[Avid-L2] DSLR Footage in Media Composer 5

I've been testing MC5 over the last week or so, and I'll have a review to
post in a few days... But before that I've just had a little play and wrote
up a very quick outline of the workflow for Canon DSLR footage in MC5 -
including a very simple video of the process...
http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/avid/2010/avid-media-composer-5-in-a-dslr-world.html

I especially like the video ( http://vimeo.com/12314709 ) - less than a
minute from the beginning to putting clips on the timeline... In fact 46
minutes of footage from one card was indexed, linked and ready to go in
about 13 seconds. It took me less than three minutes to get 129 minutes of
footage from five cards into MC5 and ready to edit.

The H.264 performance is still pretty taxing on the computer, but I'm using
a fairly low-spec laptop for my tests (dual Celeron 1.6GHz with 4GB RAM,
integrated Intel GPU). When I'm not running other apps I can maintain
reasonable playback of a stream of Canon H.264 footage. Also, the transcode
performance is very good. A transcode of a 1:03 clip was completed in a
little under 2 minutes 30 seconds, whereas importing the same file directly
to DNxHD 120 took more than twice as long.

On a marginally more powerful computer it should be a very workable setup
and certainly the fast way to edit DSLR footage that I've used (although I
understand Premiere Pro CS5 and Vegas are also offering pretty good
performance).

I'm very impressed with MC5 overall, although I'm still struggling a little
to get used to the Smart Tool, I think it could still use a little
refinement :)

--
Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/

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