100108 Converting Canon 5DMK2 & 7D Footage to Edit

How to Compress Canon 5DMK2 and Canon 7D movies for editing in Final Cut Pro. Special Bonus feature of MPEG Streamclip that is not intuitively obvious to the casual observer. (Sam Brown)
Chris Fenwick
http://chrisfenwick.squarespace.com

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• Final Cut Pro
• Canon 5DMK2
• Canon 7D
• DSLR
• Converting
• Transcoding

[abcdstrange]

At 4:57 you're way off from what you're reading.

[chrisfenwick]

@abcdstrange huh??? I'm not reading anything.

[chrisfenwick]

omcasa... I don't know much about FCE... sorry...

from my new testing I'm doing I CAN tell you this... if you want to cut HDSLR footage the best way to go about it is to avoid final cut all together and move to Premiere Pro. Looks better... no transcoding and uses all your cores... watch my tutorials on my web site.

[nomattermedia]

How come my files take for ever to convert?

[chrisfenwick]

@nomattermedia How LONG are your clips? understandably, longer clips will take longer to compress... on my 2.6GHz laptop I think I can compress in about real time... if I recall. What kind of times are you getting?

[jamesfromwimbledon]

Hi Chris. Great video. Why don't you edit in 1080? Is there any reason why I should or shouldn't? It probably takes longer to convert to 1080?

[chrisfenwick]

@jamesfromwimbledon another bummer with all the other conversion utilities... I have not found a way to force files into 720... thats another reason i like MPEG Streamclip.

[everydayjones]

Thanks so much for making this tutorial! It really helps a lot.

[JasonAlarconFilms]

This is awesome! thanks for the tutorial... off to converting, then hopefully EDITING!

[emk14]

Are...are you Justin Long?

[Devonarmstrongfilms]

Hey, I shot on a 7d and a 60d, and I want to edit the footage without any loss of quality. I tried converting to prores, using mpeg streamclip and while the quality seemed close, there is a noticeable change in color. It turned dark and murky. Do you know anything about this?

Thanks in advance!

[zimmermanbryan]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

[HARLEMSNEWVOICE]

so fucking helpful

[jalfa1]

@abcdstrange

Hi With my downloaded version I do not see all of the compression options such as apple dvc pro hd etc and many others Please advise

[CalclaviaProduction2]

Does this work in Premiere CS4?

[sincitycyclops]

Hello, after much frustration, I ran across your video. Although I am editing in after effects, I think it should work the same. I was using raw video from my 7D and rendering a 5 minute clip took 8 hours and also looked like crap when uploaded to youtube. Don't suppose you have tips for exporting from After Effects somewhere? =D

I have final cut pro but I don't have shake so I use AE.