So according to a post on planet5d yesterday, Canon will soon (in participation with apple) be releasing a plugin for final cut systems.
The plugin will allow the final cut pro ‘log and transfer’ utility to open camera cards and import/ingest clips, adding custom meta data etc. For thos of you who have used log and transfer for panasonic p2, or Sony’s XDCAM Ex the interface will be very similar.
With the time it takes my trusty old 4 core mac pro to convert these clips to prores, I should be able to build a better fruit bat.
Apple has not released the download yet, but we are assured it is free.
So recently I’ve been shooting like a bandit with the 7D and while its nice to not have to pull vision of tape at real time, the h.264 compressed files do take a while to process. Not only are they extremely processor intensive, there doesn’t seem to be a one stop solution for HDSLR post workflow.
I use MPEG streamclip for converting h.264 to prores 422, and then pipe the output in to QtChange which allows you to enter specific timecode from your slate. While it is a ‘workable’ solution, it is certainly not elegant.
Enter Gluetools…
Gluetools apparently are soon releasing a plugin for final cut pro that will add ‘log and transfer’ functionality to HDSLR memory cards, but it is so much more than that, allowing you to view/edit metadata (in a canon video file?) use the date/time stamp as start timecode, and heaps more.
This is the new Blog, where i will be adding a little each week.
Got a new domain with crazy domains… I also got hosting with them, it was 60 bucks for the domain and 1 gb of space for two years, i figure that’ll be more than enough for everything I will do.
The UI on the web hosting sucks though, but it will have to do, not like i can get a refund now!
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