Canon 7D Importing and Conversion
Many people have been asking me how to convert (aka transcode) Canon 7D footage to ProRez, as the h.264 codec is not optimized for editing, but compression. Once you transcode to ProRez, the video file will become large, and will be, in fact, a better image quality too. H.264 is similar to a Zip file in that way.
I always refer people to this wonderful tutorial by Philip Bloom:
Tutorial for Canon 7D and 5DMkII
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Great tip thanks! MpegStreamclip is working great for me now.
I am curious, however, where you are getting the notion that converting h.264 to Prores will give you better image quality… The best you can ever do when transcoding an image is to not lose quality… but you cannot add image data that isn’t there to begin with. So, even if you’re converting h.264 footage to fully uncompressed, your image quality will look exactly the same as the source but not visually better.
When I have converted 7D footage to Prores, it looks very close to the same quality but not better.
happy to hear your insights
06.17.10 on 2:09 PMthanks!
Video was very helpful! however once I went to choose my compression type, I had nearly 10 times less as many options, and neither “Pro Res 422″ or “Apple XDCAM” were available. Is there a plugin or add on that i am missing? thanks for the help.
07.21.10 on 11:42 PM