I wanted to mess with what little video I shot Saturday down at the Pike Place Market. The unfortunate thing is that you need to transcode it to something that plays back smoother. Final Cut technically can use H.264 and then do whatever rendering necessary when you output the edit, but it's super slow. It also makes color grading not even remotely close to real time. So I transcode it to Apple ProRes, but it takes so long.
Apparently, this is why a lot of the video SLR fans are flocking to CS5, because the new version of Premier Pro can cut the native H.264 with great efficiency. I'm in no hurry to buy the upgrade, but it's pretty neat to hear.
And by the way, the Canon 7D records the video, 1080p24, at 45 mbits, which is crazy impressive.
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