Canon EOS 7D HDMI user manual

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User Guide:
Canon EOS 7D HDMI
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Introduction The Canon EOS 7D is a great camera to film full HD material with. However, the material you get on the Compact Flash memory card is compressed using H.264 at a bitrate that might be to low for certain scenarios and with 4:2:0 chroma encoding, sometimes resulting in somewhat blocky primary colors. To the rescue is the HDMI output of the camera. The HDMI signal is a uncompressed 1080i signal at 60 Hz with 4:2:2 chroma encoding, giving a superior picture quality to the compact fla

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Go to the Capture Presets tab and scroll down until you find the first entry starting with ”Matrox MXO2 Mini – Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)”. Select it and click the Duplicate... button. A new window will open with the capture settings. Rename the preset to ”Matrox MXO2 Mini – 7D” and fill in an appropiate description. Then make sure the following settings are set. Frame Size: 1920 x 1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9) Digitizer: Matrox HDTV 1080 Input: Matrox MXO2 Mini 1080i 59.94 YUV 10-bit Compressor: Apple P

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In the QuickTime Audio Settings set the device to None. The Canon EOS 7D does not transmit audio over the HDMI cable so there is no point in wasting valuable processing power on audio. Specially if you are on a MacBook. Once this is done click OK on everything until you're back in regular Final Cut Pro. You'll never have to repeat these steps again once your preset is created. Capturing Video Start your Log & Capture as usual but make sure you don't capture audio. In Capture Settings set devi

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Processing the captured video The output from the final processing takes time and produces very large files. It is therefor recommended that you edit your film first and then only process the takes you really need to process. If you decide not to process the entire take file, but just a portion of that take make sure you add some head and tails to the clip or the interlace detection won't work. The processing will analyze the captured footage and extract the actual 24p or 25p footage from tha