From my experience it hasn’t been a good update so far:

1. Not all thumbnails are getting generated, if at all. 

2. When mounting a volume that still contains THM files, FCP crashes. 

3. It takes much longer to mount volumes (3 to 4 times as long)

4. Still getting the problem of not transcoding the entire clip.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  04/26  at  08:28 PM

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thanks for the notes lfcitz.

I didn’t get a crash on two machines that you are seeing in #2 but L&T wouldn’t mount those clips until I removed the thm files as I said in the post.

As for 3 I did see it taking quite a while on some volumes while others were very fast. Haven’t been able to try and determine why that is.

As for #4, someone on Twitter said this has been traced back to other processes and multitasking happening on your computer while the L&T plugin processes clips. Personally I’ve never seen it but try and leave the machine idle while it processes and see if that helps.

Truth told it feels like this plug-is is still a bit half-baked. Shame as you’d think a company like Canon could get it right.

Posted by Scott Simmons  on  04/27  at  09:02 AM

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If the L&T plug in assigns a TC to imported Canon movies, does this TC and reel no. get ‘striped’ on the originals? Or does it exist only on the ProRes transcodes?

Meaning, after L&T with this plug-in, one ends up with ProRes files with a certain TC and the originals with no TC. So you can’t use the originals in further stages of post.

Or am I not getting this right?

So far, I’ve always striped my originals (after making a backup copy) using Bouke’s utility. And then transcoded them for use either in FCP or Avid.

Posted by Neil Sadwelkar  on  04/27  at  10:10 PM

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@Neil - no the new timecode and reel metadata is not striped to the original h264 files. But once you have new ProRes files then you don’t need to go back to the original files anymore. ProRes is a much better, much more robust format for post, that’s what it was designed for. There are grading apps like Color or Resolve that can grade the h264s but despite a comment I’ve seen once or twice you don’t really gain anything by going back to them.

But you’re coronet on Bouke’s tool. It can be very handy.

Posted by Scott Simmons  on  04/28  at  03:48 AM

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I agree. Once converted to ProRes one need not go back to the H.264 movies.

However, often times, DoPs are a bit hard to convince that the conversion from H.264 to ProRes does not take away any latitude or resolution. So there is the occasional “Show me the original file”.

Besides, ProRes files won’t open in a Baselight (without Kompressor) but the H.264 originals do. TC striped H.264 originals conform perfectly in a Baselight.

So, one can stripe the H.264 originals with TC and reel info (with QTChange), convert to ProRes Proxy for editing, and then conform the EDL to the originals in a Baselight.

One can also import the H.264 originals (after striping) into a Media Composer, edit and make an EDL, and conform to the originals in a Baselight.

I’m not sure about this, but, Canon H.264 movies open fine in a Quantel IQ, and possibly in a Lustre and Linux Resolve, but ProRes files definitely do not.

I’m sorry this is probably completely OT in an article on the Canon EOS L&T plug-in.

Posted by Neil Sadwelkar  on  04/28  at  07:13 AM

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Ahhh, really good point Neil and not OT at all!

We have a Kompressor with our Baselight so we’ve always used ProRes but that’s a great point about Baselight w/o Kompressor and other grading tools.

Come to think of it I’ve cut native 7D H264 files in Premiere Pro and then sent that over to Apple Color which does a pretty good job with the H264s as well. I think I did that with Resolve for Mac as well. I think if you’re going to be using things like Bouke’s tools to assign timecode you’re probably not too concerned with the L&T plugin working anyway.

Posted by Scott Simmons  on  04/28  at  09:15 AM

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My Log & Transfer now crashes FCP every time I point it at the file folder containing a file from the 7D- doesn’t seem to matter whether the 7D files are on the hard drive as their own .mov files or on a card from the 7D. Crashed FCP every single time!

Posted by lightprismtv  on  04/29  at  05:53 AM

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It’s now crashing every time I try to mount a volume.  Anyone know how to manually uninstall the update.  I tried re-installing the first version, but it’s still crashing fcp.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  04/29  at  03:08 PM

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This just shows that you learn everyday.
<a >thanks</a>

Posted by verbrandencalorieen  on  05/03  at  12:22 PM

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