Edius 5 & 5D footage at DVinfo.net

Mark Williams · March 29th, 2009, 04:59 PM

Anyone have any experience (good/bad) editing Canon 5D footage with Edius 5. What is you ingest process. Also, any experience with HDspark hmdi realtime output to HDTV.

Richard Hunter · March 29th, 2009, 11:23 PM

Hi Mark. The only practical thing I found I could do with the 5D2 footage is to put it on the timeline and render it out into Canopus HQ format. It is pretty slow though.

The Canopus AVCHD2HQ converter will not accept the Canon files because of the .mov extension. It looks like Canopus are reluctant to change the program because they have known about the issue since before the last 2 updates but still it doesn't work.

Procoder 3 will render the .mov files to full HD in around 0.6X realtime, which is a lot faster than doing it from the Edius timeline. This is my preferred way of working with the Canon files, convert them before opening Edius.

Richard

Mark Williams · March 30th, 2009, 10:43 AM

Thanks Richard, I appreciate the feedback.

Ervin Farkas · April 1st, 2009, 09:20 AM

I don't own a D5 but your discussion sparked my interest and I found some sample files on the internet.

Edius 5 is slow indeed in converting to HQ but I tested Procoder and it's about twice as fast, very close to realtime even on this oldish PC at work (dual core @ 2.13 with 1GB RAM).

Give it a try!

Mark Williams · April 1st, 2009, 11:26 AM

Thanks Ervin, thats good to know.

March 29th, 2009, 04:59 PM	#1
Mark Williams Trustee Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Deep South, U.S. Posts: 1,526	Edius 5 & 5D footage Anyone have any experience (good/bad) editing Canon 5D footage with Edius 5. What is you ingest process. Also, any experience with HDspark hmdi realtime output to HDTV. __________________ Mark videos: http://vimeo.com/channels/3523 Stock: http://www.pond5.com/artist/mark29

March 30th, 2009, 10:43 AM	#3
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April 1st, 2009, 09:20 AM	#4
Ervin Farkas Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta/USA Posts: 2,515	Try Procoder I don't own a D5 but your discussion sparked my interest and I found some sample files on the internet. Edius 5 is slow indeed in converting to HQ but I tested Procoder and it's about twice as fast, very close to realtime even on this oldish PC at work (dual core @ 2.13 with 1GB RAM). Give it a try! __________________ Ervin Farkas www.AtlantaLegalVideo.com

April 1st, 2009, 11:26 AM	#5
Mark Williams Trustee Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Deep South, U.S. Posts: 1,526	Thanks Ervin, thats good to know. __________________ Mark videos: http://vimeo.com/channels/3523 Stock: http://www.pond5.com/artist/mark29

March 29th, 2009, 11:23 PM	#2
Richard Hunter Trustee Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lipa City Batangas, Philippines Posts: 1,110	Hi Mark. The only practical thing I found I could do with the 5D2 footage is to put it on the timeline and render it out into Canopus HQ format. It is pretty slow though. The Canopus AVCHD2HQ converter will not accept the Canon files because of the .mov extension. It looks like Canopus are reluctant to change the program because they have known about the issue since before the last 2 updates but still it doesn't work. Procoder 3 will render the .mov files to full HD in around 0.6X realtime, which is a lot faster than doing it from the Edius timeline. This is my preferred way of working with the Canon files, convert them before opening Edius. Richard