Canon 7D complete workflow with Final Cut Pro :: Part 1 of 2

[Gvillalba]

thanks for much for these two tutorials. I followed your steps and everything works fine. I'm editing 7D footage but my concern now is how do I upconvert the footage edited to a better quality than just 720p. Care doing a tutorial on exporting, basically you're going to be doing part 3, exporting.

thanks lot!

[patracompany]

@Gvillalba We might get to another tutorial on exporting eventually but right now we're really busy. We appreciate the suggestion though!

As far as up-scaling 720p footage to 1080p footage, it's not a good idea although it's not really a big deal. If you export a 720p timeline to 1080p, you'll be stretching the pixels to fit the dimensions and therefore will have quality loss. The reason these tutorials show exporting and editing in a 720p format is because of the 60frame footage that is 720p.

[patracompany]

@Gvillalba If you didn't shoot any 60frame footage, and shot only 1080p footage, then you should select 1080p instead of 720p in the converting process. Make sure you setup your final cut sequences to the correct settings. Final cut will prompt you to changes the sequence settings when you drag the footage to the timeline if it doesn't match your footage. Click yes and let it change the sequence settings to match your footage. Edit up your footage, and when you export, it will be 1080p.

[msinstructor]

When choosing yoru compressions settings in StreamClip--you have 1280 x720p is that b/c:

a) that's the workable size you want it to be in Finall Cut

b) that's the size it was shot on the Canon?

c) that's the size of the end product after Final Cut?

Thank you so much!

[patracompany]

@msinstructor The reason we choose 720p (1280x720p) as the compression setting is because the 1280x720p 60frame footage is shot with those dimensions by the canon 7D and 5D. When mixing both the 1080p 24frame footage with the 720p 60frame footage you want to make sure you are not up-scaling anything. It is better to downscale you larger 1920x1080p 24frame footage to 720p instead of up-scaling your 720p footage to 1080p. If you upscale the 720p footage to 1080p, you'll be stretching the pixels.

[msinstructor]

@patracompany Okay, and you did mention in the video--I just didn't realize that was reason here as well. Okay, thanks a lot. 7D on the way, can't wait and your videos have been VERY helpful. Thank you.

[maxpaynev1]

thanks dude.