I heard the 15th mentioned somewhere. Can't remember where...

Hahaha. I love the foot tapping. My birthday is the 20th, Canon. Please before then? Also, I would like a 70-200mm 2.8L coffee mug.

Hoping for the best regarding the plugin tomorrow. Maybe even a Final Cut Pro update to 7.1 64-bit support.


I can wish, can't I?

Today is the last day of what can be technically called "early March". So that danged plugin better be here by tomorrow! :)

Well, it's not early March anymore. I was thinking they were waiting on the 5DM2 firmware, but that's out now too.

Now that I'm looking around, all of the ads on Canon's site still talk about the 5DM2 firmware as "coming soon" just as the EOS plugin is "coming soon." I wonder if there is another area on the site we should be looking at for this? That's just hoping, though.

It makes sense to release the firmware and features on different dates. That provides two days of positive news cycles rather than one.

I don't think they're that cunning in their marketing. 'Positive news cycles' is a very American thing.

The concern is to get the update/plugin tested before it's released. Several people had the 5DII update for a couple of weeks before the release. When it tested successfully they released it.

The plugin is under development and will be available when it's ready.

Which is a little different than what their press release said about being available in early March. ;)

I'm not so sure. The posters for both 5D Mark II 24p firmware date announcements included the word "EPIC". And it was in a "RED" font.

Well, maybe that was a bit more cheeky than cunning. ;)

Yes, very true.

It seems the 2.0.3 firmware update has a minor audio glitch in it. Let's hope they haven't released the plugin because they're being thorough this time.

Well there is an ad agency involved and they have changed the game for RED and the entire industry. I'd play that up, wouldn't you ?

here is the new plugin

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Camera

choose ur OS and go!

Has anyone been able to download the plugin...looks like its not on the site right now.

I think it moved after the Canon redesign of their site. Here's a link to the FCP plugin. Just went to the camera, selected the operating system, and downloaded.

Canon U.S.A. : Professional Imaging Products : EOS 7D

I tried to import a 9 minute clip and it went successfully, but when I opened it in the viewer only 4 seconds was imported. Thankfully I didn't format my media card before discovering this.

I tried on a different batch of files from another card and some clips imported completely, but most didn't, and some just errored out. Right-clicking Retry on the error clips worked. The files that didn't import completely didn't give any indication anything was wrong.

This plugin is extremely unreliable and buggy. I hope Canon updates it soon.

Well, been using this plug-in for the last 5 months without any trouble!

How is your workflow Darryl? I always make a image copy of the card to disk before doing any log and transfer (L&D). Then you distribute this image to other disks for long time back-up.

Doing L&D from the card could have other issues than the software, bad connections, faulty cable etc.

I've had the same problem with the plugin truncating clips since it was released. I made a quick screencast about this problem today, and also the strange way that the EOS plugin renames re-imported clips.

Canon EOS Movie Plugin-E1 errors

Paul thanks for the screencast, that's a bit scary.

When this problem occurs are you doing the log and transfer directly from the card or are you backing it up first and creating a custom path?

I have not noticed that any of my clips are incomplete, but I have noticed the odd way it names the clip if you try to re-encode it. I guess they used this naming convention so that you don't overwrite clips with the same name and I have to admit this has probably helped me more the hurt me.

I think I might start using MPEG Streamclip again until this issue gets sorted out. I'm shooting so much that I can't afford the extra time it takes to check every clip as their transfered. I need to be able to trust that it works correctly 100% of the time.

Thanks again for the heads up.

Paul, very interesting findings you got there. I´m not aware that this has happened to me ever!
My workflow is to do the L&T after I have copied the card image to the hdd.

I will investigate and study this in future loggings, just to make sure that this is not of any issues at my place.

Just a note: has there been any update to the plug-in? In case I have a newer version than you got. I downloaded the plug-in in May some time this year.

Yep, the plug-in is a piece of crap.

That was a very informative and uplighting thread Liam :)

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I really think this is a widespread problem and many people are not aware that it is happening because the plugin gives no error indication.

After quite a bit of troubleshooting I think I discovered a workaround:
-In the Log & Transfer window, click the gear icon and select Preferences
-Click the 'Clear Logging Autofill Cache' and the 'OK'
(you should also uncheck Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames if you're not working with 24p).

That seems to have fixed the problem for me whenever there is a troublesome batch. I'm not sure how often you need to clear the cache.

I always ingest from hard drives. The files from the CF cards are copied on to my NVS2500 either on location or when I get home from a shoot and then copied from the NVS to my drobo's as soon as I get back to the mac.

Regarding the naming convention issue, it would make much more sense if the plugin renamed the clips by appending numbers to the end of the filename rather than totally changing the name. So, MVI_6380 would become MVI_6380_1.

updated plugin now available!
 

Canon just released an updated version of the plugin (their ears must have been burning):

Canon updates EOS E1 video plug-in: Digital Photography Review

downloading it now. not sure if it addresses the problem we've been having. hopefully it's faster!

As it's then I think you are downloading the old original version. There is no reference to bug fixes but only support for the newly announced 60D.

updated plugin now available:
EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro

There is no acknowledgement or mention of bug fixes to problems we have discussed on this thread.

I'm not even sure how to come up with a definitive test to determine if this upgrade works as it should. If anyone tries this upgrade please let us know how it works.

I hope they did more than add the 60D to the list.

What about the 550 / T2i?

Re: Canon EOS E1 Video Plug-In for Final Cut Pro
 

I've downloaded and used the last version of this plug-in (by the way, there's a new update now announced for april 24th), but it doesn't perform as promised. The description lists as one of the benefits: "create a disk image (DMG file) of the memory card that may be mounted and used for log and transfer operations in place of the physical card..."

But when I right-click over the mounted CF-card (as instructed), I do not get "Archive to disk image" among the choices in the pop-up menu. I use FCP 6.0.6 which should work perfectly with this plug-in. Any ideas what might go wrong here?

Re: Canon EOS E1 Video Plug-In for Final Cut Pro
 

I think that you must be right clicking on the wrong icon. You need to select hierarchical list view so that you can see the card name (NO NAME in my attached screenshot) then right click on that.

Re: Canon EOS E1 Video Plug-In for Final Cut Pro
 

Found how to get the 'hierarchic list view'. Now it works. Thanks a lot, Nigel.