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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
