7d Video software

Please recommend a good software, affordable, I can use to start editing .mov files from my 7d.

Thanks!

Forgot to mention, I do have cs4 so I dont know if there might be a plugin I can buy?

First you need to transcode down. I just downloaded MPEG Streamclip and it works great (plus it's free)! Then use Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas, Final cut Pro if you're a MAC user. See this link as the same applies for the 7D https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=624302

Bob Hasty wrote in post #9451191
Please recommend a good software, affordable, I can use to start editing .mov files from my 7d.

Thanks!

First thing to do, rename from .mov to .mp4 so you can disable quicktime. If you don't care too much about previews in real time, you can skip the transcoding. if not, link above or megui. If you have an nvidia gtx 285 graphics card, just download the premiere pro 4.2 update, and you'll get hardware acceleration, which means no need to ever transcode.

Heres what I have computer wise. Its a pc

Pent 4 cpu 3ghz
2.99 ghz 2g ram

Not sure of the video card I bought when I got this computer a few years ago but I went with the best for photo editing so that should work. Hopefully my computer has enough muscle to edit videos, cant afford a new one right now.

I have no video editing software right now so upgrading is not an option I'm guessing. From what I've gathered I'd need to download that streamclip and buy some software correct?

Thx for the help!

Depending on the type of editing you plan on doing, yes you'll need some decent editing software. I mean there's always Windows Movie Maker but that stuff is garbage unless you're just trying to make some VERY basic and VERY limited videos. If you're wanting to do some decent editing you'll need to skip WMM.

Bob Hasty wrote in post #9451898
Heres what I have computer wise. Its a pc

Pent 4 cpu 3ghz
2.99 ghz 2g ram

Not sure of the video card I bought when I got this computer a few years ago but I went with the best for photo editing so that should work. Hopefully my computer has enough muscle to edit videos, cant afford a new one right now.

I have no video editing software right now so upgrading is not an option I'm guessing. From what I've gathered I'd need to download that streamclip and buy some software correct?

Thx for the help!

Sorry, your computer probably can't even play 720p, let alone edit 720p... and forget about 1080p. Unless you didn't properly state your computer. Chances are, if it's more than 4 years old now, it's pretty much useless.

basroil wrote in post #9452678
Sorry, your computer probably can't even play 720p, let alone edit 720p... and forget about 1080p. Unless you didn't properly state your computer. Chances are, if it's more than 4 years old now, it's pretty much useless.

What do you recommend for a computer if I were to get one? PC with what? inside or maybe a mac this time?

And what does my computer need to play/edit 1080p? More ram or what?

Bob Hasty wrote in post #9453444
What do you recommend for a computer if I were to get one? PC with what? inside or maybe a mac this time? And what does my computer need to play/edit 1080p? More ram or what?

Your best performance will be an i7-based computer, but you can still edit with even a dual-core, provided it is of sufficient speed. Even my MacBook Air (1.66 ghz Core 2 Duo) plays my 5Dii video files without any dropped frames. But I don't do any editing with it - for that I have a quad-core and used Final Cut Express.

I have a AMD 7750 dual core 2.70 ghz, 4 GB RAM on a 64 bit HP machine that I bought around October last year. It will run editing software fine. Rendering takes a while though. Wouldn't mind a quad core.

ok thanks everyone, looking at bestbuy the new i7 super hp computer is about $1300 O:

Bob Hasty wrote in post #9454002
ok thanks everyone, looking at bestbuy the new i7 super hp computer is about $1300 O:

You know you can find i7 based computers for about $1k right? Check out the dell studio xps 8100. i7 upgrade+8gb ram = ~1050. You can spend the other 250 on a 23" 1080p (IPS) screen