My 5D MkII PC Workflow

[NextWaveG]

Here's a short guide I put together to help people who are new to the 5D and are interested in editing on their PC.

http://nextwaveg.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-5d-mkii-pc-workflow.html

It's not the only way to edit, but it's the way that works for me.

Hope it helps a few people out.

 

[von Mutius]

My way

My way

Hi, I edit on a PC as well, I use Mpeg-streamclip for transcoding.
It can batch to a lot of different AVI-Codecs. I use Apple-Motion-jpeg A at 100% quality. Encoding is really fast on my I7 about 80% realtime. It generates huge files but who cares .-) I got a raid with 8 Terrabyte ...
I edit on Avid Liquid Chrome EX, very fast solution and no problem to mix any kind of codecs and framesizes regardless if frames or fields with XD-Cam, HDV and SD on the same Timeline without waiting for rendering.
AVID Liquid renders in the background if realtime playback is not possible, so I can continue to edit even when the system is rendering.

By the way I have a PEARC-System with Dual-Boot drives either OSX or Windows XP OR WIN 7. When comparing Finalcut to Liquid, on the same machine I can see how slow Finalcut renders OMG:crybaby: !
I always was told and thought Finalcut Pro would be the best thing ever, now comparing it to the old AVID Liquid I am cured.
A primary and secondary Colorcorrection I render on a full HD timeline in Liquid in about 20 seconds takes about 80 seconds :huh:in FC even being just a primary CC, the same for timewarps and dissolves etc...


Back to work Matthias

 

[UltimoJP]

Thanks! Been trying to find a good work flow for my 5d. Used proxies, tried transcoding, now trying to see if divide frame's gpu decoder will work.