Sinse buying the 7D It's been a complete struggle editing it's files in any kind of editor as we all know.
Anyway I decided, these files need to be wrapped, I might as well shell out and get a good codec, It will save me so much grief. So I got Cineform Neoscene.
Hmm, worked with Sony Vegas pretty well, but I had to move to Premiere Pro, and Premiere and Cineform just didn't get on at all. And Premiere certainly didn't get on with the native 7D files.
So for months I've had to battle with crappy playback in Premiere, making editing painful! I thought, I'll stick with it... won't get final cut, I'm sure Premiere CS5 will work with Cineform.
So today I get CS5, and import some Cineform avi. files. Low and behold it stutters horribly, worse than CS4. I played with the new sequence parameters and playback resolution settings, but nah... no way I could get this smooth. My system isn't even underpowered.
I was pretty convinced my days with Premiere were numbered now, but I thought it might be a laugh to see how it copes with native H.264 files from the 7D. Even Sony Vegas would grind to a halt with those files.
I hit play, and honestly, to my shock... Premiere played the files back perfectly! I sat up from my seat, had a go at playing back full res... still smooth. Had a go adding some effects and cross dissolves, 'cmon, this'll stop it.... plays smooth!
Crazy huh? I'm not sure what they've done, but before these native files were just useless in an NLE, but now they are the perfect editing format for Premiere!
I'm just annoyed I shelled out for Cineform for it to be pretty useless with CS4, and uttlerly useless and obsolete with CS5.
So people, If you plan on using Premiere to edit your canon video. DON'T wrap your files with Cineform anymore, because from what I can see... editing natively is a far quicker and more useable method!
Not sure how FCP copes with the Canon mov files, and I know Vegas can't really cope. So right now... adobe is the way to go for editing Canon movies!
