Phil Balsdon
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I just went through the 10 usual forums I visit then Googled “CF card problems with HD DSLRs” and visited another 8 websites which discussed card use in HD DSLRs.
I did not find one report of a problem that related to card capacity. Plenty relating to cheap cards, too slow write speed cards and lazy use, (ie not reformatting the card in the camera before re-recording) but not one about this problem due to card capacity.
I use SanDisk Extreme UDMA 32Gb 60Mb/s cards, other guys I know and converse with a lot use 32Gb and 16Gb versions of the same card, none of us have had a single problem, yet. When I do hopefully it won’t be a corrupted file on a 64Gb card with the last two days of shooting on it.
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Why would a SanDisk Extreme Pro / 60mbs / 64Gb card be faster than a SanDisk Extreme Pro / 60mbs / 32Gb or 16Gb card?
We’re talking identical 60Mbs transfer speed cards, here not card capacity.
Why are two smaller identical 60Mbs type cards more efficient than one card twice the size? Because firstly it takes less time to transfer the volume of information and secondly one card can be transferring whilst the second card is loaded into the camera and being used to shoot with whilst the transfer is happening.
If you have to stop production and wait while you transfer all 64Gbs you’re going to loose a lot of production time.
Secondly if something gets corrupted on the card, and it does happen, or a card gets misplaced, that happens too, you’ve got an awful lot more pick-ups to shoot, that is if its at all possible to do pick ups.
One 64Gb card or 2 x 32Gbs cards, I would choose the latter every time.
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Hi Richard,
Did you mean “Log and Transfer” as oppose to “Log and Capture”?Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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Make sure you buy cards that are capable of handling 60MBs or greater. I use Sandisk Extreme very successfully. Sandisk Extreme Pro would be good if you twice the money.
Consider purchasing smaller 16Gb or 32Gb cards rather than 64Gb. The transfer time from 64Gb will be long, with two smaller cards you can be transferring from one card on location whilst shooting to another.
You could also shoot all material from one location / topic to a card and transfer it using an appropriate title then shoot the next location on another card with a new title – this would help organise your workflow.
Finally if something goes wrong or gets lost it’s only half a disaster if using smaller cards.
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Final Cut Express is very much a consumer version of Final Cut Pro. Video formats it can work with are restricted to consumer formats, pretty much DV (PAL & NTSC), HDV and AVCHD.
To maintain the image quality of the Canon HDSLR cameras you need to bring the highly compressed H264 Quicktime files they record to in as a format such as Apple ProRes or maybe AIC. FCE cannot work with these codecs.
In FCP you can log and transfer clips setting in and out points whilst converting the clips to one of these formats. If you use the Canon Movie plugin it will convert the camera’s time of day data to timecode. All other adjustments (grading, audio levels etc.) can then be done in Final Cut Studio to a high degree.
You really need to consider changing up to FCS if you want to get a professional quality end result from these cameras.
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With the US model you don’t get any compatibility with European PAL.
You can get it work with various frame rate / format conversions, that lose some of its original quality and take lots of time in post, but it’ll be an absolute pain.
If you’re producing for the European market buy a PAL format camera, (that by the specs you show will also shoot native NTSC).
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Vimeo has a video tutorial to assist you in obtaining the best quality from Final Cut Pro.
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I just got around to upgrading FCP6 to 7 on my MacBook.
The Canon Movie Plugin works fine now. Nothing else changed.
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“Initially for Windows with a Mac version to follow”
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I just typed “Green screen, chroma key, tutorials” into Google and got 58,100 listings.
Should keep you going for a while.
Try You Tube search for video tutorials too.
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