Video rendering for canon 5d mark2 & software

[BenA2]

Originally Posted by CynthiaM

What format do you convert the video files to? I don't have this software to refer to (perhaps the answer is intuitively obvious if I had the software, but I don't) nor do I have a 5d or a 7d. But I am on Windows (7), have had a lot of trouble editing the mp4 clips that come out of a flip ultra hd, anticipate upgrading my canon 20d to a 5d markii or 7d and trying to keep a reference for myself of video editing suggestions so when I take the plunge it's not into the abyss of the windows blue screen.

Cineform Neo Scene transcodes the files into a Cineform H.264 AVI, which you should not have a problem editing on a descently-speced PC. When transcoding more compressed H.264 files, like those from the 5D/7D, this is a lossless, 10-bit format. Before you invest in Neo Scene and, if you are not already invested in an editor, you might look into using Pinnacle as your editor. Its users claim it can edit native 5D/7D .MOV files with no problem.

[CynthiaM]

Originally Posted by BenA2

Before you invest in Neo Scene and, if you are not already invested in an editor, you might look into using Pinnacle as your editor. Its users claim it can edit native 5D/7D .MOV files with no problem.

I saw that in the above posts and will keep it in mind, but I already have Premiere Elements which could not handle the mp4s that come out of a Flip Ultra HD and this is on a quad core i7, with 6gb of ram and an ATI radeon 4800 series video card with 1 gb of video ram. You would think that the computer could handle this, but in PREL it just choked; constant crashes and many blue screens. I think it was something with the software that did not want to play nicely with the computer. As was suggested on another forum (maybe the adobe forums??) I used mpeg Streamclip to convert the files to avi files so instead of crashing in 2minutes, it teased me and let me work for 20 minutes before crashing. But I have since seen numerous references to the Neoscene software so I'm thinking I might download the trial see if I can get its converted files to work with PREL. Perhaps the problem was the streamclip conversion?

[BenA2]

Originally Posted by CynthiaM

I saw that in the above posts and will keep it in mind, but I already have Premiere Elements which could not handle the mp4s that come out of a Flip Ultra HD and this is on a quad core i7, with 6gb of ram and an ATI radeon 4800 series video card with 1 gb of video ram. You would think that the computer could handle this, but in PREL it just choked; constant crashes and many blue screens. I think it was something with the software that did not want to play nicely with the computer. As was suggested on another forum (maybe the adobe forums??) I used mpeg Streamclip to convert the files to avi files so instead of crashing in 2minutes, it teased me and let me work for 20 minutes before crashing. But I have since seen numerous references to the Neoscene software so I'm thinking I might download the trial see if I can get its converted files to work with PREL. Perhaps the problem was the streamclip conversion?

Well, you definitely have the computer horsepower. Most of the people I've seen post about editing HD files that are using Premiere are using Premiere Pro, not Elements. So, I'm a little worried that might be part of the problem. But, before you get too worried about that, I think you're on the right path to try the trial version of Neo Scene and see how the Cineform codec works for you in Elements.