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Canon EOS 7D HDMI User Manual
Canon EOS 7D HDMI User Manual

Canon EOS 7D HDMI User Manual

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Canon EOS 7D HDMI
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Version 1.0
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  • Page 1: User Guide

    User Guide: Canon EOS 7D HDMI capture Version 1.0 Syndicate Entertainment AB www.syndicate.se Disclaimer: This document is provided without any guarantees or warranty. Any action taken, based on information in this document, is the sole responsibility of the reader.
  • Page 2: What You Need

    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.
  • Page 3 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 –...
  • Page 4: Capturing Video

    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.
  • Page 5 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.