Why EOS plugin?

Chris@SFP

Chris@SFP

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Just got my 550D last week and did some test this weekend to see how it holds up against my EX1.

But one thing that had such a hype was the release of the EOS plugin for FCP..

Why would anyone use it? There seem to be a native support for this cam under snow leopard and I could just drag the files straight to the timeline.. (also works in iMovie right from the card..) Going to check with the folks over at Apple this week but as I see it.. there is realy no need for the plugin.. unless you want the footage in ProRes just to have it eat up more space on you drive?

Still you need to use Cinematools if you want to conform from 50/60p -> 25/30p with slowmotion.. but thats is just a click away..

Im impressed with the workflow even if im not that impressed with the camera.. but for it´s price it´s just awsome!
 
It's been said time and time again, you can natively edit the files if you have a very powerful machine, but for us lesser mortals (and most people with half a brain) you'll need to transcode it into a codec that is designed for editing.

H.264 is a delivery format, designed for high quality web streaming and videos, and as such does funky stuff like frame reordering that NLEs like Avid, Premier and FCP don't like.
 
Actually, you can edit H.264 pretty easily and smoothly in FCP, if all that you're doing is cutting. But once you start adding filters and effects onto clips, you will have to render every time that you make a change to those clips; no real-time preview like with ProRes. This becomes quite annoying and time-consuming, as H.264 is especially processor-intensive to encode.
 
ydgmdlu said:
Actually, you can edit H.264 pretty easily and smoothly in FCP, if all that you're doing is cutting. But once you start adding filters and effects onto clips, you will have to render every time that you make a change to those clips; no real-time preview like with ProRes. This becomes quite annoying and time-consuming, as H.264 is especially processor-intensive to encode.
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Yeah.. but on the other hand.. with prores you need a faster harddisk system due to the bitrate stream after just 3-4 prores streams.. (pic-in-pic asf)
So when I did my test i acculay prefeerd to keep the h.264 codec (working on a mbp 2.8ghz with just an external firewire drive) And the drive is the first thing to cause a framdrop when running multiple prores streams :/

But im beginging to see the value of a plugin for lets say, mac pro users with a raid system (that shoots on these small cameras if that user excist ;)
 
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