Offline Editing 60D Footage

vladwolodarsky

vladwolodarsky

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Hi all,

I need to wrap up a few projects to get enough dough to eventually buy a new editing system. I just picked up a 60D yesterday and I need to find a workflow that is reasonable for my Dual 1.8 Ghz Power PC with 2.5 GB of ram. I know; she's almost an artifact.

My machine can actually playback Apple Prores 422. I installed the Canon Final Cut plugins, but I only see the options of using ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 HQ. I don't see the options for Apple ProRes 422 (LT) or Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy). I am using FCP 6.0.6 .

Is there a way to transcode all of my footage to ProRes 422 then online to ProRes 422 HQ? Or would the best method be to transcode everything through mpeg streamclip and reconnect the media later(http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?228044-DSLR-HD-and-editing&p=2154782&viewfull=1#post2154782)?

I'm sure there are some other routes that I am not thinking about. Any info will be greatly appreciated!
 
The new flavors of ProRes are available in FCP7.

In your situation, I would transcode to ProRes 422 and then just finish there. No need to go to HQ unless you have a sequence that is going to be graphics heavy (and even then, I really can't tell the difference between both flavors of ProRes). Even with heavy grading (I'm talking multiple secondaries and ColorFX plugins) the codec does not fall apart.

However, if you really want to reconnect your timeline to HQ you can just offline all your ProRes clips and then batch capture into HQ.
 
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HQ will be a waste of time. Use 422, it'll do everything you need. HQ is for film DI's. 422 supports much higher specs than your 60D records, and it's super great for even graphics heavy stuff.
 
Thank you for the heads up! I did some tests and every thing is alright.

Transcoding takes a lot of time, but she's an old machine. Right now I am working off a USB drive because it's all I have. Do you think a Firewire 800 drive would speed up the prores conversion very much? I think the main issue is the computer's lack of horsepower.
 
USB drive is slowing things down a bit. Part of the process is CPU processing. Part of the process is reading/writing data to/from the hard drive. It'll help.
 
The PowerPC is very underpowered for ProREs encoding. It will take a LONG TIME. An Intel laptop would encode faster than that machine. It is ALL on the processor. And a USB drive will not work for ProRes at all. Gotta be Firewire 800...at least.
 
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