D7000 FCP workflow

bill totolo

bill totolo

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Apologies if this has been covered, my search didn't bring up anything useful.

What is the D7000 to FCP workflow, is MPEG streamclip the only option for transcoding so far?

Thanks,
 
Looks like MPEG Streamclip or Compressor are our options for conversion to, say, ProRes LT. It's somewhat annoying that with the D7000, Aperture will import, catalogue, trim and export video files, but Final Cut's Log & Transfer protests ignorance... while with my (hacked) GF1 the opposite is the case. Frustrating, give that Log & Transfer is so much quicker at AVCHD conversion than anything else I've tried.
 
Oh - come to think - I did give Magic Bullet Grinder a try, but it was pretty slow for me compared to MPEG Streamclip. It looks to me like they gave up on it once the Log & Transfer plugin for Canon EOS was released, even though that has issues if you ever need to relink footage.
 
Guys - what are you talking about????

Copy the files off of the D7000 to your hard drive. Drag files into FCP. Done.

Al you need is a fairly fast Mac to keep up with the codec.
 
FCP doesn't edit h.264 files natively. You have to transcode, hence MPEG streamclip and 5DtoRGB.
Is there something unique about the D7000?
 
I can just import from my D300s to FCP. I don't transcode. I first tried using streamclip but it just made these huge files that wasted a bunch of time.
 
Bill, have you ever tried editing them? I would probably transcode for something serious and longform, but generally, fcp seems to work fine with the D7000 clips.

Some glitches from time to time, but seems to work. Anyway, if you find the whole process too glitchy or if your Mac can't keep up, you can always transcode later, keep the same source clip names and relink to the transcoded clips later on.
 
@ matthew77, I haven't. I'm considering taking the plunge on this camera but wanted some insight. I plan on using it for long form, thus my concerns.
 
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Have no trouble dropping the 720P footage on the timeline and editing with it on a MACBOOK Pro. 1080P taxes the processor, so I transcode with compressor.
 
jc01108 said:
Have no trouble dropping the 720P footage on the timeline and editing with it on a MACBOOK Pro. 1080P taxes the processor, so I transcode with compressor.
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Same here. 1080p native out of camera is too much for my old Core Duo to handle. If I transcode in Mpegstreamclip with ProRes LT, it works great.

Even AIC from Mpegstreamclip doesn't edit as effectively in FCP as ProRes LT.
 
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