Average POTN user 5dmk2 video to share workflow (i put it on smugmug)

hey johnathan,

yeah its definantly better iq on the 5d2 after microadjust!! i do find it to be less contrasty and saturated than other lenses but for what it does its fine... i think ill shoot avalon airshow with the 100-400 and 5d2 and see what i get...

Cheers - nicko

Heres a tip i just discovered for PC USERS...

use windows media player to view your edited h.264 files... i get no jitter...

the nero showtime player is video accelerated, so it works great for playing big h.264 video files, same thing for the coreavc pro mentioned earlier.

for h.264 encoding, the nero encoder is one of the best.

cool dude thanks for that - will give it a shot...

does nero software do the encoding? - what would you output from say cs3 over to nero for encoding?

Are there any good websites / video tutorials on Premiere Pro? I got it as part of the production premium suite and have no idea where to start!

i cant help ya there sorry - i havent used them...

lotsof trial and error got me there in a time when i didnt have a house kids and a business to run... couldnt do it now tho!

will cs3 work with the canon h.264 stuff? afaik, it won't smart render avchd, i think that you need cs4 for that.

nero is basically a bunch of programs that are all put together under one roof, so you can do all kinds of stuff with it... the editing software is very rudimentary, it has a horrible interface, as compared to cs3.

but the nero encoding software is xlnt, i'd rate it better than cs4, which uses the mainconcept h.264 encoder... although the latter is very good in its own right... it's the kind of a situation where you could throw some more bitrate at the mainconcept encoder, and you'd have a hard time telling the results from the nero encoder.

it would be interesting to see if nero can smart render this 5d footage, it's a lot less complex than avchd, canon jacked the bitrate way up to increase the picture quality.

if you are editing on a pc, be aware of the quicktime gamma problem: http://www.dvinfo.net …icktime-h264-problem.html

So Nick,
Great thread here....and you are not alone!! I did one or two short clips but ran into the ol jerky playback using Quicktime - Bought Quicktime Pro and converted the .MOV into .AVI which does a re-encode i think.But the resultant .AVI played smoothly. I too use Windows VISTA and have a pro SmugMug account and I too am a total novice at video processing (Though years ago I used a video capture device to record segments of video and put together with transition). So i'm looking for the best "bang for the buck" processing workflow from the 5D Mk2 videos. Are any of you on Flickr? I posted a short clip on Vimeo here http://www.vimeo.com/2​766516 Cookbook style advice is what I need....since I generaly don't know wtf i'm doing........
Thanks
Harry

Hope this thread doesn't die. Just getting interesting.....Shot another clip and converting to "for the Web" from QuickTimePro produced a neat file with all the pieces in to folder....and it plays without jerk but i'm sure the quality is degraded over how i could've processed it. Anyone try Corel's video app on Windows OS?

sorry dudes ive been out of the loop for a while....

harry - did you leave IS on in your clip? i shot a gig in bad light the other night - i might have to put on a small clip too.. good stuff

if i get a min i can give you 'cookbook' advice for CS3 basic editing but unless you wanna give that a shot - the advice would be useless on other software...

regards
nicko

Thanks Nick but I'm looking for a non-CS solution. Been looking at and using a trail version of Pinnacle Studio 12 Plus......thing is it won't accept the strait from the camera .MOV files as clips for the mivie making....and It downrezzes the whole deal in producing the final movie product.....
Frustrated!!
Seems like one of these PC movie editing software companies would step up to the plate and say hey we can handle your 5D Mk2 movie editing jobs and do it well.....
But nothing!
argh
Harry

Also another good resource for confusion....
http://www.cinema5d.co​m

Just today I figured out a way to edit video using Vegas Movie Studio 9 on my moderately old/not very new at all computer (which can barely play 720p in h.264 format)

I'll make a lower resolution version of the video (640x360) with the same file name as the original, then use that in Vegas to cut and edit the video. When it comes time to make a high quality final product, I'll replace the low res version with the original video and render using that.

For people on slow computers, I suspect this is one of the best ways to deal with a computer that can't play 1080p.

Hi
I discovered this freeware - http://www.erightsoft.​net/SUPER.html#Dnload

It converts the 5D2 MOV files into various formats including WMV etc. So you can edit them in MS Movie Maker.

Cheers!

cool canonised...

just to update... id say all my links to vid are dead... i was on trail for smugmug pro and havent ponied up the dosh not that its out of beta... will do sometime i suppose when ive got the time to actuall play with all my toys