General PC vs Mac problem - DSLR .mov to Pro Res(I am PC, client is Mac based).

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Hi, I´ve got a problem. I am shooting movies on canon 60D for some clients.

Until now, every of my client had the same workflow: PC with Premiere CS5 and there was no problem to send them "raw" full quality .mov files.

My new client is 100% Mac based and uses Final Cut Pro, which is absolutely not friendly with .mov files from DSLRs.

Do you guys have any workflow ideas or what is the best way to give him a full quality files?

I´ve heard that Final Cut uses ProRes, but is there any way to get the ProRes from .mov on PC?

Thank you all guys.
 
You can send the RAW files and they can encode them just fine on a Mac. Using the built in importer, MPEG Streamclip (free ware), ClipWrap, Canon even makes their own converter program I think, or ANY of the THOUSANDS of encoders out there available for Macs editing Canon Footy.
If the client has FCP X or Adobe Premier then can edit those files natively as well.
My suggestion is to give them the native files, dont bother with encoding them on a PC... its going to be trouble for you to figure out the proper settings and program you'll need, when its a pretty simple drag and drop to convert them on a Mac.

Canon footy has been in a standard format for years and used very well on both platforms, I DOUBT they WONT know how to convert it to a usable format themselves.
 
Thanks for your quick reply.

As I told, this kind of problem comes at me for first time.

The problem is that all of this things should be done on my side(just to minimize their work time).
Does the encoding from .mov to prores take a lot of time? I think it does - which could be a problem in my case.
 
Going to try this 5dtoRGB. Does it work well for you?
It looks it is easy to manipulate.
Will be the result good on mac? I mean, is there any thing which I should be aware of?? Will be the result which I see on my pc similar to guy on mac?

I dont want to send it to my client and got some kind of message:"colors are absolutely out of range" or "there is a speeding issue" or something so..

Thank you both guys for your time and sorry for my english...
 
Ye, but the free version of it... you need to do file by file. It works great, just you need to pay $50 in order to batch.
I think, MPEG STREAMCLIP can now encode ProRes on PCs... I read it somewhere*... but its free to try for yourself.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html
Probably the best is for the OP to do a simple google search for ProRes encoding on PCs... and go from there. (cuz im at a little loss for encoding software on the PC side)
Frankly, if you need to edit and clean up the footage on "your" end. Then go ahead and editing how you usually edit. Its THEN, at the very end you need to figure out which format is best to export it all in... variables I would need to know are:
Does the client want a finished edit?
How does the client want the material delivered (DVD, HD, Blueray, Original files)?
What will be their intentions for the material?
Does the client have CS5.5 Premiere? Cuz you can save and do everything in Premier and simply give them that folder and they would be able to open it and export it/link it to FCP.

I'm an avid mac user, and use several programs for various media types and work flows. But, I use a GH2, so its been a while handeling Canon footy, but we just threw it in MPEG in the past without issue. But I can pretty much use/convert ANY TYPE of common media file type with very little issue with my Mac, using mostly freeware.
If you export into DPX, and I think Macs wont have a problem with it... or worst case, they can use MPEG to convert it to ProRes.
 
daihard said:
Ye, but the free version of it... you need to do file by file. It works great, just you need to pay $50 in order to batch.
Click to expand...

The version of 5DtoRGB that batches is $50 and only available on OSX.

I think, MPEG STREAMCLIP can now encode ProRes on PCs... I read it somewhere*... but its free to try for yourself.
Click to expand...

I just tried it on the latest version of MPEGStreamclip on a Windows platform and it does not encode ProRes files.

Just download 5DtoRGB if you need to have it in ProRes. You'll have to do one file at a time, but it's the only way you'll get it in ProRes on the Windows side.
 
I could never get 5DtoRGB to work on my PC for some reason, everything winds up green. Luckily don't really need it. I send the raw files to my Mac based editor and he encodes them himself.
 
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