Canon FS11, FS10, FS100 and Final Cut Studio 2

+"Does anyone know if iMovie is able to read the footage from the F11's flashdrive, does that mean Final Cut Pro 6 will do it as well or not necessarily? I would like to use my Final Cut Studio 2 to edit the footage."+

iMovie and Final Cut Pro 6 could very well differ in the types of footage, they can read. If say, you had updated iMovie recently to the newest version it could have had increased capability in reading from a SDHC card. Also I use Final Cut Studio (5.1.4) and it seems to read just about any type of camera I hook up to it so I don't see why Final Cut Pro 6 wouldn't read this card, have you tried other cards? But yes, Final Cut Pro should be able to do anything that iMovie is able to do compatibility wise, unless iMovie is newer then your Final Cut version.

+"what did you think of the cameras as a whole"+

if you are referring to Canon cameras, then I have used a wide variety of them including the GL2 which I thought was a fabulous camera. Canon, in my opinion, is the best type of cameras you can find on the market and available to the general public.

Hope this helps,
-Bryan

I recently bought the FS10, and so far the best way I've found to import the footage from the camcorder is via a freeware app called "MPEG Streamclip". It can batch convert the videos on the flash drive from the .MOD format to just about anything. So I just convert it to DV and it takes about the time it would to copy all the files to my harddrive. I don't really see the inability to use Final Cut's log and capture with the FS10 as that big of a problem, as this process is MUCH preferable to waiting for tape captures.

After conversion, you don't log and capture. You just import it. Or drag it from the finder into FCP's browser...

Patrick

I'm also looking at the Canon (and Panasonic DV) camcorders. Does using MPEG Streamclip with the FS10 make the output compatible with imovie06? How much compression/quality loss is there?

When you mention 'waiting for tape captures' - are you referring to analog to digital captures or transfering DV? (All my editing has been with analog Hi8-XR - captured on pc, converted then transferred to the mac - but I lose quite a bit of quality and it takes hours (about 2hours of rendering/converting per hour of video)

Thank you

TM

Can't you just get a DIgital 8 Camcorder off eBay for under $200 and capture DV in realtime in FCP?

Patrick

Patrick Sheffield wrote:
Can't you just get a DIgital 8 Camcorder off eBay for under $200 and capture DV in realtime in FCP?

Patrick

I had just been contemplating that! However A (new) Canopus 55 can be had at $200....

Good idea Pat, thank you.

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Personally, I'd export it to QuickTime ProRes...

Do not do .DV files - those are DV Stream files for iMovie. If you want to do DV, use Quicktime with a codec of DV...

Patrick