Richard Jacana
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Ok, perhaps i got carried away here, 1080p60 footage still takes 2x, so that’s down from 3x and add a quad core machine and you’re down to 1x.
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Give it a try, not sure what cards are supported but I guess you need the latest and greatest for it to work best and all modern cards support Open CL so who knows. I basically have the lowest card as far as specs are concerned and only 256mb of memory.
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That might of been me 🙂 spreading the word around. You results may vary as even though I have a pretty wimpy machine i7 dual not quad core I have a newish graphic card so if your machine is more than a year old, not sure if you’ll get the speed increase.
My guess is that they finally programmed the OS to use the graphics card – like Windows 7 has been doing for the past 2 years 😉
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Just picked this camera up second hand for $500. Has some nifty features but then when I attached it to my Mac and fired up FCP X it didn’t appear as a camera and as we know silly FCP don’t recognize 1080p 60 avchd footage.
So indeed clipwrap is the way to go, you end up with plain old mov files but be aware 1080p 60 files are HUGE when transcoded into ProRes, I use to use 720p 24 and this will be 28gb per hour now with 1080p 60 I am up to 132Gb per hour wow! I’m also pretty sure my brand new mac min dual core i7 struggles with the ProRes footage a little too as the data rate on 720p 24 is a mere 59Mbps vs 293mbps on 1080p 60 – not sure if this would make a difference but my understanding is higher data rate the beefier the machine you need for playback, even with ProRes.
Great little camera but be aware of the storage requirements and possible computer requirements.
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Thanks for the explanation guys. My in and out points did not include the clip in question hence me unable to render it! Perhaps this is a feature 🙂
Works fine now!
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I have the full version of PP CS5. I have tried clicking the Render Effects and Render Entire Work Area but nothing happens.
Are you saying that there is no way to render this H.264 sequence, get rid of the red line for smooth playback, without first having to transcode to Cineform or ProRes?
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But what happens if your machine is having problems playing back footage even with the magic Mercury Engine? I have a 2.6 Ghz 2008 MBP with 6 gigs of ram and an 8600GT graphics card. It can play AVCHD fine but 7D footage is a little choppy and I have to set the playback Resolution to 1/4 and it almost maxes out my poor CPU.
So if I wanted to convert my 7D h.264 footage to an intermediate codec what is Premiers ProRes422 equivalent and how would I do the actual Transcode in PP? (I’ve used the canon plugin for FCP to trancode and it works great)
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Look, it’s faster than my 5200 rpm, 2.5 inch FW800 drive, OK!
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I did search the FCP forums for “NewerTech USB” and don’t see anything. Can you point me to the post/s.
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Funny thing, I was thumbing through some old copies of videomaker magazine (2004) and came across similar ads, probably the same company. I had a good chuckle at the stack of VHS decks and clunky old computer editing system and I too was curious at their mention of “territories”. Perhaps if I sign up they give me some far off line line Greenland or Lesotho!