copy them to whatever folder I’m using for my event in FCPX.
The phone app is just used to control the camera. Very handy but the wifi on the GoPro really sucks down the battery. -
Fredy, none of this reflects anything in my experience with GoPro 3. I can edit without transcoding, the camera shows up when I plug it in and the firmware update is easy as pie using the GoPro app. I have to think that you maybe got a bad camera or that maybe there’s something you’re inadvertently doing that’s causing your problems.
Good luck. I hope you get it sorted out. I really love my GoPro. -
Hey Fredy, it is very easy – and preferable – to format the card in the camera. Just select format from the menu on the GoPro and you’re done.
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If you already have Nikon glass, get the Nikon. If you shoot Canon now, get the Canon. New firmware will be available shortly for the Canon to enable external recording and the Nikon records sharper images in the camera – though the Canon sharpens just fine in post – but other than that, no real difference.
Unless you’re planning on shooting a remake of Gone With The Wind to be shown on an IMAX screen – in which case, get an actual video-dedicated camera – you’ll be happy with either one. -
Could you use Quicktime 7 – assuming you have it – to capture from your tape? Long time since I used tape but I believe QT will ignore the breaks and just capture the files in the order they appear on the tape.
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I’ll probably get grief for saying this but at low ISOs there is very little difference among all those cameras. The 6D and 5D III are amazing in low light and there is a look to the full-frame sensor that’s hard to beat but really, for all practical purposes, the files from a 60D or 7D will look pretty much the same as from a 6D or 5D III up to about 640 ISO. You can still get a nice, shallow depth of field out of the crop-frame cameras with a fast lens and an ND filter. Hang on to what you’ve got until you really need full-frame. And if the coming 70D and 7D II – if that’s what they end up being called – are as good as they should be, you may not need full frame at all.