7D video Edit: URGENT Help Needed

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Hi guys,

I've currently got a project to complete a short news video suitable for web use.

I shot it using the 7D and have additional audio using external equipment.

What is the best way to edit the footage? I'm having problems viewing the footage out of camera and could do with downsizing them (were shot at 1920-1080 '25) as I don't really need to have HD quality for my final output and due to their nature (dark, HIGH ISO) they would look better downsized anyway. I have Adobe Premiere CS3 but could also use a copy of CS4 if that helps? Is there any software about for me to convert and downsize the clips so that I can edit them easier and view them properly?

I need a simple way of converting all my files from their native format into something editable in premiere.

I'm running a Intel Core Duo T2350 1.86ghz, 2GB Ram. I know that's not ideal but there must be a way to be able to edit this footage somehow if I can downsize?

Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated.

Cheers,
Adam

I am running WINDOWS.
 
I had similar problems editing 5D2 footage on an underpowered PC.
An overclocked quad core solved the problem.

Before that I used Neoscene.
Download the trial version of Neoscene.
You have 7 days to convert all the footage you have before it expires.
Worked a treat on my old Dell and Premiere CS3.
You can easily edit in full HD and downsize the finished video if you wish.
http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
 
Garnock said:
I had similar problems editing 5D2 footage on an underpowered PC.
An overclocked quad core solved the problem.

Before that I used Neoscene.
Download the trial version of Neoscene.
You have 7 days to convert all the footage you have before it expires.
Worked a treat on my old Dell and Premiere CS3.
You can easily edit in full HD and downsize the finished video if you wish.
http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
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I've just literally downloaded that. What's the best settings for converting footage to edit? I.e. file type etc?

Thanks alot
 
I've recently bought Sony Vegas for editing 5D2 video. Seems to do it without too much problem using the files straight out of the camera. Used the 30 day trial first which does not seem to have any restrictions on it.
Rendering to HD does take a while though :)
 
With the converted file from neoscene I can now watch it in real time in premiere and I know how to set the in and out points. Any pointers how to then get that selected clip onto the timeline? I thought it was just drag and drop :s
 
Mines a Q6600 2.4 desktop and copes OK. Guess the preview playback isn't 100% smooth but it does it good enough. I don't have the preview set large though. Output is fine of course.
 
adam* said:
With the converted file from neoscene I can now watch it in real time in premiere and I know how to set the in and out points. Any pointers how to then get that selected clip onto the timeline? I thought it was just drag and drop :s
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Drag and drop worked for me.
I'll have a look for some old Neoscene converted files and try it out on CS3.
I had no problems with the Neoscen files on the old Dell.
If I hadn't decided on a quad core build I would have bought Neoscene.
 
OK guys, another problem now. I've managed to convert my videos to both mpeg2 following the advice and settings in this thread: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=815632 but my computer is struggling to play them in PP (run fine in VLC but that's no help), making editing impossible. I then tried the advice of converting to the p2 format 720p and they work fine, run smooth etc, HOWEVER there's something wrong with the image. I've uploaded a screenshot here: http://www.pbase.com/image/122747108.jpg - does anyone know what the problem is??
 
what you want to be doing is setting up proxies to act as scrubbable editing footage then replace that with you full res footage when you export.

it is inadvisable to down res before you edit and export as it becomes a two step generational loss on the video quality. the cs3 package is more than able to make proxies. Can't tell you how to do it off the top of my head as I have been working in FCP for the last couple of months (not by choice) best thing to do is check out the tutorials on Creativecow.net
 
So in theory I could use the .mxf files which work fine as proxy's for my higher quality mpegs?
 
In all fairness this is a MASSIVE bad of worms.

You've got alot of reading to do, but the long and the short of it is buy a mac or a big **** off quadcore desktop.

http://www.cinema5d.com/viewforum.php?f=29 read here. I've pretty much given up with it. I'm waiting till i have a faster machine. :'(
 
You won't want to edit with Native Canon EOS 7D MOV files, most CPU's bottleneck when scrubbing through these files on a timeline. It's very CPU intensive and not really meant for editing. Do you have access to Adobe Media Encoder? If so that'll help you to convert your files to another friendlier format.

If you don't mind spending a few $, then look into Cineform Neoscene. This is an awesome 4:2:2 codec that's much less processor intensive on NLE's.

Personally,i gave up Cineform,I have been doing a ton of research on this matter lately,found a article(Solution for editing H.264/MOV footages shot by Canon EOS 7D，550D camera),once I downloaded the free install tool I knew I would choose it.
 
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