Canon EOS 7D HDMI manual

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    User Guide: Canon E OS 7D HDMI captur e V ersion 1.0 Syndic ate Ent e rtainmen t AB www .s yndicat e.se Disclaimer: This document is pr ovided without any guarantees or warranty . Any action taken, based on information in this document, is the sole r esponsibility of the r eader .[...]

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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 memor y card is compressed using H.264 at a bitrate that might be to low for certain scenarios and with 4:2:0 chroma encod ing, sometimes resulting in somewhat block y primary colors. T o the rescue is the HDMI output o[...]

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    Go to the Captur e Pr esets tab and scroll down until y ou find the first entr y 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 m ake sure the [...]

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    In the QuickT ime 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 w asting valuable processing power on audio. Speciall y if you are on a MacBook. Once this is done click OK on ever ything until you're back in regular Final Cut Pro. Y ou'll never have to repeat t[...]

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    Processing the captured video The output from the final processing takes time and produces ver y large fi les. It is therefor recommended that you edit your film first and then onl y process the takes you really need to process. If you decide not to process the entire take file, but j ust a portion of that take make sure you add some head and tails[...]