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Dealing with DSLR footage seems to be a challenge for many people.  I’ve had several people ask already how to deal with it and seen several posts around the Internet about different, weird and complicated techniques for working with it.  And it’s actually extremely easy and fast to work with using a little program called Compressor.

Compressor is this nice little program that comes with Apples Studio package and it does exactly what you’d think.  It compresses, and is alone one of the main reasons to switch to a FCP if you haven’t already.  Compressor makes little files you can just drag and drop files onto and it will automatically compress them.

I’ve played around with the H.264’s that come out of my canon 5dmkII and editing them as is isn’t really practical even on a fast machine with a five disk raid.   So what I do is convert everything to a ProRes(HQ), and here’s how you do it with compressor. =-> See full article