As I've mentioned in another post, I'm trialing Pinnacle Studio HD 14 and it works pretty well with my 1280x720 HD H.264 clips direct from my Sanyo Xacti, I don't convert first.
No idea about the 7D, but it might be worth a trial. Dave. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Adam Quirk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I got a 7D at the beginning of the year and I'm still not comfortable with > my workflow. Hoping someone here has some experience with it. > > 1. Pull clips into my raw video folder using the EOS Utility that comes with > the camera. This works well. > > 2. Convert the 1080p h.264 clips to raw uncompressed AVIs with converter > software (I use AVS). This is mainly because Premiere won't import them as > is. Was hoping to find a preset online to download, but haven't seen one > yet. > > 3. Pull them down into the timeline and render the whole thing. If you don't > do this, it's pretty much unusably jerky. Even after this, it's not always > smooth. I have a powerful machine too. I find that if I disable the audio, I > can scrub the footage pretty smoothly, but that just means I have to disable > the video track when I want to cut to the audio. FML. > > 4. Cut, render, compress. > > So this is a bitch and a half, and I have been reading up on other people's > 7D workflows around the web, but 90% of them are on Macs. Has anyone here > been working with 7D footage on a PC? > > Thanks, > Adam
