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  Alex Ricciardi 12:14 am on October 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Canon 5D ( 16 ), comparison ( 3 ), compressor, DSLR ( 10 ), Editing ( 5 ), eos movie plugin-e1, Final Cut Pro ( 3 ), H.264, media management ( 3 ), mpeg streamclip, showdown ( 2 ), transcoding ( 4 ), tutorials ( 6 ), workflow ( 6 )   

  Transcoding Showdown: The Best 5D Encoder 

  
  As all of us who’ve been working with 5D footage for a while know, transcoding your H.264 camera clips to ProRes is one of the necessary evils of the workflow (while you can now edit the native clips in software like Adobe Premiere CS5 or FCPX, I would argue that transcoding is still a requirement before color correction). What you may not know is that not all transcoders are created equally. I decided to test the transcode time, file sizes and quality of a few different programs, and the results may surprise you. (More …)Tweet
   

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  Alex Ricciardi 10:48 am on April 14, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Canon 5D ( 16 ), Final Cut Pro ( 3 ), H.264, media management ( 3 ), transcoding ( 4 ), troubleshooting ( 5 ), tutorials ( 6 ), workflow ( 6 )   

  Managing 5D Media in Final Cut Pro 7 

  When you’re running a 5D rental house, you get asked a lot of questions. Most of these have to do with the gear itself, but the most important question may be “What do I do with the footage after I’ve shot it?” After all, if you can’t import and edit your footage properly, then that sweet 5D is just an expensive, awesome paperweight. (Seriously, it’s really good at keeping your papers from flying away.)

  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received a Final Cut Pro timeline from someone who shot their project on the 5D and seen this:

  

  RENDER BARS! Sure, it’s tempting to stick your Compact Flash card in a reader and just start dragging clips to your hard drive, but as many of you know, currently Final Cut cannot natively edit the files 5D generates. What’s more, a haphazard approach to copying files is a good recipe for lost media and, worse yet, general chaos once you’ve reached the edit stage.

  So what’s the solution? (More …)

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    Wendy 10:53 am on April 15, 2011 Permalink

    This is the best tutorial I have seen on importing 5D material into FCP. Well done.

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    Jalanda James 1:24 pm on February 2, 2012 Permalink

    Wow! Intense.  Good stuff but a little too complex for me. But you are the real deal;)

    Here’s what I found helpful in my many hours of research.

    Editing Drive
    Raid 0 

    Backup Drive
    Raid 1

    Implementation:
    1. Convert media. I use Mpeg Streamclip. Save these converted files to your Raid 0 drive. 

    2. Save the originals to your Raid 1 drive.

    3. Edit using your Raid 0 drive and editing program of choice. When finished editing send a copy of the project folder to your Raid 1 drive for storing.

    Raid Basics
    Raid can either be configured to share processing power or provide double backup. 

    Raid 0 
    Good for editing because the processing is split between 2 drives. 
    Example
    Working Data ABCDEF
    Drive One Processes  = A,C,E
    Drive Two Processes = B,D,F

    Raid 1
    Mirrors the data from one drive to the next. So you save it once and it’s copied to both drives. 

    Example
    Working Data ABCDEF
    Drive One = ABCDEF
    Drive Two = ABCDEF

    I like Raids as opposed to multiple drives around. I like Glyph Technologies so far because they are made for MAC and are supposedly made for editing. They have great reviews. 

    Good luck. Hope this helps made the editing workflow easier to understand.