Canon t3i

Question

EOS Movie Plugin-E1
On Febrary 5th, 2010, Canon Inc. announced the launch of a new, completely free plug-in to be used with Apple’s Final Cut Pro (FCP) software. Once this plug-in is installed, it works in tandem with FCP software and can be called-up directly from the editing program's menu system.
I need to know if this plug-in will work with the Canon EOS Rebel T3i/600d.
I know the literature says the plug-in is for EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D, and the EOS 60D.  But I think the new T3i has the same file format as these cameras.  So will the plug-in work?
I called Canon, they said they think it will work, but asked me to check with you first. Thanks for you help.
Jay Hunt

Answer 1

Yep it works fine once you tweak the plist file. 
1. Download and Install Canon's driver software.  It doesn't include the T3i only higher end cameras.  So simply hack this file as shown below. You can copy and paste the text below in place and save it.  I used the Free Text Wrangler.
2. There is no step 2
The plist is at this location.
/Library/Application Support/ProApps/MIO/RAD/Plugins/CanonE1.RADPlug/Contents/Resources/cameras.plis t
Open and change to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>T3i</key>
          <array>
                    <string>Canon EOS REBEL T3i</string>
          </array>
</dict>
</plist>
Now save and close.  QED.  BTW there are endless scams out there selling conversion software.  You don't need it.  The nice thing is this reads from the card directly and saves the transcoded media as Apple Pro Res (you select which) to your scratch disk or storage drive.  No duplication of media.  The result is smooth and no stuttering on a FW 800 drive for me using a MBP i7 and 8 GIGs RAM using Pro Res 422.
Note: You are using FCPro.  You are reading from the card directly not dragging the files else where first!  You use 'Log and Transfer' in FCPro.
Note if you have other higher end Canon cameras simply add the strings to the current file rather than over writing.  If you only have a T3i it's easier to simply use the text above only.  If adding you would only add these few lines to the exisiting file along with the other camera profiles.:
  <key>T3i</key>
          <array>
                    <string>Canon EOS REBEL T3i</string>
          </array>
Enjoy